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Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we're going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it's the first time the re-releases will feature their remastered 4K versions from 2020.Read more...

China's space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris.

Residents in Greece were witnesses to a hellish-looking dust storm this week. The dust originated from the Sahara desert in North Africa and was blown across the Mediterranean Sea by strong winds. By Tuesday, Athens and other Greek cities were blanketed in an orange-red and potentially dangerous haze.Read more...

Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains' new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother's Day, Memorial Day weekend, Father's Day, and summer vacations at beach destinations like Niamos or Ibiza.

It would be easy to presume that airlines would spare no expense to ensure that passengers' luggage meets them at their destination, considering how lucrative the attached fees are. Airlines globally made more than $29 billion in checked bag fees in 2022. However, frequent flyers are well aware that bags can be lost...Read more...

The Steam Deck remains extra popular partly due to the stranglehold Valve's Steam has on the PC games market but also partially because it (arguably) popularized the modern rendition of the handheld console. It's not the smallest, it's not the most powerful, but damn is it appealing. More than two years after the Deck'...Read more...

From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of the Space Shuttle, the history of animals in space is as fascinating as it is weird. Here are some of our favorite stories.

There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who-a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades-having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change. But one major change coming into the show's new season has had UK audiences...Read more...

Robotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising clear views of the cosmos and ease of use-attributes not often found paired together in a single telescope. Amateur and backyard astronomers are now fully embracing this ongoing, auto-GOTO revolution, but not every...Read more...

If you thought Lego's space toys for May were limited to the world of Star Wars, think again-the toymaker's latest reveals bring things back to our time and our galaxy, and they combine stunning engineering with incredible art.

io9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli when he released his memoir in 2018. Now, the director of Phantasm I-IV, as well as Bubba Ho-Tep, The Beastmaster, and John Dies at the End, is trying something new: fiction. Or rather, Phiction-a book of short stories that explores tales from the world of Phantasm."Read more...

In about five years' time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantage of its visit.

Hasbro is working with Sony on bringing Clue back to the world of film and TV. The producers of Dead Boy Detectives tease the new adaptation. Plus, Furiosa gets rated. Spoilers, away!

Garry's Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve's Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry's Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related content from the...Read more...

President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores. TikTok tells Gizmodo it will fight the law in court, a case likely to reach the Supreme Court, saying that Biden's law tramples" First Amendment protections. In interviews...Read more...

I have always used Google Maps but never cared enough to look beyond the basic features. It wasn't until today that I made an effort to explore the app and ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the cool things it's capable of. You might already know some of these, but you might have missed a handful of interesting...Read more...

Try putting pure joy into words. The English language has plenty of worthy adjectives and beautiful metaphors but nothing quite comes close to actually, perfectly capturing what it feels like to be completely filled with happiness. To reverberate with delight. To float on cloud nine. No, to adequately capture that...Read more...

When we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence. But then Revenge of the Sith, and with it the Clone Wars 3DCG series, constrained what could be done with the character. Grievous took on the air of a Saturday morning...Read more...

Steam's refund policy for games is simple: You have two hours to play the game after you buy it to decide if you want to keep it. Like all good things, some folks decided to take advantage of a loophole, and now Valve has changed its policy to close it.Read more...

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Worldcoin, the project that hands out free cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data, is experiencing a shortage of the orbs that scan everyone's eyeballs, according to a new report from Semafor. But Tools for Humanity, the startup behind Worldcoin, seems to think that's a good sign. Apparently, 10 million people...Read more...

Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are not screwing around when it comes to their upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are the first three actors who've joined the film, a follow-up to the cult classics 28 Weeks Later and 28 Days Later.Read more...

Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials say these samples do not appear to contain live virus and that the commercial milk supply should still be safe. But the...Read more...

The Department of Transportation announced a final rule mandating that airlines automatically give cash refunds to passengers and inform passengers of their right to a refund on Wednesday. The policy change highlights the Biden Administration's continued hardline support of consumer rights in the skies. The USDOT...Read more...

