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I hope you all had a nice time yesterday celebrating any fathers in your lives. I can trace my love of puzzles back to my dad, who was quizzing me about Zeno's paradox and the Fibonacci sequence before I was potty trained. This was us nearly every night of my childhood:

When night fell on Uganda's second-largest national park in early February, Jacob, a three-legged African lion, made several attempts to cross a dangerous channel with his brother, Tibu.

After several years where most of their movies launched on Disney+ (and not without controversy), Pixar's back in theaters withInside Out 2. The sequel's big hook isa trio of new Emotions that've emerged from Riley's growth into puberty, and it's got a lot audiences who've seen it jumping for joy.Read more...

Last month, it was revealed Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas was heading up a Disney+ show for Vision after his White variant departed WandaVision. Matalas now has another project lined up alongside that, which is good news for him, but not so good news for anyone holding out hope for him to continue any of P...Read more...

Over the last few months, Delicious in Dungeon has been airing over on Netflix. Based on the manga of the same name by Ryko Kui, the adaptation courtesy of Studio Trigger (the team behind Promare and Cyberpunk Edgerunners) has been a really good watch, and just wrapped its first season this past Thursday. Fans didn't...Read more...

Marvel's relaunched version of the Ultimate Universe has been going strong between its current quartet of titles. Between Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Black Panther, the line's writers and artists have been gradually sketching new alternate versions on classic characters. But now...Read more...

Artificial intelligence is pretty much everywhere you look at the moment, churning out reams and reams of text and piles and piles and images, and its ability to synthesize new' material out of vast amounts of training data extends to audio too: You can have your own little customized ditty put together for you in...Read more...

As Apple eulogized its commitment to purportedly non-invasive AI during its annual developer conference, the iPhone maker neglected to disclose a critical update that's coming to the next evolution of its Mac operating system - macOS Sequoia.

Supermassive Games' interactive horror game Until Dawn is getting adapted to film, and it's now locked down about half its primary cast of young adults turned potential murder victims.Read more...

Defying persistent requests" from Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor, Mozilla said this week that it will restore local access to five censorship-circumventing add-ons.Read more...

The works of Stephen King have mainly been adapted as feature films in recent years, but TV's due to get its own King things pretty soon. Along with HBO's Welcome to Derry, MGM+ is entering the ring with a show based on the author's 2019 novel The Institute.

Star Wars has a particular type of music that runs throughout most of its media. Following on from John Williams, composers like Kevin Kiner, John Powell, and Michael Giacchinno have evoked the score of his films through the various spinoffs like Rogue One and Clone Wars. It's only been recently that Star Wars: Jedi...Read more...

If you're a fan of My Adventures with Superman, good news: it's getting another season.Read more...

Warner Bros. and DC have gone back to the world of Watchmen off and on ever since the 2009 live-action movie. While it's been a few years since the last time they returned to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' world, they've apparently still got Watchmen fever and are now looking to bring the superhero story as a movie once...Read more...

Kimberly Gasuras doesn't use AI. I don't need it," she said. I've been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?" That logic wasn't enough to save her job.

The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta's piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth, we now have batteries the dimensions of a graham cracker that can last days before needing a recharge.

In some parts of the country (mainly the hot, humid parts), humanity's relationship with the friendly insect known as the mosquito can be quite contentious. Not only do these wonderful little pests swarm you, suck your blood, and leave unattractive splotches all over your skin, but they're also known to transport many...Read more...

Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont, has long been railing against the price of prescription medications in the U.S., as Americans pay the highest prices for drugs in the world. But Sen. Sanders scored a win on Friday, as the CEO of Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic, agreed to testify about the...Read more...

Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen met long before they crossed paths in Star Wars; though their careers have been mostly divergent (her breakout was 1995's Kids; his was 2002's Attack of the Clones), they attended the same NYC drama school as teens. Now both associated with major roles in Star Wars and have shared...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened yet another investigation into Boeing, this one centered around concerns that counterfeit titanium may have been installed in some of the aviation giant's planes.

I was grumpy after Google I/O last month. I thought, what is the point of all this artificial intelligence if it's hurting my Android experience now? Then I caught myself excited over similar AI features Apple announced for the iPhone at WWDC.

A Tesla in self-driving" mode slammed into an unoccupied police car during the early morning hours of Thursday, according to the Fullerton Police Department. No one was injured in the crash, but bodycam footage shows a police officer sprinting out of the way to avoid getting hit.Read more...

The third episode of The Acolyte is pretty incredible for a lot of reasons. It's an episode that, in content, invites us to consider new perspectives on some of the saga's most fundamental spiritual ideas, and delivers a meaty slice of back story for its protagonists and antagonists alike. But it also does something...Read more...

Over a dozen Wells Fargo employees were fired last month for trying to fool their bosses into thinking they were working when they were not, as first reported by Bloomberg Thursday. It seems they were unsuccessful. A regulatory filing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) says the bank investigated...Read more...

Voyager fans, rejoice! The 46-year-old spacecraft is once again probing interstellar space for cosmic wonders following a seven month-long hiatus.Read more...

We all know that Elon Musk likes procreation. He has 11 kids, after all. The tech billionaire currently has twins with an executive at Neuralink, two children with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Grimes, and a gaggle of children with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson. The billionaire was also accused of asking a former...Read more...

