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When Christopher Nolan releases a new movie, it's an event. Few filmmakers, even our most successful and well-known ones, carry the weight, expectations, and name recognition that Nolan does these days. So, as one might expect, film fans everywhere are currently getting ready to see his latest film Oppenheimer, which...Read more...

Ah the emoji, the small, cartoonish pictographs that are seemingly able to summarize the entirety of the human condition in just a few character widths. Whether you use them for the meme of it all or to literally express how you're feeling, emojis have nestled themselves firmly in the lexicon of digital communication, ...Read more...

Redsight is described as a heretical exploration of religion and power, with a sapphic science fantasy story featuring a partially sighted heroine based on the author's own experiences. Meredith Mooring makes her fantasy debut with this exciting, swashbuckling new novel.Read more...

Just how much old-school content do you want, or need, from the comfort of your couch? With all the talk about game streaming nowadays, Xbox Series X and Series S players suddenly have a new option for streaming access to more than a thousand games from the classic era. Arcade streaming service Antstream is promising...Read more...

The year 2003 felt like a banner one for Star Wars fans. We were coming off the release of 2002's Attack of the Clones, and the wait for the final" Star Wars film was filled with all manner of books, comics, video games, plus an animated micro-series from Genndy Tartakovsky. Among this deluge, one title managed to...Read more...

When the disembodied head of Michael Cera tells you to get into a clothes dryer and travel into the future, you do it. Especially if those words are coming courtesy of Steven Soderbergh, the Oscar-winning director of Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Magic Mike, and so many more.Read more...

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The legendary Hayao Miyazaki's new film releases today in Japan, and there's good news for Studio Ghibli fans not in that part of the world: GKIDS will be releasing it theatrically in North America later this year. Miyazaki's first feature in 10 years comes with multiple titles; in Japan, it's How Do You Live, but...Read more...

With SAG-AFTRA officially on strike, San Diego Comic-Con-which was already expecting a diminished Hollywood presence in light of the ongoing WGA strike-has started announcing panels that will be dropping off its schedule, including Prime Video's Wheel of Time and AMC's Interview With the Vampire.Read more...

Foundation-Apple TV+'s Isaac Asimov-inspired sci-fi series-is back for a second season that will introduce new characters and some mind-bending new plot threads. But first, we've got to check in with the familiar faces we left on a cliffhanger a year and a half ago. (Need a season one catch-up? We've got you covered.)Read more...

A second stage engine destined for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Epsilon S rocket exploded during a test on Friday, spewing fire and smoke, and severely damaging the test facility, located in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. It's yet another setback for Japan's suddenly-floundering spaceflight...Read more...

Americans throughout the U.S. have woken up today to sweltering heat as more than 93 million people in the country are currently under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories, the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote in today's alert.Read more...

Shortly after Meta's new Twitter clone Threads hits 100 million users, analysts say that the app's user engagement has precipitously dropped off.

After Ms. Marvel died in Amazing Spider-Man #26, a move that was widely criticizedand seen as a kind of horrible end for a beloved character, everyone knew that Kamala Khan would be back. And now, Marvel has announced that Iman Vellani, who plays Kamala Khan on Ms. Marvel and in the upcoming film The Marvels, is...Read more...

On Thursday, Twitter said it had expanded its creator monetization fund to share more ad revenue with creators." Who is a Twitter creator these days? Well, some of the most politically divisive figures are making the most change in Musk's new world order.Read more...

According to Variety, Deadpool 3-starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-has stopped filming. While many other productions are expected to come to a halt by noon PT, July 14, this is the first major production to officially announce a shutdown. The SAG-AFTRA strike was announced yesterday at a press conference led by...Read more...

Yesterday was a big day for actors and writers, as well as anyone-like us-who covers the entertainment industry as SAG-AFTRA officially joined the WGA on the picket lines for the first time in 60 years. From AI reveals to Fran Drescher's pretty great, off-the-cuff speech about the labor problems facing actors in ...Read more...

Shortly after a judge denied the Federal Trade Commission's injunction to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, the FTC has now turned to an appeals court to stop the $69 billion deal once again.

Heat is a silent hazard sitting beneath cities, threatening to shift infrastructure. A study published this week in Communications Engineering, outlines how heat could be changing major cities, but urban areas throughout the U.S. may not be prepared.Read more...

Update: July 14, 9:17 a.m. ET: India's LVM3 rocket blasted off from Sriharikota at 2:35 p.m. local time, sending the lander on a trajectory that will take it to the Moon.

Last year's Miyoo Mini retro gaming handheld was a surprise hit with one fatal flaw: the company couldn't keep them in stock for more than a couple of minutes. The console would sell out almost immediately and was nearly impossible to buy if you didn't spend all day tracking stock. The Miyoo Mini Plus is the company's...Read more...

At today's SAG-AFTRA strike announcement, the AI proposal put forth by the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was aired out for the first time, and it was said to include taking scans of background actors for use not only in a single project, but any project, in perpetuity.Read more...

After making its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year-read io9's review here-director and co-writer Laura Moss' Birth/Rebirth arrives in theaters next month. It's a sci-fi horror tale about two very different women who realize they have a particularly grim fascination in common.

Amazon's Prime Day sales reached a record high this year, bringing in 6.1% more revenue than during its two-day event a year ago. Shoppers spent a total of $12.7 billion, with $6.3 billion spent on the second day alone as greater discounts became available, Reuters reported.Read more...

NASA is going to store a pair of spacecraft at a facility, awaiting a second chance to go to space should the agency find a new purpose for them.Read more...

