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A year after the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser took its last flight, here's a look back at the best of Disney Parks' bold venture into the immersive entertainment space-and why in the end, it couldn't quite work.Read more...

Put on your best white tux, smuggle a diamond, and throw on Anything Goes." May 23 is the birthday of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom-the franchise's weirdest entry,for a whole lot of reasons. And since it was released in 1984, that makes today its 40th anniversary. Happy birthday Indy!Read more...

Netflix is a go-to for must-watch series like 3 Body Problem and Stranger Things, but it's not really a cult movie destination. If you dig deep, though, you can turn up some offbeat sci-fi and horror gems. With io9's previous Netflix cult-movie guide now mostly outdated, here's a fresh list culled from the streamer's...Read more...

California is another state lining up to pass a law requiring adult sites to verify the ages of porn watchers.Read more...

There's a lot to be excited about when it comes to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton finally returning to this wild world he created all those years ago. Michael Keaton hopping back into one of his most iconic characters. Finding out what's happened in the years since with Winona Ryder's character Lydia, especially...Read more...

In this economy, we could all use extra help. I am a coupon queen, saving money wherever I can and recuperating dollars and cents/sense as I make purchases. I'm already initiated into Google Play Points and redeeming them for cash and credit. This week, Google announced more ways to get free money. You will have to...Read more...

In developed countries all over the world, driving continues to get safer. The one exception to that rule is the United States, where driving continues to get more dangerous. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that make drivers in the U.S. more dangerous, there's no silver bullet that will magically fix things....Read more...

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Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old programmer who died of leukemia in 2006, is set to be the first millennial saint, according to a new report from the Catholic News AgencyThursday. Acutis created websites documenting purported miracles and has been dubbed God's influencer" since his death.Read more...

io9 has several acclaimed authors among its alumni, including Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Evan Narcisse, and Andrew Liptak. Another former io9-er, Linda H. Codega, will join their ranks early next year with the release of fantasy novel Motheater, and we're thrilled to be debuting the cover and talking to the...Read more...

Corn is a problem. Or rather, America's growing reliance on government corn subsidies to power our everyday lives. Beef is artificially inexpensive because farmers feed corn to cows, even though their digestive systems aren't designed to process it. Sweet foods are artificially inexpensive because high fructose corn...Read more...

Elon Musk shared his dystopian vision for the future on Thursday while remotely joining the Viva Technology Conference in Paris. An audience member asked whether AI would one day replace Musk, expressing real concerns about automation taking jobs-a situation many are already facing. The owner of X, xAI, Tesla, and...Read more...

It goes without saying that Star Wars fans are extremely excited for The Acolyte, which arrives on Disney+ June 4 to reveal a Jedi-centric crime tale set a century before The Phantom Menace. A new behind the scenes video reveals that The Acolyte's cast has equal levels of excitement about the series.

Do we live in an unusual star system? Astronomers have been trying to figure out if the Solar System is unique compared to other stars and their orbiting planets, and they just took a major step towards answering the longstanding cosmic mystery.Read more...

Google Workspace released an update today that could make video conferencing in meeting rooms a bit more convenient. With its new adaptive audio' feature, Google Meet will sync the mics and speakers of all the laptops in a room for an improved overall audio experience. It will offer setup without any input from...Read more...

It's that time of the year again-but warmer than average. Hurricane season is upon us and the National Weather Service is expecting above-normal" hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, which could portend a difficult six months for coastal states, the Caribbean, and eastern Central America.Read more...

X-Men 97 just wrapped up its first season on Disney+, and we're still trying to recover from the thrilling conclusion. To hold us over until season two, here are the best behind-the-scenes tidbits we learned from the new doc Assembled: The Making of X-Men 97 to geek out about until the show returns.Read more...

Forty years to the day after Steven Spielberg sent Indiana Jones on a mine cart chase, he's chasing his next movie, and it sounds like a biggie. The legendary director just set May 15, 2026 for the release of his new movie, which is being described as a new original event film." David Koepp, who penned Jurassic Park...Read more...

For the first time in more than a year, Tesla has released new data presenting how its controversial Autopilot driver assistance technology keeps its customers safe.

The ghost with the most has broken free to wreak more afterlife mayhem on the living Deetz family. The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice-perfectly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice-arrives September 6, and we've got a fresh peek at the action in thanks to a brand-new trailer.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment and asked a court to break up the company over claims it has maintained an illegal monopoly over the live entertainment industry.Read more...

In July 2023, scientists launched the Euclid Space Telescope into orbit with a straightforward, albeit massive, task: to map the dark universe, revealing the dark matter and dark energy that we cannot directly observe but makes up the bulk of everything.Read more...

Many of the characters that appear in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga we've met before: Furiosa, of course. Immortal Joe. The War Boys. But one of the new additions, Chris Hemsworth's Dementus, is not only mad and exciting, he changed throughout the filmmaking process.Read more...

A newly discovered exoplanet, with its surface temperature estimated to be remarkably temperate, is suddenly one of the most intriguing objects in our immediate celestial neighborhood. This rocky Venus-sized world transits a red dwarf star, offering astronomers the rare opportunity to study whether such planets can...Read more...

Star Trek: Discovery has always had a bit of a problem with the penultimate episodes of its seasons-episodes that have to come to some sort of juddering climactic halt for whatever's happening that week, to set up the dire stakes coming in the finale episode the week after. At long last, as the series looks to its...Read more...

