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Dungeon Masters Guild, a subsidiary of OneBookShelf and the largest digital third-party Dungeons & Dragons marketplace, officially announced a policy change that would restrict the sale of standalone" AI-generated products. Additionally, it is enacting a Creation Method Filter" which requires sellers to indicate if...Read more...

TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The new shopping experience is a new attempt by TikTok to compete with Shein and Temu, two Chinese companies dominating the online retail scene with fast...Read more...

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Stop us if you've heard this one before, but David Gordon Green and Blumhouse are reviving an iconic horror franchise with a fresh reboot-sequel saga that tells a new re-treading of classic ground but doesn't quite cast away a history of messy sequels. Oh, and this time it's The Exorcist rather than Halloween.

Sotheby's is selling a limited edition pair of Omega Sports Apple Computer Sneakers from the 90s in new condition for the exorbitant price of $50,000. The shoe was distributed at an Apple event but was never made available to the public, making it a highly coveted item.Read more...

The next Samsung Unpacked event will come alive July 26 at 7 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT, with the company hosting a live event at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. At the same time, Unpacked should be livestreamed on the company's website and YouTube channel. Based on the artwork for the event (and online rumors and...Read more...

Ryan Reynolds wants to bring back the Biker Mice From Mars. Meet Ice Cube'sTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem villain. Gamera gets ready to rumble in a new look at Netflix's latest Kaiju anime. Plus, what's coming on Riverdale. Spoilers now!

Waste is sort of the thesis statement of modern economics, and big tech is no different. Google recently published its 2023 Environmental Report which sheds some light on its water consumption-and a more aggressive foray into artificial intelligence could make it worse.

Despite Elon Musk's intentions to rebrand the bird app into a dull, bland, easily copied X," the billionaire tech mogul might have a few roadblocks standing in his way since every company under the sun has already called dibs on the letter. There are hundreds of companies with a trademark on X," and many could be...Read more...

Movie stars make millions, but many working actors struggle to make ends meet-an issue that's gotten more awareness thanks to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. While union members fight Hollywood studios for fair contracts, one of the most famous performers in the world is sharing some of his good fortune.Read more...

A new report suggests that the lax content moderation policies of Mastodon and other decentralized social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Stanford's Internet Observatory published new research Monday that shows that such decentralized sites have serious shortcomings when it...Read more...

Last year's loss of fan-favorite actor Jason David Frank was a blow to us all. His commitment to not just his star-making role on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, but his love and passion for the pop culture community at large, was truly unique and special. Now, we get a chance to celebrate that with what's being sold as...Read more...

Sam Bankman-Fried's legal defense tried to convince a judge nothing improper or impermissible occurred" last week when the disgraced crypto founder leaked former Alameda Research CEO and on-again-off-again girlfriend Caroline Ellison's personal diary to The New York Times. The former FTX CEO's defense says the leaked...Read more...

Another San Diego Comic-Con is in the books, and this year was perhaps one of the weirdest in recent history-even counting those @Home" years. As the lack of major attendees and the lingering shadows of Hollywood's labor movement saw a more muted Hall H at San Diego this year, earth-shattering nerd news wasn't to be...Read more...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has moved on to receive his blue belt in jiu-jitsu ahead of his alleged cage match with Twitter, renamed X, owner Elon Musk. Zuckerberg revealed his achievement in an Instagram post on Sunday, moving one step up from a white belt since he started jiu-jitsu training during the covid-19 pandemic.Read more...

During the Women of Marvel" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, fans got to learn more about the upcoming comicMs. Marvel: The New Mutant, written by Iman Vellani-star of Marvel Studios' Disney+ seriesMs. Marveland upcoming feature The Marvels.Read more...

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Superspeed is a difficult power to portray in superpowered adaptations. There are almost as many ways to portray superhuman agility as there are movies that have attempted it, from dilated time to blurs of vision. And yet, as more and more speedsters race to the big-budget world of the Hollywood blockbuster, none have...Read more...

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TikTok is bringing text posts to its Camera page in a format that's much like Instagram's stories. Users can choose from a photo option, video, or text. The company announced the updated feature in a news release on Monday.Read more...

The prominent astrophysicist and musician Brian May is co-authoring a three-dimensional atlas of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, an 85-million-ton hunk of rock orbiting the Sun.Read more...

While the annual pop culture event felt a little different this year, cosplay was still out in full force at SDCC 2023-io9 spotted Spider-sonas from Spider-Verse, Marvel personalities, mother of movies Nicole Kidman, DC icons, anime faves, and more. Here's our gallery of day four cosplay to close out on the comics...Read more...

Marvel fans: are you concerned about about recent spate of high profile removals of original content on Disney+, and that those feelings of nothing being safe from being erased from legal accessibility for a tax cut aren't going away soon? Well, why not buy... an empty WandaVision case that comes with no copy of ...Read more...

Have you ever watched The Boys and thought, where do these characters learn all this stuff? If you have, great. If you haven't, it doesn't matter: you're getting the answer anyway. It's called Gen V and it comes to Prime Video on September 29.Read more...

A satellite in geostationary orbit ran into some trouble when the device meant to position its solar arrays towards the Sun malfunctioned, preventing it from being fully charged. As a result, the internet satellite will not be able to fulfill its primary goal of providing continuous connectivity to Alaska.Read more...

