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If you're looking for a mysterious, fun, and rewarding sci-fi show to add to your watch list, may we suggest Silo on Apple TV+? Yes, we know it came out a few months ago. But there's so much TV out there these days that sometimes it takes a while to hear enough good things before you finally devote the time to a new...Read more...

On TikTok, between the get ready with me" videos, life hacks, and memes, a few robots are working on a challenge that many of us have faced at some point in our lives: beating Super Mario World. Over the past week, users have been live streaming an AI's attempts to learn to play Mario, and for one robot in particularRead more...

Not all who wander are lost, but some of those who wonder" do... lust?" Well, at least according to Apple, fans do seem to lust after whatever next product is coming down the road from its headquarters at 1 Infinity Loop. Now, the company is finally ready to share details about its upcoming iPhone 15 lineup, its Apple...Read more...

Lupita Nyong'o, an accomplished actress who starred alongside the late Chadwick Boseman in the Marvel franchise, Black Panther, posted a tribute to the actor on Instagram. Three years ago Boseman tragically passed away from colon cancer, a medical event that he kept extremely private up until his death. Boseman...Read more...

A team of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists working in northern Peru's Cajamarca region have found the 3,000-year-old remains of a man they believe was a priest for the area's temples.

India is getting ready to launch its first mission to the Sun, switching its attention to Earth's host star after finally touching down on the Moon less than a week ago.Read more...

The world of the Massive-Verse's hottest hero is expanding: Inferno Girl Red, Mat Groom and Erica D'Urso's superhero comic series, has returned to Kickstarter for the second chapter of her journey, and io9 has a look at what fans can expect for the young hero.

Florida officials are warning state residents that more than two dozen gas stations may have sold contaminated gasoline, as communities prepare themselves for incoming Hurricane Idalia later this week.Read more...

Google's DeepMind says it has cracked a problem that has vexed those trying to verify whether images are real or created by AI. Researchers proclaimed their new watermarking SynthID format can be used to pinpoint AI-generated deepfakes without distorting the image's original quality. The catch is that the program...Read more...

Ahsoka has landed, and with it, a veritable pathway to an extragalactic bounty of merchandise. And maybe Grand Admiral Thrawn. But mostly merchandise! To celebrate the launch of the new Star Wars series, io9 has got your first look at some of the new-old Ahsoka toys that will be hitting shelves soon.

Another day, another company executive blowing more hot air-the CEO of one of the world's largest companies is coming after those pesky remote workers. Amazon CEO Andy Jassey has threatened remote workers with termination if they don't return to the office, saying there's no more room for disagreement.Read more...

The United States Transportation Department (DOT) fined American Airlines $4.1 million on Monday for keeping passengers on board amid delays that violated tarmac delay laws. The DOT found that 43 flights were affected between 2018 and 2021, leaving passengers on board planes for extended ground delays, without...Read more...

The Alien TV series has paused production. Ahsoka's credits sequence teases some mystery new planets. Another day, another creepy American Horror Story poster. Plus, get a look at what's coming on the What We Do In The Shadows season finale. Spoilers, away!Read more...

Apple is currently at the top of the heap of smartphones, at least in terms of the number of phone shipments. But for its next go around with the iPhone 15, the Cupertino, California-based tech giant is expected to ship more of its most expensive smartphone edition than any other version, according to a well-known...Read more...

In response to a lawsuit against his private space venture for employment discrimination, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called out the Department of Justice for its own hiring policies.Read more...

Update: August 29, 8:13 a.m. ET: ULA announced last night through an emailed statement that the launch has been postponed indefinitely because of the approaching Hurricane Idalia, which was just recently upgraded from a tropical storm and is expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday morning. ULA also said in...Read more...

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which it says is specifically designed for businesses. We believe AI can assist and elevate every aspect of our working lives and make teams more creative and productive," the company said in a blog post published Monday. Today marks another step towards an AI assistant for...Read more...

Miss the horniness of Interview With the Vampire? Regret letting the prequel vibes of Fear the Walking Deadpass you by? Want another spin on a bike with Norman Reedus? Well, all of that and more is coming to Max in a brand new deal.Read more...

David Ayer has made a few features since 2016-including 2017 Netflix fantasy Bright-but the one his name is most associated with is another Will Smith-starring release: Suicide Squad, which five years after its release got a sort of sequel/do-over from James Gunn titled The Suicide Squad.Read more...

It's just a pun that got really out of hand," award-winning game designer Grant Howitt said as he attempted to explain the inspiration behind Eat the Reich. Last year, sometime around Gen Con, as he was on some plane ride or another from Indianapolis to England, probably sleep-deprived, definitely exhausted, he...Read more...

When rich people start buying up land, it's always disturbing. If and when those same people start telling you that they're going to use the land they've bought to make the world a better place, it's only natural to feel certifiably creeped out. Unfortunately, this is what's been happening in northern California,...Read more...

Hawaiian Electric Company, the electric company that was sued by Maui last week, responded to the lawsuit over the weekend. In the official response, the company also faulted local firefighters for leaving the scene of the fire too early.

Ahsoka is a show that culminates years of effort on the behalf of Lucasfilm to try and build a bridge between the animated work that kept Star Wars going after the movies seemingly came to an end after the prequels, and the live-action television that has sustained it in the modern era. But for all its attempts, its...Read more...

Foxconn is selling off two of its large facilities in Wisconsin after years of neglected promises to bring thousands of jobs to Eau Claire and Green Bay. The Taiwanese manufacturing company has pivoted from one potential production idea to the next since it broke ground in 2017 and gave then-President Donald Trump an...Read more...

