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Adobe's pending purchase of Figma, the popular online graphics editing and interface design application, is facing yet another challenge. The European Union Commission plans to begin an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, according to a report from The Financial Times, attributed to four sources familiar...Read more...

On Tuesday, that other video hosting site, Vimeo, said it will introduce a new suite of generative AI features into its video editing tools for paying users with the aim of shortening the scripting and editing process from hours to minutes. Vimeo has steadily backed off from challenging YouTube for amateur content in...Read more...

The easiest way to avoid a costly repair job on your vehicle is to take it in as soon as warning lights pop up on your dashboard, but that assumes you understand what each dashboard symbol means-and when your car is reaching out for help. You can do one of two things to ensure you know what your car is saying: read...Read more...

Failed crypto founder Do Kwon is now facing a stint behind bars, not due to his many alleged crypto crimes, but for his very shady passports. On Monday, Montenegro's basic court announced it had sentenced Kwon and his compatriot, former Terra chief financial officer Han Chong-joon, to four months in jail. The pair had...Read more...

Frozen 3 is going ahead without Jennifer Lee as director. Velma will be back for season 2. Warner Bros. animation is planning an action-focused Beast Boy spinoff from Teen Titans, and tease Batman: Caped Crusader. Plus, even more Secret Invasion footage before its premiere this Wednesday. To me, my spoilers!

After thousands of subreddits went dark to protest Reddit's decision to charge money for API access, the revolt continues with a new figurehead. Redditors in some major subreddits have flooded their respective communities with photos of British comedian John Oliver instead of the typically posted content.

Although Twitch's new Partner Plus program, which gives streamers an increased share of their subscription revenues, was seen as an olive branch by many in the streaming community, creators should probably take a second look at the company's sparkling initiative before starting to cheer, industry experts say.Read more...

Google has by now notched a significant history of hardware just as good as its namesake search engine, including the Pixel 7 smartphone and its industry-leading camera. The company's hardware efforts have, however, struggled when it comes to tablets, taking what we've previously described as a try, try again"...Read more...

I think we can all agree we'd love to visit somewhere as beautiful as the Spider-Verse. So many colors, so many unique looks, so much vibrant life. For that to happen, though, you'd either have to employ thousands of artists to illustrate the world around you, or just grab the work several artists have already done.

The seventh Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, had its world premiere in Rome, Italy on Monday and the first reactions are here. It's a film many, many fans have been waiting for. A film that started filming pre-pandemic and had many, many ups and downs along the way. So, after all...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is still swinging in theaters and now Sony has begun to spotlight its next Spider-project. It's Kraven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latest in Sony's stable of Spidey villain projects like Venom and Morbius before it.Read more...

Almost ten years ago, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail began work on a passion project of his. Bring Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, Metropolis, back to life as a long-form television series. It was a dream that was very close to becoming a reality with Apple TV+ getting ready to start production later this year....Read more...

Open Netflix at any given time, and the trending" menu is inevitably peppered with true crime-tales of murder, cults, scandal, and beyond, all rendered with a stylistic polish that makes binging salacious stories feel like a not-completely-trashy experience. Black Mirror knows you can't tear your eyes away from true...Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toy and merchandise around. This week, NECA gets us ready for San Diego Comic-Con with a glorious TMNT collection; there's not one, but two wildly different cool dino toys; and Lego offers a moment of peace. Check it out!

Most of us spend most of our days inside apps of one type or another, and if you're looking for a new one, there's no shortage: You'll find around 1.6 million of them in the iOS App Store alone, for example, which is enough to last several lifetimes. Now, while the majority of these apps are perfectly benign and...Read more...

Announcement: The Gizmodo Monday Puzzle is going on a summer hiatus. Look out for us again in the fall! Follow me on Twitter to stay up to date about the series and for more puzzles, math, and other curiosities.

Sun’s out, fandom fits out, for a summer of geeky fashion and more. Check out these blockbuster-inspired merch collections out in time for the release of The Flash, The Little Mermaid, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Barbie, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.Read more...

“Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do.”Read more...

Emily Blunt has no shortage of gigs—the star of Jungle Cruise, Mary Poppins Returns, and the first two Quiet Place movies, to name just a few, is currently doing the pre-Emmy nomination rounds for her BBC-Prime Video series The English. But there’s one project many sci-fi fans have been hoping to see: that much-teased…Read more...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman slammed subreddit moderators who continued to push back against the company’s plan to charge for access to its API, a change that would shutter beloved third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, calling them “landed gentry” and saying they weren’t considering the desires of their communities.Read more...

From TNG to Picard, Jean-Luc has had a hell of a ride in the Star Trek galaxy—and now, an overwhelming majority of it is going to find itself bundled all into one pricey, but glorious package.Read more...

Earlier this week Ubisoft dazzled gamers with a surprise fully fledged look at Outlaws, its upcoming open-world action adventure Star Wars game. In what we’ve seen so far, Outlaws wants to play with Star Wars in ways other recent games maybe haven’t so much—an intriguing mid-Trilogy setting, a smuggler protagonist…Read more...

Twitter is in freefall—ad revenue is down more than half since last year, owner Elon Musk is mucking around and firing people left and right, and users (including me) have noticed a steep decline in the quality of their feeds. Bluesky, a near-clone of Twitter built on a decentralized protocol with the support of…Read more...

After years of being damn near perfect, Pixar has entered a whole new phase. Its past few releases have failed to live up to the company’s impossible standard, and more and more animation studios seem to have caught up to Pixar in terms of innovation and story. This week, Pixar’s latest film, Elemental, hits theaters,…Read more...

