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If you're running the iOS 18 developer beta, you may have noticed your Android friends aren't the same green bubbles as they used to be. Carriers have been steadily rolling out RCS support on the backend, and plenty of iPhone-wielding folks have already reported decade-long feuds being solved due to Apple acquiescing...Read more...

So, uh, that happened. And that happened. And THAT happened as well. The fifth episode of The Acolyte brought a whole new level of action and chaos to the Star Wars universe, something one of the show's stars rightfully points outdoesn't happen enough in modern franchises.Read more...

It's been 20 years since director Robert Zemeckis unleashed a nightmarish CGI Tom Hanks on the world in The Polar Express. Now he's back with a new cinematic abomination.

Two NASA astronauts were preparing to exit the International Space Station (ISS) for a second attempt at a spacewalk, but it was once again called off due to a concerning malfunction with the spacesuit.Read more...

Three years ago, DC blew the lid off the comics industry with the launch of The Nice House on the Lake-a tense, gripping tale of isolation as a group of friends found themselves brought together to ride out the end of life as we know it, guided by an alien being masquerading as one of their closest friends. Now, the...Read more...

The live-action Transformers movies aren't really what you'd beloved." Despite making a lot of money, most of them aren't especially well-regarded critically, and fans of the original property don't exactly take to them well. They occupy a weird space in Hollywood wherein those initial five movies actively didn't...Read more...

The Fantastic Four, Marvel's most iconic superhero team, is finally coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and with them come a bunch of questions. Questions like Where the hell have they been for the last two decades as heroes like Iron Man and Black Widow dealt with Thanos and others?"Read more...

AMC has officially renewed Interview With the Vampire for a third season just days ahead of its ominously titled season two finale, And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else." The Anne Rice adaptation's third season will finally see Lestat enter his Queen of the Damnedphase. Nu-metal fans, rejoice.

Julian Assange became a free man on Wednesday Australia time (late Tuesday U.S. mainland time) after pleading guilty to espionage charges brought by the U.S. government in exchange for his freedom. And while it's unclear whether the WikiLeaks co-founder will restart his work publishing secrets anytime soon, Assange...Read more...

There's a lot of violence in Star Wars. But a lot of Star Wars' violence, and its approach to it, is rooted in the abstract-whole planets gone in the blink of an eye, grand battles in space and on the ground; even on smaller scales, its duels are less about the act of violence, and more chivalrous dances. But rarely...Read more...

In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration didn't do anything wrong when asking social media companies to remove posts full of misinformation.Read more...

People will do anything for attention. In the case of one guy, it appears that stiffing service workers all over Los Angeles is his thing. Yes, an anonymous influencer, who operates under the Instagram account @zerodollarstip, and the TikTok handle @idontip, has made it his entire mission to go to some of L.A.'s...Read more...

If you're not already backlogged on reading all the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books that are in line to be adapted (past io9 lists here, here, here, and here), get ready: we're about to add to the pile. Here are 10 more genre books coming to screens soon, a mix of familiar classics and recent best-sellers.Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago has affected women's contraceptive use for the worse, new research suggests. The study found that prescriptions of birth control and emergency contraception have declined significantly more in the states that passed the most restrictive abortion laws...Read more...

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Leslye Headland discussed her process conceiving this week's shockingly violent episode of The Acolyte: I think a good twist is telegraphing what's going to happen, and then once it does, executing it without an ounce of pity or sentimentality."

Mia Goth reassures us that all this waiting for Blade will be worth it. Get one last look at A Quiet Place: Day One in its final trailer. The Xenomorph waits in a creepy new look at Alien: Romulus. Plus, Finn Jones still wants to return as Marvel's Iron Fist. Spoilers, away!

Eagle-eyed observers might have noticed the change with today's announcement that Lanterns, a drama series based on DC's Green Lanterns characters, is officially getting an eight-episode series order at HBO. That's right: HBO at the forefront, instead of being labeled as a Max Original" for the oft-renamed HBO...Read more...

Samsung's next generation batch of devices is coming next month. The company has officially announced that Galaxy Unpacked will happen on July 10 at 6 a.m. PT/9 a.m. ET. The main event will be live-streamed and hosted from Paris, France, about two weeks before the opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympics. Samsung is...Read more...

Director Lee Isaac Chung's choice of Twisters as the follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Minari was surprising at first-but he's since spoken about why he pivoted from family drama to tornado-fueled action. He himself grew up in the storm-plagued midwest, and he was excited by the film's approach to science and the...Read more...

Update: June 25, 6:00 p.m. ET: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy successfully blasted off shortly before 5:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.Read more...

Would you feel more inclined to use Google's Gemini if you could give it a personality you vibe with? The Information reports that the search giant is working on a concept where the Gemini chatbot can be modeled in the style of a well-known celebrity or tuned otherwise to respond more affably and person-like.Read more...

Godzilla has a long and fruitful comics history-including at Marvel, with his legendary 70s series from Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe. He's gone to hell, battled ferocious beasts, he's teamed up with fellow heroes. He has, occasionally, been allowed to stomp the bejesus out of Superman. But it's that last one that...Read more...

Long before Stan Lee cameos became an ever-present Easter egg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the legendary comics creator, who passed away in 2018 at age 95, had his eye on appearing in an entirely different franchise.Read more...

An election worker in Maricopa County, Arizona has been arrested for allegedly stealing a digital magnetic key that can be used for accessing the county's vote-counting machines. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) held a press conference Tuesday that was light on details but stressed to the public that...Read more...