Nothing's not done with this summer's product releases, even after revealing the Nothing Phone (2) and bringing Nothing OS 2 to the Phone (1). Just this month, the company launched its CMF brand that CEO Carl Pei promised is focusing on accessibility and affordability. Now details for CMF's first slate of...Read more...

It's been less than a week since India's Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first to touch down on the Moon's south pole, and its lander is wasting no time collecting valuable data from the unexplored region.Read more...

Many students have no choice about working with the College Board, the company that administers the SAT test and Advanced Placement exams. Part of that relationship involves a long history of privacy issues. Tests by Gizmodo found if you use some of the handy search tools promoted by College Board's website, the...Read more...

One of the greatest chess dramas of the 21st century hasn't ended with the bang of a chess-cheating vibrator hitting the floor but with the whimper of an arbitration agreement. On Monday, Chess.com and young chess prodigy" Hans Niemann reached a settlement that will end the chess player's $100 million lawsuit in...Read more...

Andrew Bowser's cult-fave TikTok character Onyx the Fortuitous has finally made it to the big screen after a successful indie campaign, and the feature, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, will hit theaters in time for Halloween.Read more...

Popular crypto industry news outlet CoinDesk has retracted a pair of opinion articles criticizing the founder of the cryptocurrency TRON and the head of US investigations at Chainalysis, a company specializing in financial analysis and forensics of crypto. CoinDesk claims the articles were removed because they...Read more...

The company known for squeezing every last drop out of its customers and workers is coming back for more. Amazon announced that it's raising its minimum amount for free shipping for non-Prime members from $25 to $35.Read more...

Over a century of making and releasing movies, Warner Bros. has put out some of the best and most popular movies of all time. Films like Casablanca, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Exorcist, Superman, Batman, Goodfellas, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and Justice League, just to...Read more...

The new Disney+ Star Wars show Ahsoka immediately drops you into the action. After a crawl setting up the story, we meet two evil Force users on a rescue mission before moving to the title character who is on the hunt for a map. There's no time here for a detailed backstory. It's full speed ahead from the very first...Read more...

Just three weeks after 52 visual effects workers at Marvel Studios announced they had filed a unionization vote with the National Labor Relations Board, 18 more internal VFX employees at Marvel parent company Disney have now also moved to form their own union, indicating a growing sea change in the demands of the...Read more...

The second supermoon of the month will rise this Wednesday, August 30. It will be even closer to Earth than the first supermoon of the month, the so-called Sturgeon Moon that rose on August 1.Read more...

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Flights in the UK were severely delayed or canceled on Monday following a technical issue" impacting more than 500 flights. The technical problems have since been resolved, but passengers are still impacted by the delays and cancellations, prompting many airlines to try to rebook passengers on flights for later this...Read more...

A revolutionary satellite is preparing to take to the skies, viewing the hidden parts of cosmos in a new light to reveal stellar explosions and powerful jets streaming from supermassive black holes.Read more...

Android is lagging hard behind iOS for emergency satellite connectivity, and Google may be reaching out to Garmin to enable some kind of emergency SOS feature.Read more...

After 10 years, Futurama fans are back to getting a fresh weekly dose thanks to Hulu's revival of Matt Groening's animated sci-fi series. To learn more about what's going on behind the scenes, io9 got a chance to conduct an email interview with Futurama producer Claudia Katz, who's been with the show from the very...Read more...

The Atlantic hurricane season is in full swing as two storms, one in the Gulf and one on the Atlantic coast, have recently intensified, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

Speaking to Empire, Denis Villeneuve has said that there are words on paper," for a third Dune film. He's been talking about continuing the story beyond Dune: Part Two since 2021, but this is the first time he's said anything further on the subject.Read more...

It seems Elon Musk isn't very popular in the video game community, at least not among the gamers who gathered for the Valorant World Championship Final in Los Angeles on Saturday. During the event, the camera briefly panned to Musk, who was attending the tournament with one of his sons, as reported by Insider. ...Read more...

Tesla has certainly been overly ambitious in advertising an Autopilot feature that doesn't really work, and now it's facing legal ramifications over its cars' self-driving capabilities. The company is in the middle of two lawsuits, with trials scheduled for this fall, over crashes that allegedly involved Autopilot...Read more...

The Polish Railway's radio system was hacked on Friday and Saturday, bringing 20 freight and passenger trains to an unprecedented standstill. The hack, believed to be carried out by Russia, took advantage of a critical flaw in the railway's radio security system, with the issue reportedly restored within hours.Read more...

Ahsoka drops a few new posters for its droid heroes. Get a first look at Our Flag Means Death season 2, and Wolf Like Me's return. Plus, another mysterious teaser for American Horror Story: Delicate. Spoilers now!

With all the hubbub surrounding the upcoming iPhone 15 this year and talk of next year's MacBook Pros, what's missing from the picture is any mention of the long-suffering iPad, specifically the iPad Pro. However, next year the tablet could finally receive upgrades that would put it in line with current iPhones and...Read more...

Next week, the live-action adaptation of One Piece finally sets sail, and it wouldn't be wrong to say it has a lot to live up to. Eiichiro Oda's shonen series has grown in popularity (and length) over the years, and this show is coming off the back of a recent theatrical movie and some substantial events that have...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduced audiences to a whole plethora of Spider-heroes they may not have otherwise heard of, and one of the most prominent of the bunch was Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk. Voiced by Daniel Kaluuya, the Black Brit spider quickly became a fan favorite due to his stylized look and...Read more...

Earlier in the week, Zack Snyder released the first trailer for his sci-fi epic, Rebel Moon. Like with his time at DC and his other Netflix movie Army of the Dead, the director's got plans in store for Rebel Moon that go beyond the two-part movie hitting later this year and in 2024. And perhaps unsurprisingly, that...Read more...