Sony may sometimes struggle with giving its products memorable names, but at the same time, calling its new flagship wireless earbuds the WF-1000XM5 is kind of a major flex. They are astoundingly good, and their sound quality and ANC performance are more than enough to sell the earbuds without any clever branding....Read more...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sci-fi-tinged, iris-scanning cryptocurrency project Worldcoin began rolling out services internationally today. The extent to which Worldcoin actually delivers on its promise of a new global digital currency," however, may vary dramatically depending on where users are located.Read more...

Barbie and Oppenheimer opened this weekend, and crossing theater aisles for both films was a cultural phenomenon; Barbenheimer. Double-billing both films may not have been most people's cup of tea (and, frankly, I would not recommend it) but both films resonated with audiences, bringing in a total of $511 million...Read more...

If you're too impatient to wait for your gaming space to inevitably become infected with the odor of stale pizza, Xbox has you covered.

After being split into two volumes' of episodes, The Witcher is back for a gut-wrenching season 3 finale. As Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, and Jaskier fight for the future of the Continent, elves, mages, and monsters clash across the fields of battle.

Spotify announced on Monday that it's raising the cost of the premium subscription in the U.S. for the first time in 12 years. It said the increased prices are in response to an evolving market landscape," and to give Spotify cash so it can keep innovating," the company said in a news release.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the coolest toy news around the internet. This week, Playmates ensures that the horrors persist with an update to its classic 90s TMNT figures, The Marvels takes flight in Lego form, Hasbro rolls out even more Transformers: The Movie goodness. Check it out!Read more...

Tired of that lovely bird song, Musk has smothered the cage housing Twitter's classic bird logo. The site is still called Twitter," microblogging posts are still called Tweets" but the little blue bird logo appearing in the top corner of the site for over a decade has become a big, bland, black X."Read more...

Although it had a low-key debut back in 2020 through a Kickstarter campaign, the Flipper Zero's user base and popularity have grown considerably over the past three years with ever-increasing sales. But the surest sign that a device is a success is when it gets its own app store, which, for the Flipper Zero, launches...Read more...

We've got to reject the idea that [AI] is just something that's going to happen to us and we can't say anything about it," said SAG-AFTRA national executive director, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland at the beginning of a panel focusing on AI and entertainment. I think it definitely could, the question is whether we're ...Read more...

For decades, Toonami and Adult Swim have helped boost anime's profile here in the west through popular shonen like Dragon Ball Z and My Hero Academia. 2021's Blade Runner: Black Lotus was a joint collaboration between it and Crunchyroll, and now two of the late night block's upcoming programs see it further team up...Read more...

TMNT: The Last Ronin imagined a universe where just a single member of the Turtles was left standing, a dark future with little hope-but its final conclusion didn't just give a jolt of hope to that alternate reality, but set the stages for a continuation that is now coming to light.

Chuck Tingle is famously (and infamously) known for self-publishing absurdist erotica that almost always skews queer. Despite ridiculous titles like Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt And Turns Me Gay: Eight Tales Of Hot Food and Not Pounded By Bi Erasure Because My Current Hetero-Presenting Relationship Does Not...Read more...

2023 has been a pretty big year for movies, but not many of this year's blockbusters have quite the hype behind them that Barbie's had. Greta Gerwig's take on Mattel's ever-popular fashion doll line caught folks' attention with its first trailer, and each new glimpse at the film teased out something that would be if...Read more...

Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con had cosplayers out in full force in their pop culture best.Read more...

As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan's epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government's first nuclear weapons test. The Trinity" test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the...Read more...

Warner Bros. may be playing fast and loose with DC movies in live-action, but over in animation, the studio makes sure to release a handful of movies every year. Sometimes these are fun one-offs (often set in another universe, adapted or others), and others are part of their own ongoing world that's technically meant...Read more...

Earlier in the week, NBCUniversal drew controversy when it suddenly up and pruned a bunch of shade trees in front of its lot. Up until then, those trees were being used by striking writers and actors as shade during their picketing, because it's been really hot in Los Angeles lately. To see them cut down felt like a...Read more...

Without Hollywood stars attending San Diego Comic-Con this year, the schedule was full of surprises. One of the biggest though had to be the inclusion of Star Wars Outlaws. The upcoming open world Star Wars game won't hit consoles or PCs until next year, we've already seen a trailer and even some gameplay. What else...Read more...

About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with each other, a fossilized tableau of the dinosaurian-mammalian power shift that would finally come about 60 million years...Read more...

As Image Comics' Massive-Versecomics line has grown out its world over the last few years with The Dead Lucky and No/One, its lead book Radiant Black has been making some interesting swings. Recently, writer Kyle Higgins literally put the choice of who will hold the titular Radiant Black mantle-co-leads Nathan and...Read more...

Crossovers are hard. The balance of time, fandom-winking wishlists, and the need to have things still actually matter to your characters can make smashing together heroes from across a franchise a challenge-a challenge Star Trek hasn't been afraid to rise up to in the past. It's good news then, that Strange New Worlds...Read more...

Though Prime Video's animated series Invincible focuses on Steven Yeun's titular teenage superhero, the first season highlighted other, more experienced young heroes that could show Invincible the ropes. One of those characters was Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs), who's getting a little boost to her character ahead of the...Read more...

Buster and Babs Bunny are back with the Tiny Toons crew in a revamp produced by Steven Spielberg of the filmmaker and WB Animation's original 90's series for Max coming this fall.Read more...

Thought you'd had enough Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this week? Think again. To not leave fans who didn't directly beam into San Diego Comic-Con feeling left out today, Paramount has made the surprise move to drop the latest episode of the series-its highly anticipated crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks-for...Read more...