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Tropical storm Harold made landfall over Southern Texas earlier today, making it the first storm to reach the continental U.S. in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.Read more...

Easily qualifying as the worst thing I can remember reading lately, a terrifying new report from the New York Times claims that near collision" episodes involving commercial airlines are basically a weekly occurrence in America. The Times report draws on extensive records sourced from the Federal Aviation...Read more...

Experian Consumer Services was ordered to pay a $650,000 civil penalty on Monday for allegedly sending consumers commercial emails without providing the option to unsubscribe from future emails. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that Experian had violated the CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of...Read more...

I'm a Grant Howitt stan, so when Rowan, Rook & Decard announced their newest endeavor, Eat the Reich, I was already in line and taking notes. This game will get a longer feature from io9 later in the week, but the quick pitch is sexy, over-the-top vampiric ultraviolence in the 1940s as you fight and bite your way...Read more...

Atari is again testing how many times users are willing to pay for that nostalgic, faux woodgrain-paneled game console, this time coming out with what seems like the most detailed recreation of its original Atari 2600 console since it first debuted close to 46 years ago. The recreated console will even play the old...Read more...

Behold the ambitious worlds being built by Zack Snyder in our first look at Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire. Netflix is doubling down on its own Snyderverse with two movies shot back to back, inviting audiences along for a ride beyond the stars in a new original galactic franchise.

Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine has destroyed infrastructure and displaced about 5 million people from the country since last spring. The country's conservationists have also noticed that the war is killing endangered Black Sea dolphins and harbor porpoises.

One of the first 5e adventure supplements ever released, The Lost Mines of Phandelver has remained a fan favorite for the past decade of the game. Now, Dungeons & Dragons has released more information for the newest adventure supplement.Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk returns to the town of Phandalin as...Read more...

Netflix's DVD subscription platform will allow subscribers to keep their final delivery of DVDs as the company prepares to close its 25-year-old service, the company announced on Monday. In April, Netflix confirmed it will be shutting down its DVD mail order option, telling existing customers in a Twitter post last...Read more...

India's space agency is gearing up for a lunar touchdown, hoping to stick the landing this time after a failed first attempt nearly four years ago.Read more...

Meta took a step towards a universal language translator on Tuesday with the release of its new Seamless M4T AI model, which the company says can quickly and efficiently understand language from speech or text in up to 100 languages and generate translation in either mode of communication. Multiple tech companies have...Read more...

Our feelings on the two-episode premiere of Ahsoka are clearly on display in the show's opening moments. Creator/writer and episode one director Dave Filoni starts his story in a way Star Wars fans will find both familiar and delightful. Finally," you may think. Someone who gets it." But then you realize the crux of...Read more...

Tech giant Microsoft's acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard continues to be a headache. After facing some back-and-forth over antitrust concerns with the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft is now selling the rights to Activision's cloud gaming services to video game publisher Ubisoft in a bid to...Read more...

It's been a long time since Frozen 2, and it's going to be an even longer time still until Disney is able to do anything about its plans for a third entry in the series. So... why not podcasts?

Meta announced it is implementing new transparency measures" on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by August 25. The measures will reportedly include archiving all targeted ads for users in the EU in its existing Ad Library...Read more...

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Gareth Edwards dives into his vision for The Creator. One familiar face may not return for Scream 7. Plus, creepy new looks at a bunch of new indie horror films. Spoilers, away!

Twitter owner Elon Musk seems to think his site would look a lot better without any helpful, descriptive headlines that describe users' posted links. This is also the man who still thinks that dull X" logo represents his new brand, so that's not saying much about Musk's overall aesthetic taste.Read more...

Elon Musk's Twitter (now known as X) is going great! After news broke that a glitch caused most of the platform's content from 2014 and before to be scrubbed, the company released an update claiming that the bug has been zapped.Read more...

After rumors of an incoming web version of Meta's struggling Twitter-clone Threads, the web app for the social media platform is now live.Read more...

Babies' and toddlers' access to more screen time could lead to developmental risks, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics (JAMA) on Monday. The study, conducted by researchers in Japan looked at the amount of time 7,097 children spent on tablets, phones,...Read more...

After working with writer Scott Snyder on the dark apocalyptic horror of Nocterra, artist Tony S. Daniel is taking on both writing and art duties for his next creator-owned comic-a fantastical war for the safety of America between witches and demons.Read more...

From the time I knew what intersections were, I said my family lived at the crossing of Inwood Road and Preston Road in North Dallas. I asserted that fact certainly for the better part of a decade. Then I found out those two roads ran parallel to each other. Then we moved to a different house. I did eventually learn...Read more...

What's this? A new book about the making and impact of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, just in time for spooky season.

School is back in session and if there's still fandom gear to check off your shopping list, io9 has you covered.Read more...

