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Hollywood truly is about to become Taylor's Version. Tickets went on sale Thursday for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, a nearly three-hour concert film based on the artist's most recent tour, and it reportedly sold about $37 million in tickets on the first day from the three biggest theater chains alone: AMC, Regal, and...Read more...

An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the company's founder Jeff Bezos and its board of directors for allegedly exercising bad judgement and not acting in good faith when selecting the launch providers for Project Kuiper.Read more...

A comet recently discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura is garnering attention from NASA and skywatchers alike.Read more...

Let's get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)

New research out this week is the latest to show that psilocybin-the active ingredient in magic mushrooms-can be a viable treatment for depression. The randomized Phase II trial found that a single dose of psilocybin combined with therapy significantly reduced people's depression symptoms when compared to placebo over...Read more...

You don't have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own utopian" metropolises, before-inevitably-everything goes to hell. Now several titans of Silicon Valley are hoping they can get their way with their own dream city that,...Read more...

If you've read Victor LaValle's 2017 novel The Changeling, you'll have a good idea of what to expect from Apple TV+'s new series. The adaptation starring LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo keeps mostly true to LaValle's pitch-black fairy tale-but not entirely, making some key changes that land with varying degrees of...Read more...

Hurricane Idalia barrelled through several states this week and could be the most expensive climate disaster in the United States this year according to analysts.Read more...

New Yorkers kicking back with beers and burgers this Labor Day weekend could have an unexpected guest hovering over their backyards. Starting Friday, the New York Police Department says it will dispatching drones to monitor potential disturbances at parties or other large gatherings. Privacy and civil liberty experts...Read more...

With the proliferation of generative AI, we've come to the point where technology has helped compound the sense of distrust in both media and politics that exploded during the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. Nobody is immune to deepfake suspicion, not even Trump himself.

Few could have predicted that Barbie would rule the summer, but we know exactly what's going to rule the fall. Welcome to the 2023 fall movie preview, io9's look at all of the sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, animation, and genre films coming to your eyeballs to close out the year. And while the season already lost a heavy...Read more...

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Brace yourself for the terrors of the Upside Down from Stranger Things and the clicker-infested post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood. io9 recently took a lights-on tour of both highly anticipated haunted houses at this year's spooky season theme park event.Read more...

Few filmmakers could ever, or would ever, release their new film without any promotion. But few filmmakers are Hayao Miyazaki who released his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, in Japan this summer without so much as a still image, let alone a trailer. It's coming to theaters in the U.S. later this year and now a...Read more...

August was a bumper month for Lego, bringing plenty of bricks for you to beat the heat with. September is an altogether quieter outing... that is, unless you like Star Wars, and a certain new Star Wars TV show on Disney+ in particular...

The threatened Pearl River darter (Percina aurora) has not been recorded in its namesake river for 40 years, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. But now, the service is attempting to reestablish the itsy-bitsy vertebrate in its native waters.

An outbreak of meningococcal disease in Virginia has sickened dozens of people and killed at least five, local health officials reported this week. Though severe cases are typically rare, the state has seen a noticeable increase over the past year. The bacterial infection is vaccine-preventable, and most cases during...Read more...

On August 17, there was an update on the Gen Con Card Heist. The persons of interest in the case-TJ Dunbar and Pearson Giaume-had been contacted by the police, according to a Tweet posted on X (formerly Twitter). The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department additionally said that the case is expected to presented...Read more...

There is somehow a Barbenheimer movie in the works. Could Hammer Studios make a return? Star Trek: Prodigy producer Aaron J. Waltke talks about bringing Voyager's Doctor aboard the show. Plus, more clips from the next Futurama. Spoilers, away!

Sony finally has a date for its so-called Remote Player" that's definitely not a handheld console. The $200 PlayStation Portal, the company's new Wi-Fi-only streaming device, is set to hit player's hands on November 15th, and now prospective players can pre-order the device from Sony's PlayStation Direct website.Read more...

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In order to contact its interplanetary spacecraft, NASA relies on an array of giant radio antennas spread across different parts of the world. The trusty communications network has been transferring data back and forth for more than 60 years but its antennas are currently operating at capacity, with an anticipated...Read more...

Playing full-featured PC games in the palm of your hand has long been a dream for PC gamers. Yes, there were expensive specialty machines that could do it, or you could try streaming to a handheld device via a cloud gaming service like GeForce Now, but it wasn't a mainstream, easy to use solution.

Lenovo introduced its first Windows gaming handheld device today, the Legion Go. The Steam Deck-like mobile console runs standard PC games on its compact display and has a pair of Nintendo Switch-like removable controllers. It also joins a few other Legion-branded products in the fanfare as the company unveils its...Read more...

Lenovo now has its own handheld gaming machine, called the Legion Go. Similar to the Steam Deck and Asus Ally, it plays PC games on the go. This version adds a unique twist in that its side controllers can pop off, much like a Nintendo Switch.Read more...

Two things are really shaking up Hollywood these days: labor unions and Taylor Swift. Thursday morning Swift announced that she was entering the fall movie season by releasing a nearly three-hour film based on her blockbuster Eras Tour. The news sent mobs of fans to online ticket sites and fear down the spines of...Read more...