Angel Manuel Soto's Blue Beetle ushered in the new era at DC Studios under James Gunn and Peter Safran, and while critics (including io9) enjoyed it, the tale of budding superhero Jaime Reyes (played by Cobra Kai's Xolo Mariduena) didn't really catch on with audiences (it hit theaters during the Hollywood strikes)...Read more...

June 16 heralds the arrival of House of the Dragon's second season on HBO and Max, bringing its large cast of morally complex characters, many with confusingly similar silver-blonde tresses, back to screens. io9 already assembled a list of House of the Dragon's 15 most shocking moments (so far); to go with that, here...Read more...

YouTube appears to be stepping up its long war on ad blockers this week. The creator of SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced ad blocker, posted a tweet on Wednesday claiming YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection. This would inject ads directly into a video's stream, and render many ad blockers useless.

If you missed out on seeing writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's neon-infused nightmare I Saw the TV Glow in theaters, you can now watch one of the year's most unique and haunting horror films at home-which may even enhance its enchanted-by-the-boob-tube effects.Read more...

Apple's new Apple Intelligence system is designed to infuse generative AI into the core of iOS. The system offers users a host of new services, including text and image generation as well as organizational and scheduling features. Yet while the system provides impressive new capabilities, it also brings complications....Read more...

Despite lofty expectations, the all-new, budget-enhanced Doctor Who has been-to be kind-a bit of a ratings bust. Speaking at a recent BAFTA Q&A, showrunner Russell T. Davies admitted as much, with the caveat the Fifteenth Doctor era has proven to be enormously successful with younger audiences.Read more...

The Pentagon was behind hundreds of Twitter accounts spreading anti-vaccine propaganda as a way to undermine China during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, according to an explosive report from Reuters Friday. U.S. government officials confirmed to Reuters the existence of the campaign, which started under former...Read more...

Things can get lonely on Mars. NASA's four-wheeled robot has been roaming the Red Planet for more than three years, trekking across the harsh terrain on its own after losing its pal Ingenuity. But perhaps the Martian rover has found a way to connect with us from 140 million miles away. Because let's face it, we all...Read more...

Lots of weird stuff happens in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and Obi-Wan getting a clue at a 1950s-style diner owned by one of the weirdest-looking Star Wars creatures ever is near the top of the list. Dex and his diner are an incredibly unique piece of Star Wars lore so to see it recreated in reality is...Read more...

It's hard to go a day without hearing something new about the latest diabetes and obesity medications, semaglutide and tirzepatide. Usually, the buzz is positive, but there has been a persistent claim made about these drugs that would make any potential user wary: They don't only help you lose weight-they supposedly...Read more...

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Apple TV+ has released a trailer for Sunny, its new ten-episode darkly comedic mystery series" pairing star Rashida Jones with a talking robot.Read more...

I'm leaning against a teal lunch counter with the sound of robots whirring behind me, and Steve Ells is telling me about mise en place." It's French culinary lingo for the prep a chef does before cooking, translating to everything in its place." But the founder of Chipotle is describing himself, and the decades of...Read more...

Trigun Stampede had a wild launch in 2023, giving us a fresh, sumptuous-looking spin on the world of the beloved Yasuhiro Nightow manga, while also inadvertently being responsible for making This Is How You Lose the Time War one of the biggest books on Amazon for a hot minute. It was a lot! But now, it's headed...Read more...

If you were chomping at the bit to get your hands on a brand-spanking new Copilot+ PC, you'd have to wait a bit before you can use the Recall feature.

Elon Musk was all smiles during the Tesla shareholder's meeting in Austin, Texas on Thursday, a fact that was understandable given his victory in a $45 billion pay package dispute. But the most interesting part of Musk's presentation to shareholders came when the Tesla CEO started talking about his plans for the...Read more...

The next Jurassic movie might have found its new title-and its big premise. Bitsie Tulloch teases the comic book inspirations behind Superman & Lois' final season. Plus, Astro Boy is getting a new reboot. Spoilers, away!

Is Madame Web a good movie? Still a tough question, frankly, but as someone who has aggressively admired its commitment to a very specific bit since it first released earlier this year, I've always been a little disappointed that so few people gave Cassie Webb a chance because of paltry things like they heard it was...Read more...

Name any genre and chances are Emily Blunt has it on her resume-horror, action, rom-com, thriller, mystery, musical, historical drama-and not only that, the movies she stars in overwhelmingly tend to be blockbusters. One arena she's especially succeeded in is science fiction-and now the star is joining one of sci-fi's...Read more...

If you own a Pixel, make sure it's up to date right now. Google just quietly announced patches for as many as 50 different software vulnerabilities in its Pixel line, many of which are listed as being critical" or high" in severity. The company said that there are indications that at least one of the bugs may be...Read more...

The families of the victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 want to seize the social media accounts of Alex Jones, including his 2.3 million follower X account, according to a report from Reuters Thursday. And their argument makes a lot of sense when you hear it.

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Apple has invented some phenomenal products over the years. Between the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Macbook Air, it's pretty hard to choose the best one. After Apple's 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference, YouTuber Marques Brownlee sat down with CEO Tim Cook to get his thoughts on the most infamous Apple devices. That list...Read more...

There has never been a singular view of the Force in Star Wars. From the original movies introducing us to the framing of light and dark, and Jedi and Sith, to the myriad Force religions that have been woven in and out of Star Wars continuity for generations since, to even how individual Jedi and Sith prescribe...Read more...