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In a live-streamed press conference today, SAG-AFTRA confirmed what we all suspected would happen: the actors are walking out. After negotiations between the actors' guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to produce an acceptable successor contract, SAG-AFTRA allowed its contract to...Read more...

Elon Musk talks a big game about freedom of expression. The billionaire refers to himself as a free speech absolutist," and spent the last year making bold promises about undoing Twitter's perceived history of suppressing distasteful ideas. But the old saying goes, you should judge a man by his actions, not his...Read more...

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are no strangers to the big screen-but until now, they've never been up there talking about Guy Fieri, Drake, and Beyonce.Read more...

Is your precious cat unable to move as gracefully as it once did? Then scientists in California might want to hear from you. They're looking to interview owners of cats with chronic mobility problems or arthritis in hopes of finding the best way to address their particular health needs.Read more...

Earlier this week, we urged Apple users to make sure they properly downloaded the company's latest Rapid Security Response update. The update, which was pushed out to user devices on Monday, was supposed to protect against a serious software vulnerability that hackers might be trying to exploit. However, hours after...Read more...

A team of researchers recently studied paintings in the Theban Necropolis near the Nile River using X-ray fluorescence imaging and discovered never-before-seen details of the painting process.Read more...

After Republican Governor Greg Abott announced a sweeping ban of TikTok on state devices this past winter, a group representing university professors is challenging him with a new lawsuit. The complaint, filed Thursday,claims that the prohibition infringes on First Amendment rights.

Who is Spock?" is a question Star Trek has been fascinated with from the very beginning, and for good reason. The paradox of the half-Vulcan, half-Human science officer lets us examine the meaning of what we see as the human experience from the perspective of someone both removed from it and defined by it-and Strange...Read more...

America is back and puking on cruise ships again! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of cruise ship outbreaks reported this year is already higher than it has been in about a decade. So far, all of these outbreaks have been caused by norovirus, a very unpleasant, though usually...Read more...

An Ohio plastic surgeon was banned from practicing medicine after live-streaming procedures on her TikTok account. Katharine Grawe spoke into a camera and answered viewers' questions on her social media account while conducting surgeries, which the Ohio Medical Board determined harmed patients and violated their...Read more...

Whatever your idea of a typical Superman movie is, James Gunn is not making that. The writer and director of 2025's Superman: Legacy got the ball rolling by first casting David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan as Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Which makes sense. Those characters are the leads in most Superman movies. From...Read more...

The Witcher's staggered release schedule has allowed for a lot of speculation and an increased number of people already lamenting the loss of Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. Netflix has just released a trailer for volume two of season three, which will encompass the final three episodes, and will be available to...Read more...

Eddie Munson returns for an encoreguitar solo atop his Winnebago at Halloween Horror Nights-thanks to theStranger Things Halloween haunted house at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Orlando for 2023. It joins the recently announced The Last of Us house.Read more...

In 2005, the residents of Ban Si Lam, a village in northeastern Thailand, dug out their local pond. Amid the topsoil they found some pottery, ceramics, and-to their surprise-an alligator skull.Read more...

From the makers of Stable Diffusion, Stable Doodle is the company's latest free text-to-image and image-to-image combo. It takes your poor attempts at mouse-drawn images and converts them into a more cohesive AI illustration. The service is free, and users on the Stability AI-owned Clipdrop platform can use their...Read more...

After Meta copied Twitter with Threads to major success, third parties are vying for an undeserved piece of the action. Apple has removed an app titled Threads for Insta," which is not actually the Threads app, but is instead an AI-powered content generator.

The Federal Trade Commision is investigating OpenAI to determine whether or not its ChatGPT AI chatbot and other products violate consumer protection laws by putting people's personal reputations and data at risk. CEO Sam Altman, who has so far managed to smile and nod his way around most governmental roadblocks, may...Read more...

Twitter's former head of HR filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, demanding Elon Musk pay out $500 million to former employees for allegedly not paying severance fees to laid-off staff. Courtney McMillan, the head of total rewards for the company's benefits programs before she was ...Read more...

The creative team of writer Scott Snyder (Batman, Dark Nights: Metal," Dark Nights: Death Metal," American Vampire) and artist Hayden Sherman (Wasted Space) is back-and so is Dark Spaces, IDW's acclaimed anthology series. io9 is thrilled to announce the next installment, Dark Spaces: Dungeon, and reveal a sneak peek...Read more...

It's been just over a year since lone gunman Peyton Gendron travelled over 200 miles and open fired in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York last May. Now, the families of those wounded and murdered in the attack want to hold social media companies accountable with a wrongful death lawsuit because the gunman...Read more...

A teen falls in love with another girl-to her surprise!-while she's exploring the world of fantasy roleplaying games in Christen Randall's upcoming debut YA novel The No-Girlfriend Rule. The book's not out until March of next year, but io9 has a first look at the cover as well as an excerpt to share today.Read more...

A recently launched communications satellite suffered an anomaly during its deployment, affecting its ability to beam data to North and South America.Read more...

Good morning SAG-AFTRA! How are you feeling? Strike-ready? Us too. Besides the news that SAG-AFTRA is very likely to go on strike alongside the WGA as the AMPTP refuses to bargain in good faith, we've got updates from Mission: Impossible, a peek at the Godzilla design to be used in Minus One, and a rumor about Black...Read more...

The co-founder and former CEO of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Celsius was arrested on fraud charges Thursday, Bloomberg reported.