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Godzilla is used to towering over cities and lording his size and strength as the King of the Monsters—but his latest show is a little different. It’s smaller, it’s certainly cuter, and it’s the return of Chibi Godzilla in a new way: the adorably adult-oriented Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, making its U.S. debut today.

Twitter’s ex-CEO Parag Agrawal is suing Elon Musk’s Twitter for the enormous amount of legal fees Agrawal argues he had to pay out of his own pocket. Agrawal is joined by the company’s former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal in seeking repayment.

After a series of dry months, England is rainy once more.

At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer, thank god, is yes (sort of). In a new study, computer scientists whipped up a pixel-art game to test whether you can separate AIs will simulate…Read more...

Your favorite retro games will never look as good as you remember unless you play them on an old tube TV whose analog technology helped to smooth out the pixelated graphics of the 8 and 16-bit gaming eras. Or, you can just embrace the pixelation, which is what fashion label Loewe has done with its new clothing line…Read more...

Bundling up in a puffy Canada Goose jacket isn’t just a fashion statement; the coats are filled with goose down that helps trap and retain body heat when temperatures plummet. But engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have drawn inspiration from another animal that calls Canada home, and have now …Read more...

Rahul Kohli has made his love of Warhammer well known, from his own model-making journey to championing Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 series even before Amazon actually went and announced the damn thing. Now, he’s getting his own taste of the 41st millennium’s grimdark future... and he’s already making his own way…Read more...

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Step aside, Thing—there’s a new disembodied hand on the scene and it’s far scarier-looking than anything Wednesday could cook up. io9 reviewed new horror movie Talk to Me (calling it “almost perfect”) at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and now there’s a trailer so everyone can feast their eyes upon this summer A24…Read more...

After being convicted of wire fraud for her dealings with her failed blood startup Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes was hoping to remain free on bail while she appeals the decision. Unfortunately for her, a federal judge has denied her that luxury.

Ivanna Sakhno teases her mysterious Ahsoka dark sider. Evil Dead Rise promises a bloody good time in new footage. Will Poulter discusses Adam Warlock’s moral compass in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Plus, get a look at what’s coming on Gotham Knights. To me, my spoilers!

On April 14 2003, scientists announced the end to one of the most remarkable achievements in history: the first (nearly) complete sequencing of a human genome. It was the culmination of a decade-plus endeavor that involved thousands of scientists across the globe. Many people hoped the accomplishment would change the…Read more...

Twitter has been subsumed by billionaire Elon Musk in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up by Musk’s X Corp. It stands as the blue bird app owner’s first official move to reinvent Twitter into a twisted version of its former…Read more...

Back when Captain Marvel was first introduced to audiences in 2019 through her solo film and Avengers: Endgame, it seemed like the character was intended to be a big cosmic player going forward. While Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers has shown up a handful of times in other Marvel properties, Carol hasn’t yet gotten to the…Read more...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or audited report and uses it to make crucial decisions about press freedom.Read more...

Recently io9 visited Pixar for a preview of its upcoming release Elemental, where we got a behind-the-scenes look at how the studio that brought us films like Up, Wall-E, and Turning Red was gearing up to transport audiences to a new world.Read more...

If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter Circle posts are accessible to the whole Twittersphere, letting their more private thoughts or pics loose on the wider…Read more...

A leaked intelligence briefing that emerged over the weekend seems to reveal a hacking episode carried out by a pro-Russian hacktivist group against a major Canadian gas pipeline.Read more...

Google does not plan to update third-party smart displays in the future. If you own any of the Lenovo, JBL, or LG-made smart displays that have come out over the past five years, it’s time to consider alternatives for your Google smart home. Another reason to be wary of being a Google early adopter.

How do you do fellow kids? In an effort to reach younger voters ahead of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden is looking to use social media influencers to tout his accomplishments through an exclusive briefing room.

Sea level rise is transforming the U.S. coastline across the country, but researchers have noticed that the rate of sea level rise has increased faster in the last decade around the Gulf and Southeastern coasts.Read more...

The third season of The Mandalorian has felt a little odd, hasn’t it? Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s space western slice of the Star Wars franchise felt like a breath of fresh air back in 2019, and the second season the following year helped show that the series’ breakout success wasn’t a fluke. By comparison, season…Read more...

Covid-related precautions helped minimize the spread plenty of other communicable diseases. But now, those bugs are back, along with some new challenges. The CDC reports that strep A infections (a.k.a strep throat), caused by a bacterium known as A Streptococcus, have surged from covid lows to above pre-pandemic…Read more...

The pregnant protagonist in peril is a go-to horror character at this point. With Prime Video’s upcoming Dead Ringers series putting maternity under a particularly harrowing microscope, we’re looking back at 10 movies that explore the very worst things you can (hopefully not) expect while you’re expecting.