Meta's Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like entity tasked with reviewing Facebook and Instagram's most contentious content moderation conundrums, is taking on a case involving a bizarre and unpleasant mashup: a Nazi Squidward meme.

Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models.

How perfect of a match was Harrison Ford's stunt double on the set of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? The stunt double could literally unlock Ford's phone with Face ID. This is just one of the fascinating, but not always essential, facts we enjoyed in a brand new making-of documentary.Read more...

Students, teachers, and vintage TV screencappers, the Chrome browser has a new feature that makes taking screenshots of scenes easier than before. Google used a blog post about helpful classroom tools to subtly announce the ability to copy a frame from a video. It's available in the latest release of Chrome and will...Read more...

NASA's trusty Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured images revealing a fresh crater on the Moon's surface. This crater is suspected to be the impact site of the ill-fated Luna 25 mission, Russia's first lunar attempt in nearly five decades.

Surgeons at New York University have reportedly reached another milestone in making pig-to-human organ transplants a reality. They now claim to have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney that has survived inside a human body for six weeks and counting-the longest period yet. It's likely that larger clinical...Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), one of the brightest supernovae in the night sky and the nearest observed in centuries, according to NASA.

Hollywood may be at a near-standstill due to the ongoing strikes, but AMC Studios has been granted waivers to resume work on three of its most high-profile shows. Interview With the Vampire and two of the Walking Dead spinoffs, Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live, will resume production under waivers granted by...Read more...

You can now include the Church of Scientology alongside big tech firms like Apple and tractor makers John Deere for groups that have opposed the right to repair.

In this week's episode of Ahsoka, the New Republic brings to bear its frustrating head, as Mon Mothma and a cadre of senators bullishly cast aside the fact they're sitting on a tinderbox of Imperial resurgence as the threat of Grand Admiral Thrawn offers a lit match. If only they could see, our heroes implore them as...Read more...

Humankind struggled to survive during a 100,000 year period during the early Pleistocene, according to researchers who used a computer model to discover a severe population bottleneck in our species' ancient past.Read more...

After that rather bedazzling cliffhanger that capped Chucky season two (I screamed, both in horror and fiendish delight), everyone's favorite killer doll has quite the path carved out for season three. Fans don't have to wait long to see WTF happens next: Chucky season three arrives October 4, and we've finally got a...Read more...

You've read the comics. You've seen the movie. Will you still be able to get something out of the new Netflix anime, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off? The answer, according to the show's creators, is a resounding yes. If you think you know what you're going to see, you don't," show co-creator BenDavid Grabinski told the Los...Read more...

Firefly Aerospace and its partner Millennium Space Systems have entered into the hot standby phase of Space Force's Victus Nox mission. The groundbreaking initiative aims to launch a satellite with a mere 24-hour notice, a capability that traditionally takes months-if not years.Read more...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is coming home soon-and while everybody loves the Turtles, for obvious reasons, this exclusive clip from the bonus features turns the focus on their adorably awkward human bestie, April O'Neil, who's voiced by Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth, The Bear, Abbott Elementary).

Well, chalk another victory up for the machines. After successfully beating humans in Chess, Go, and a variety of video games, AI has now beaten humanity's best drone racers. Three world champion drone pilots were recently defeated in a competition by an autonomous, artificial-intelligence-powered drone called Swift....Read more...

Tropical storm Idalia has made its way through several states since it made landfall yesterday and has moved on to North Carolina after leaving a trail of collapsed homes, flooded streets, and felled trees.Read more...

Two months before many users' initial Pixel Pass subscription was supposed to come due, Google is altering the nature of the agreement, canceling the service altogether, and letting customers loose with some discounted subscriptions and a $100 pity prize.Read more...

Grant Morrison is responsible for some of the greatest comics of the modern age, from their legendary turn on New X-Men, to the likes of Green Lantern, All-Star Superman, Doom Patrol, and many, many more. But after dipping into the world of prose fiction last year with their novel Luda Morrison is back in comics......Read more...

Picking up the trash in space could be as easy as stuffing pieces of defunct spacecraft into a giant bag, closing it up, and tossing the pesky space junk into an orbital recycling plant. At least that's what space startup TransAstra hopes to do with its inflatable capture bag.Read more...

The U.S. federal government is taking a significant step closer to becoming tolerant of cannabis. On Wednesday, a leaked letter from the U.S. Health and Human Services revealed that the agency has endorsed the rescheduling of the drug from a Schedule I to Schedule III controlled substance, a more lenient designation....Read more...

Lower Decks' third season brought with it a lot of great laughs, and a sincere, loving view of the Star Trek shows that came before it. But something felt off: its characters by and large stagnated, rehashing arcs they'd already gone on to reach a conclusion that was more of a reset than an evolution. Thankfully,...Read more...

Saw X director Kevin Greutert teases the film's approach to John Kramer. Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith get all spooky about trees in supernatural folk horror Starve Acre. Plus, behind the scenes on the return of The Nun. To me, my spoilers!

It's not every day that one of gaming's biggest companies releases what it hopes will be its next major franchise, but that day is almost here. Starfield, the latest from Bethesda Games, will be released next week, and it promises hours upon hours of space exploration, action, and excitement in the mold of Fallout and...Read more...