You can find a lot of weird shit for sale on eBay, including, apparently, a used police Harris Stingray that could allow you to intercept the cellular traffic of your friends and enemies.Read more...

Google's Pixel devices will launch earlier than Apple's iPhone this year. Google announced its annual Made by Google event will occur two months earlier than expected. It will take place Tuesday, August 13, at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and it's when we expect the company will reveal everything...Read more...

A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into accel" and decel". The accels want AI to progress rapidly - move fast and break things - while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of...Read more...

While much ado is made about Batman's iconic enemies being clever inversions of his own neurosis, or how the Flash's rogues are everyday career criminals who've deliberately rebranded themselves with a fun gimmick, it seems Aquaman's are rarely discussed in the same positive breath. We're here to make the case that a...Read more...

Patron announced on Tuesday on its blog that it will allow creators to gift limited-time subscriptions to their followers and other ways to monetize their platforms.Read more...

Herschel Guy" Beahm, better known by his popular streaming persona Dr. Disrespect, saw his lucrative Twitch channel suddenly go away four years ago with no specific reason given to the public. Former employees of the streaming company have come forward to give specifics on what happened.Read more...

It's halfway to Christmas and even so you're not ready to behold the confoundingly chaotic trailer for Red One. The Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson holiday action movie directed by Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) is set for release on November 15 from Amazon MGM.

Earlier this year, Lego and Lucasfilm lifted the lid on Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a what-if style Lego series that takes the already high-zaniness of many of the animated Lego specials and cranks everything up even further, in a world where heroes become villains, vice versa, and, of course, there's Jar Jar...Read more...

The east coast of the U.S. has been experiencing a punishing heat wave over the past week, with cities like Washington D.C. hitting 100 degrees and breaking all kinds of heat-related records. Combine that with the very real possibility that Donald Trump could be president again, and there's perhaps no better symbol of...Read more...

Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and director Shawn Levy discuss the long, difficult road to a third Deadpool moviein a new interview with Vanity Fair. According to Reynolds, These movies just swallow lives whole. In a normal movie, you work your ass off. But on a movie like this, you forsake a lot of things that you...Read more...

The future of weight loss is fast approaching. At a recent scientific conference, drug companies showed off a variety of next-generation drugs for both obesity and type 2 diabetes. Some of these treatments might help people lose even more weight than current forerunners like Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-the active...Read more...

Hello, Moto; this is starting to feel like deja vu. The return of the Razr flip phone in foldable form didn't set the world on fire as much as Motorola may have wanted last year with its Razr+ phone. Still, Moto's coming back in 2024 with a few improvements and the largest exterior screen we've seen yet on a flip...Read more...

As originally reported by Forbes, due to a high-severity vulnerability, Google has warned federal employees to update their Pixel devices before 4th July, or else they should stop using the device. This warning-CVE-2024-32896-is a part of the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog managed by CISA (Cybersecurity...Read more...

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has done a great many things since he formally retired from the world of his most legendary creation a few years ago (even some actual Hellboy here and there). But it's always fascinating to see when the writer/artist tries his hand at something new-and his next big step is a new universe...Read more...

The Cybertruck has some glaring problems aside from how ugly it looks. Elon Musk's new toy has been out in the public for a little more than six months and it's already getting its second physical recall, this time affecting more than 11,000 vehicles.Read more...

Jodie Comer teases the familiar camerawork of 28 Years Later. New footage from My Adventures With Superman teases Amanda Waller's plans for the Kryptonians. Plus, Tubi wants to split the world wide open with its new Earthquake horror. To me, my spoilers!

On February 3, 2023, a freight train owned by Norfolk Southern carrying thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. For days, flames engulfed the rail cars, which contained highly hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate, used in the production of...Read more...

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the duo who conceived the story for John Krasinski's A Quiet Place, then co-wrote the screenplay with him-they also co-wrote 2023 Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman-have a new tale of terror: Heretic. The villain is played by Hugh Grant, who's at a point in his career where he's not...Read more...

A man in Oklahoma City who used a fake Amazon van to transport pot has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). And it's a great reminder that while enormous industries have sprung up to sell cannabis for recreational use in nearly half of...Read more...

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been released from prison in the UK and will be allowed to return to his home country of Australia after he pleads guilty to illegally disseminating national security material in the U.S., according to a surprising new report from NBC News.Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con exclusive toy releases are beginning to roll out and Mattel's Jurassic World Hammond Collection has a winner right out of the (Jurassic) gate.

After all the brouhaha over re-casting the title characters of Rick and Morty for season seven, fans were relieved to find that not only were the new voices seamlessly integrated-the episodes themselves proved the show was just as funny, rude, and incisive as ever. So what's next for the Adult Swim staple?Read more...

Bad news for Paramount+ viewers: Your subscription prices are about to go up again. The higher prices, which were announced this week and are set to take effect later this summer, are yet another example of the streaming industry's unfortunate habit of bilking TV customers for everything they've got.Read more...

The members of the Theatre des Vampires have captured Claudia (Delainey Hayles), Louis (Jacob Anderson), and Madeleine (Roxane Duran) with the help of Armand (Assad Zaman), to be put on trial for the murder of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) in a very special production.Read more...

Fossil's latest fire sale, which seems to have sold out since 9to5Google reported on it, is yet another rendition of a deal that's too good to be true. It feels like a good time to remind you that unless you're purchasing an old smartwatch for archival purposes, a deal like the $80 Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch is not worth...Read more...

A family from Florida filed a claim against NASA for a small piece of trash that the space agency had tossed from the International Space Station (ISS), which ended up in their home.Read more...