The cast of Jurassic World 4 expands. Street Fighter gets its first logo. Plus, Doctor Who hypes its strangest villain yet. To me, my spoilers!

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Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, the disgraced cryptocurrency executive who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud, will be transferred from Brooklyn, New York, to Mendota, California, against his wishes, the Wall Street Journal reports.

We're still months away from the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, so while we wait, it might be time to travel to London. That's where the most recent piece of mythology in the series can be found and now, for the first time, we've got a real good look.Read more...

You've already set a reminder for Dune: Part Two's arrival on Max next week, and we've previously assembled lists of other genre movies the streamer has on offer. But don't forget about all the excellent genre series, too; House of the Dragon returns next month and Dune: Prophecy arrives in the fall, and in the...Read more...

If you think your T-Mobile phone bill is already pricey, there could be some bad news coming. The mobile carrier plans to increase prices on some plans as soon as June.Read more...

If you missed out on everything Microsoft announced before and during its big Build developer conference, let me catch you up. There are AI agents, new AI models, AI real-time translations, AI transcriptions, and-best of all-all new Copilot+ computers that are supposed to make these AI tasks available on-device. It's...Read more...

It's become exceedingly difficult to get your dog on a commercial flight, which is why a new, luxurious, albeit quite expensive, chartered air service for pets may be quite appealing to some pooch owners.Read more...

The Conjuring filmmaker James Wan is gearing up to build out another universe of monsters with 1313, a reimagining of the The Munsters for Universal. The Wrap reported the development of the project between Wan's production company Atomic Monster, Lab Brew, and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.Read more...

The state of Michigan reported its first human case of H5N1, commonly called the bird flu, on Wednesday according to a press release from Michigan Health and Human Services. It's just the third human case ever detected in the U.S. and the second of the current outbreak that has alarmed public health officials who are...Read more...

Besides the name Nolan," The Dark Knight and Fallout don't have much in common. One is based on a comic book, the other a video game. One is set in a modern setting, the other is post-apocalyptic. But Jonathan Nolan, co-writer of The Dark Knight and executive producer of Fallout, found the approach to one had a big...Read more...

This summer, there's going to be a hunt in Wakanda. io9 is incredibly excited to announce that writer Benjamin Percy and artists Chris Allen and Ken Lashley are teaming up on a new Marvel Comic called Predator vs. Black Panther, a four-issue mini-series that will debut on August 21.Read more...

An analysis of British road traffic accidents in a recent study concluded that battery electric vehicles and hybrids are significantly more likely to strike pedestrians than gas or diesel vehicles. According to data compiled from 32 billion miles of BEV and HEV travel and over 3 trillion miles traveled in gas and...Read more...

Sixty-four years ago, a team of archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old suit of armor in Dendra, Greece, several miles from the ancient site of Mycenae. Known as the Dendra Panoply, researchers were unsure if the resplendent suit of armor was purely ceremonial or battle-ready.Read more...

If you're a fan of Star Wars, Lego, or both, you might want to clear a few minutes right now. Photographer Hue Hughes has generously shared with io9 some of his stunning photographs of Lego Star Wars pieces and we are completely obsessed.Read more...

Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it's just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets. Well, it appears that our government's legislators have heard these complaints and, unlike when the rest...Read more...

X Premium users have been able to hide the posts they've liked for months now, but the feature may soon become the default for everyone. A director of engineering at X said the platform is making likes private in a Tuesday post, noting that public likes may be discouraging people from engaging with content that might...Read more...

Earlier this month, bigwigs at Marvel and Disney made it clear they'd be making a strategic decision to release fewer movies and TV shows going forward. Now we know at least one new Disney+ series that'll be part of that scaled-down plan: a show centering Vision which will bring back Paul Bettany as the character...Read more...

In real life, if you look at them side by side, Liam Hemsworth and Henry Cavill don't really resemble each other. But put them in White Wolf wig and costume, and turn the brightness way down, and... man, The Witcher's continuity problem isn't seeming so dire now.Read more...

We're used to seeing Star Wars characters fight with lightsabers. But the first clip from upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte shows us some highly skilled, absolutely relentless hand-to-hand combat. Even Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) is confused: You attack me without a weapon," he says to Mae (Amandla Stenberg), his...Read more...

A Tesla owner in Ohio had a terrifying experience recently when his car tried to drive him right into a crossing train, according to multiple videos posted to the Tesla Motors Club forum. The vehicle was in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode and allegedly, this isn't the first time the driver has experienced a disturbing...Read more...

A team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole's spin thanks to the object's chance meeting with a star-which it promptly destroyed.Read more...

What if Marvel Studios, Disney+, Industrial Light & Magic, and Apple all came together for a single project? Well, we don't have to ask What If?" It's actually happening. It's called What If...? - An Immersive Story, it's a virtual reality experience exclusive to Apple Vision Pro, and the first trailer is here.Read more...

Amazon is reportedly releasing a generative AI version of Alexa later this year and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee separate from Amazon Prime for the technology, according to CNBC on Wednesday. It's part of Amazon's effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 Omni and Google's Gemini 1.5, which threaten...Read more...

Google Maps is one of the most popular navigation apps. Gizmodo readers have voted it the greatest app of all time. That said, it never hurts to explore your options when it comes to figuring out which navigation app is right for you. We've found some of the best Google Maps alternatives on iOS and Android for...Read more...