John Wick: Chapter 4 released in theaters a few months ago and only recently hit streaming for those who wanted to see it in their own home. Though the movie gives a fairly conclusive end to the story of Keanu Reeves’ unflappable and enduring assassin, it appears that final chapter wasn’t quite so final as you’d think.

Imagine it’s 2001. You turn on your old Dell shoebox computer and boot up your newly-installed Windows XP copy to hear that choppy “bummm” sound and see the classic rolling hills of the stock desktop wallpaper. Well, if you’re really interested in returning to the ancient operating system more than 20 years after its…Read more...

As companies like Asus, Logitech, and Sony continue to push the limits of handheld gaming devices (seriously, Sony, an eight-inch screen?), companies like Anbernic are making them smaller and smaller. Its latest, the RG Nano, looks to be smaller than a pack of playing cards, but still capable of playing thousands of…Read more...

Updated 5/26/2023, 7:17 P.M. ET: The Writers Guild of America-West posted a tweet endorsing President Obama’s statements in support of the union and strike effort on Friday afternoon, following initial publication of this article.Read more...

Last Friday, May 19, a group of WGA writers were able to pull off an incredible act of solidarity across generations. In front of Paramount offices, a Star Trek-themed picket convened, spread by word of mouth and utilizing invitation only channels. Over the course of the four-hour picket block, actors, crewmembers,…Read more...

Lieutenant Titus has had a long strange journey, even for a massive, alien-stomping genetically enhanced religious zealot. He’s gone from being the star of the surprisingly-solid Space Marine video game over a decade a go, to emerging from obscurity and across the rubicon Primaris for its surprise upcoming sequel. And…Read more...

Even dead, Luke Skywalker keeps finding his way back into Star Wars. It happened first in 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when the deceased Jedi Master returned as a Force Ghost. In 2020, it happened again, this time as a younger, de-aged, CGI version on The Mandalorian. Finally, in 2022, Skywalker returned a…Read more...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that essentially provides legal protection to private space companies in the event of injury or fatality to a crew member during their flights.Read more...

A lot of little things this morning—updates on the horror-thriller Succubus, the new Alien series, and an episode recap of From. Lastly, AMC has also released an extremely short teaser for Daryl Dixon’s Walking Dead spinoff, seemingly assuring fans that it’s in production. Tasteless, considering that the writers of…Read more...

If it isn’t broken, don’t replace it with AI—especially when it comes to metal detectors. This past October, a high school student in New York was stabbed with a knife that the school’s AI weapons scanner failed to detect.Read more...

A judge declared a YouTuber guilty of defaming his ex-girlfriend’s father and issued a punishment unheard of until now, ordering the influencer to read his sentence weekly on his channel for a month. Dalas Review will also have to pay his former partner’s father nearly $13,000 in damages.Read more...

Sometimes, Darwinian natural selection stumbles upon the same solution more than once, in a process known as convergent evolution. Here are our favorite examples of evolution making the same creature, or same physical trait, twice.

Amazon’s Fire tablets essentially started life as color screen versions of the company’s Kindle ebook readers, allowing users to access Amazon’s other content including streaming video and music. But Fire tablets have slowly grown in size over time, as has their aspirations. The new Fire Max 11 is Amazon’s largest…Read more...

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Adobe’s Photoshop has grown to become an incredibly capable and powerful image editing tool, but its ever-increasing complexity also makes it harder for new users to learn how to use it. That could change later this year, however, as Photoshop will soon introduce some new AI-powered tools that allow users to perform…Read more...

As the real thing is currently exploring another planet that’s, on average, 140 million miles away from Earth, Lego has designed a new set that will give space geeks a more accessible way to explore the design and capabilities of the Mars Rover Perseverance and its sidekick, the Ingenuity helicopter.Read more...

I’ve had the misfortune of leaving things behind in an Uber. A birthday present. My phone. My purse with the money to pay for my cat’s Christmas photoshoot. Yet, I have never left anything as strange as what the folks in Uber’s 2023 “Lost and Found Index” have left, including “a pin of Jesus holding a slice of pizza”…Read more...

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Bluey, a staple of the Nielsen streaming top 10, is the number-one streaming series among subscribers of Disney+, and it’s not even produced by the company.Read more...

Outside of occasional YouTube availability, the inability to consistently stream the first three series of the iconic Gundam franchise—Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ—has been a source of frustration for fans. But, at long last, that’s changed.

With production on the fourth season of Paramount+’s Evil paused due to the ongoing writers strike, fans may have to wait a bit longer see just what the hell (pun intended) is going to happen after that shocking season-three finale. A new interview with the show’s creators, however, offers some tantalizing hints.Read more...

Do Kwon, notorious crypto entrepreneur and recent international fugitive, spent months evading arrest—despite claims that he was “not on the run.” Yet now that he’s been detained, his attorneys are hoping for the flitting fugitive’s release on bail.Read more...

The catastrophic 2019-2020 bushfire season in Australia was so extreme that it may have contributed to the rare triple-year La Niña, new research has found. In a study released in Science Advances this week, scientists found that the fires created enormous emissions that affected weather patterns globally.Read more...

More than a twisted fairy tale, The Salt Grows Heavy takes inspiration from a variety of mermaid lore and legends, laying the mythos out on a surgical table and taking it apart bit by bit. This short, sharp novella flays its characters open—often literally—in order to perform a surgical, queer satire of happy endings. …Read more...

Elon Musk is apparently in the mood to follow-up on promises this week. After months of silence on the topic, the world’s second richest man has announced he’s selected a successor to take over the role of Twitter CEO. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” Musk wrote in a tweet (of course).…Read more...

Are we closer to the “Holy Grail” of clean energy? Silicon Valley wants you to believe.Read more...