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person's political orientation by simply looking at that person's blank, expressionless face.

Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We've spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it's more than just delightful. It's cathartic.Read more...

Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded - this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders.

DARPA announced successful tests of its new autonomous vehicles on Wednesday, all part of the agency's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. And while the tests sound impressive, we found ourselves transfixed by one little visual detail: The tank's glowing green eyes.Read more...

If you've read Blake Crouch's 2016 novel Dark Matter-and a lot of people have, considering it's a best-seller-you're probably wondering how the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation will handle the high-concept gimmick that propels the story: a box, designed by a genius that's one version of the main character, that allows...Read more...

It took 40 years, but recently one of my toy dreams came true. After writing this article about toys that you always wanted, but could never have, I was contacted to see if I'd be interested in receiving and writing about a brand new set of Voltron toys to celebrate the franchise's 40th anniversary. The answer wasn't...Read more...

I didn't realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I've had recommendations turned off this entire time. It turns out the same option hides the curated" Microsoft Store apps currently populating on systems running the KB5036...Read more...

The concept of tolerance has weighed heavily upon Disney+ seriesX-Men 97. And now as the world and what is left of mutantkind looks upon the ruins of Genosha, the series is ready to grit its teeth and show some fangs, giving us righteously bitter examination of just where the morals of that tolerance-the morals cast...Read more...

For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with Earth as though it shares some special relationship with our planet. A new study of the oddball may have pinpointed where it came from: a young impact crater on the far side of...Read more...

Edit Kermit the Frog singing Rainbow Connection" over almost anything and people are going to get emotional. But when you put it over a documentary about the man who created Kermit, with footage of them both together, then it's a surefire shot to the tear ducts.Read more...

Before you leave the Vault and head to the Wasteland, you'd better pack the essentials. Water, weapons, Pip-Boy, and of course a vinyl copy of the original soundtrack to Fallout.

SpaceX, the world leader in rocket launches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny for its workplace practices. A recent safety review performed by Reuters highlights an upsetting trend at the aerospace company. For the second year in a row, injury rates at SpaceX far exceed the industry average. This is according to...Read more...

President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok's owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores.Read more...

Fallout's delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once, meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you've no doubt reached the end-and are longingly pining for season two's arrival. Since that is at least a year away, and probably longer, here are 10 movies to watch now that...Read more...

It's a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his new" vision for the electric car company. Tesla is now focused on building an AI-powered fleet of...Read more...

The chronology of any comic book storyline or character-woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative-is always a complicated affair. But there are few mainstream adaptations with a more convoluted mess of timelines and canons than Fox's X-Men movies. Now, nearly two and a half...Read more...

Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world's first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The recipient is a 54-year-old woman named Lisa Pisano who was diagnosed with terminal kidney disease and heart failure.Read more...

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It's just about halfway to Halloween and Home Depot is ready to start rolling out spooky season decor to celebrate. The store's most viral release-Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton-is consistently hard to find as the holiday gets closer, so with that in mind the popular must-have will be released early as part of this drop.Read more...

Tired of the so-called AI PCs already? Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, haven't even begun to peak. More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs don't get nearly as much limelight as the x86 type. Still, chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to turn your eyes toward its latest Snapdragon chips by promising...Read more...

NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year.

If you have really basic questions about your new AirPods, this guide will help you with everything from connecting them to cleaning them. It also includes some tips for improving sound and customizing controls-that will make the most out of your new Apple earbuds.

Apple's Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what's coming on Chucky season 2, and a new clip from X-Men 97. Spoilers get!

Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA's Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to search for potential evidence of past life," according to the official mission objectives.

A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes.Read more...

Have you seen that photo of a dog attempting to make sweet and passionate love to a robot dog? It's gone viral on sites like Reddit, Instagram, and X. But it's fake. Hopelessly, tragically fake.Read more...