The goofy, deadpan performances of Barbie obviously work on screen, but what were they like to film? Well, a new video has surfaced thanks to Atlantic Records answering that question and more. It's a full music video for the film's standout chart-topping bop I'm Just Ken" by Ryan Gosling, but it's filled with behind-...Read more...

Been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 and found yourself thinking god, I love all of these Dungeons & Dragons characters in this Dungeons & Dragons video game. What if I simply played them in Dungeons & Dragons?" Well, the good news is that Wizards of the Coast and Larian have made that even more absurdly easy than...Read more...

US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app. That's according to a draft of a deal between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) obtained by Forbes...Read more...

The summer of foldables has started fizzling out, and now we're moving on to the next batch of flagship phones. Google's Pixel 8/8 Pro is expected to be the next major Android smartphone release this fall. And it might be Google's first eSIM-only smartphone. Apple went eSIM-only with the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro...Read more...

It might only take 22 people to establish a colony on Mars, though that small group of cosmic inhabitants should have agreeable personality types to survive on the Red Planet, according to new research.Read more...

Even with the inclusion of collectibles from the Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Hello Kitty back catalogs, the NFT platform Recur is calling it quits after several years of pumping the internet full of monetized images of The Godfather's similarly ineffective Fredo.Read more...

What we've seen so far of Ahsoka seems promising, especially for fans of Star Wars Rebels waiting to see just what is up with those characters after the events of the show. But something has been missing: a spark, an energy, a little frisson of silliness and personality. That something is Chopper, and, at long last, a...Read more...

The Writers' Guild of America West has released a 15-page report on the big three streaming services, outlining exactly how far each one has gone to preserve and maintain their monopoly in the space. The three companies at the heart of the report are Disney, Amazon, and Netflix. All three of these streaming services...Read more...

850 people are currently still missing in Maui, more than two weeks after the fires first sparked, Maui County's Mayor Richard Bissen said.Read more...

Montana's lawsuit-hungry attorney general Austin Knudsen wants US courts to think of TikTok less like a light-hearted home for viral trends and more akin to the harbinger of a life-threatening disease. In recent court filings defending his state's unprecedented ban on the short-form video app, Knudsen compared TikTok ...Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two primary imagers, revealing the gaseous formation in never-before-seen detail.Read more...

X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only offered to/forced on premium Blue" subscribers, asks users to fork over a selfie and a picture of a government issued ID to...Read more...

The biggest complaint about seeing a movie in theaters these days is that it's too damned expensive. And for 364 days in a year, that's true. But for one day, one magical day, movie costs come down so low, you'd think it you'd traveled back in time 50 years, and that day is coming soon.Read more...

It's a scarily good time to be a fan of horror TV, with Chucky recently revealing its season three premiere date, and now Shudder's Creepshow anthology series announcing its own return. Season four of Greg Nicotero's George A. Romero-inspired series drops Friday, October 13 on Shudder and AMC+.Read more...

YouTube is embracing the future of artificial intelligence in the music industry by creating a YouTube Music AI Incubator to protect" artists and their work, the company said in a press release on Monday. The streaming platform partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to launch the Music AI Incubator, working...Read more...

With Samsung pouring its marketing money into its latest foldable phones, the company is trying to snatch up potential iPhone 15 customers by showing them all the fun and weirdness of using two screens, so long as they have an additional iPhone on hand and they're easily distracted by playing a dull game of air hockey.Read more...

The point of BeReal is simple: Keep your circle tight. The app where most accounts are private and users can only post once a day is unveiling a new Friends of Friends feature that allows users to explore what people they kinda know are up to.Read more...

Tropical storm Hilary swept over Baja California and up into Southern California this weekend, flooding roads and felling trees. This is the first tropical storm to hit the state in over 80 years, the Associated Press reports.Read more...

The Hubble Space Telescope is no spring chicken, having operated in space for over 30 years. But the veteran observatory soldiers on. It recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster that could hold secrets about both dark and ordinary matter.Read more...

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As the streaming era devolves into a wave of cutbacks, consolidation, and the removing of original content for the sake of tax breaks, it's become more important than ever that physical releases of streaming original media offers a legal path to people still being able to actually access that content. Thankfully,...Read more...

The Luna-25 mission crashed on the surface of the Moon this weekend, ending Russia's quest to prove it still has what it takes to land on the lunar surface.Read more...

Could a fifth Thor movie really be on the way? Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is getting ready to celebrate Life Day. Al Gore strikes back in new Futurama pics. Plus, what's coming on Riverdale's final episode. To me, my spoilers!Read more...

Tesla's data breach in May, which affected more than 75,000 people, was an inside job, the company said in a notice released to its customers on Friday. According to the notice, German news outlet Handelsblatt informed Tesla of the breach on May 10 after obtaining the confidential information.Read more...

Nintendo has announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Charles Martinet, who has been the video game voice actor for Mario since 1991, is retiring. He will be stepping into a new role" of Mario Ambassador.Read more...