There was plenty to celebrate at Star Wars Celebration Europe, which wrapped up today in London. The Lucasfilm lovefest wowed fans with all sorts of news, including when the franchise will finally return to movie theaters—and who’ll be directing the new movies. Plus, there were new trailers for Ahsoka, Visions, …Read more...

Elephant see, elephant do, it seems. In a new paper this week, researchers describe an Asian elephant that has learned how to peel a banana before eating it. The pachyderm, named Pang Pha, likely adopted the trick from watching humans but appears to only peel certain bananas.Read more...

In San Francisco, tech “disruption” is often framed as good. It’s the goal of “move fast, break things” start-ups and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: innovation, paradigm shifts, etc.... But, so far, it’s in the original sense of the word that self-driving taxi companies Cruise and Waymo are disrupting San Francisco’s…Read more...

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Just because Disney is releasing Peter Pan & Wendy straight to Disney+, it doesn’t want you to think any less of what it’s describing as an “epic movie event.” A new trailer suggests this latest release from David Lowery—the director of the noted visual feast The Green Knight—will indeed be cramming as much epic as it…Read more...

None of the big PC makers have managed to crawl out of the muck of 2022 declines, and new data shows that Apple’s been among the hardest hit. According to an industry report, Apple has significantly scaled back shipments of its MacBooks and other computers in the first few months of 2023, pointing to a significant…Read more...

Last November, the nerd-o-sphere understandably freaked out when Studio Ghibli co-founder and all-time most beloved anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki released a single photo of the director with the above Grogu figurine. Star Wars fans (including us!) wondered if it meant the legendary anime studio would be making a…Read more...

The SpaceX Starship rocket’s orbital test flight has been in the works for months, but it looks like it might finally be happening in a little over a week. No, we really mean it this time.Read more...

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Chinese tech giant Baidu is suing Apple and several app developers, claiming the developers created fake copies of the Chinese tech giant’s Ernie AI chatbot and that Apple allowed them into its tightly controlled App Store. The lawsuit, first reported by Reuters, claims Apple greenlit the counterfeit applications for…Read more...

Combining ancient Persian mythology with the impossible-to-explain bond between pets and humans, Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee captures pain, guilt, and revenge in a single tidy novella. As man-eating manticores stalk the countryside, giant rocs, their only known natural predator, are trained up in royal mews by ruhkers…Read more...

You probably shouldn’t hold your breath for a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Jughead seems to be writing Archie comics again on Riverdale. There’s some kind of Wacky Races-type cartoon coming that isn’t Wacky Races. Spoilers gonna spoil, baby.

After apologizing to the Bahamas ahead of a recent treasure hunting scheme, Fyre Fest mastermind Billy McFarland has some seemingly inevitable news for us all: Fyre Festival 2 is in the works.

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly round-up of the greatest toy news the internet has to share. This week: Hasbro’s got a new Grogu figure with cheeks you can’t wait to pinch, Lego embiggens the heads of Return of the Jedi’s most memorable heroes, and Hot Toys returns to Darth Vader once again with a glowing,…Read more...

Former crypto golden boy Sam Bankman-Fried’s calamitous time at his former exchange FTX was even more haphazard and ludicrous than previously stated. FTX’s latest bankruptcy report filed Sunday adds additional fuel to the still-smoldering questions regarding just how greedy and corrupt its former executives were…Read more...

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Star Wars: Visions, Disney+’s animated anthology series that debuted in 2021, finally has a trailer for season two. We learned earlier this year that the series would be premiering May 4, and would include international studios, where previously only Japanese anime studios had been tapped to participate. Now we have…Read more...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that he was the one responsible for covering up the “w” in Twitter’s name with a white tarp a few days ago—and he’s done it again. This is how new “Titter” was born.Read more...

You know that I love puzzles. And I know that you know that I love puzzles. Does it follow that you know that I know that you know that I love puzzles? No? Philosophers examine questions like this in the study of common knowledge. To solve this week’s puzzle, you’ll need to peer inside others’ minds and deduce what…Read more...

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Illumination’s Super Mario Bros. movie i now in theaters, and not unlike with the games themselves, is doing really well at the box office.

Before there was Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, before there was Galactic Starcruiser, heck, even before there were prequel movies, there was Star Tours. The first collaboration between Lucasfilm and Disney theme parks debuted in 1987 and in the decades since, has always attempted to stay current. On Sunday at Star Wars…Read more...

Just as the weekend started, TTRPG company Paizo has published the first draft of its Open RPG Creative License (ORC).

Star Wars Celebration brings plenty of news with it from the galaxy far, far away, but it also brings future opportunities to drain your wallet. Hasbro understood this more than anyone else at their panel at the London convention, and they brought out big announcements from Star Wars and Indiana Jones to whet fans…Read more...