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Hasbro's been on a tear with Transformers mashups in the last few years, giving us transforming robot takes on Dracula, the vehicles and dinos of Jurassic Park, and even the Ninja Turtles. But the series' next mashup isn't a robot... it's a spinning top.

Results from the longest-running trial of semaglutide-the active ingredient in the popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy-are in, and the verdict is decidedly positive. The study found that people taking semaglutide tended to maintain their initial weight loss for up to four years. Other trial data presented this week also...Read more...

The debut season of Amazon's lavish Lord of the Rings prequel, Rings of Power, played a long game to get to whole bunch of questions it left off for season two. Well, now our first look at the sophomore season is here, and at least one of those questions is being pretty resoundingly answered. Where's Sauron? Here's...Read more...

The last time Lego ventured there and back again to its Lord of the Rings line, we found ourselves at the House of Elrond, a bastion of all that is good in Middle-earth as Rivendell became the first Lord of the Rings set after years of absence. Now, a year later, the brick-builder is back... with something altogether...Read more...

Apple and other streaming companies are interested in shaking up the entertainment industry's compensation model. According to Bloomberg, under the newly proposed system (which is really only an idea, at this point), talent-like actors and other production staff-would be paid based, partially, on how well the movie...Read more...

The past decade has seen humanoid robot makers trying to make their creations more and more like humans. But here in 2024, we seem to be witnessing an odd shift in the dexterity of our bipedal robo-dreams. Put bluntly, robotics companies aren't afraid of getting weird with the contortions of their latest offerings.

Maguire. Garfield. Holland. And now, Cage.Read more...

This last big Apple release was such a doozy that you'd be forgiven for only paying attention to the siren call of a new OLED iPad. I've had the chance to get intimate with these new tablet products and accessories, and believe it or not, it's not the ultra-luxury, uber-expensive tablet that's made me the most...Read more...

Dune: Part Two was a hit, so while it's a little surprising there's been no official announcement on expected third movie Dune Messiah, here's a consolation: the first update in awhile on Dune: Prophecy, the Bene Gesserit-centric prequel series (originally titled Dune: The Sisterhood) in the works at Max.Read more...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o on Monday, showcasing the real-time audio features that make it seem like Spike Jonze's film Her is now becoming a reality. Just like in the movie, OpenAI gave ChatGPT a dynamic, friendly, and arguably flirty, voice that truly sounds just like a human. I'm going to make an early and somewhat...Read more...

Season two of Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire picks right back up with Louis (Jacob Anderson), now joined by fellow vampire Armand (Assad Zaman), as he recounts to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) what happened when he and Claudia (Delainey Hayles)fled to Europe after leaving Lestat (Sam Reid) for dead.Read more...

On Friday, Earth was hit by the strongest geomagnetic storm in 20 years. Intense solar activity sent bursts of radiation toward Earth, causing fluctuations in the upper atmosphere that led to disruptions in the power grid and radio blackouts, among other technologies and infrastructure.

The summer movie season is here-and, before we dive into what's in store for 2024, let's turn the clock back 40 years to one of the best summers of all time: 1984. *Jumps in Time Machine*Read more...

Gen Z is making less than millennials made a decade ago at the same age.

I often use the iPhone's Voice Memos at product briefings for interviews. As you can imagine, transcribing a 20-minute recording could be tedious. Thankfully, AppleInsider has learned of an AI-powered update coming to the Voice Memos and Notes apps on iPhone that will soon be able to transcribe and summarize voice...Read more...

American philanthropist Melinda French Gates will resign from her post as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, the organization she co-founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates.Read more...

A new Wicked trailer is coming Wednesday, and with that announcement comes a brief featurette showing director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) sharing his excitement for the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical-but mostly focuses on stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, including their emotional, adorable...Read more...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) during its Spring Update on Monday morning in San Francisco. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and OpenAI staff showcased their newest flagship model, capable of real-time verbal conversations with a friendly AI chatbot that convincingly speaks like a human.Read more...

The fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn's breakout character, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at least four publicly announced titles,...Read more...

Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air quality warnings on Sunday after the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada started to reach the Upper Midwest. And it's causing plenty of anxiety in people across a large swath of the U.S. who are dreading the idea of spending yet another summer choking...Read more...

In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different when it kicks off on Tuesday, May 14.

Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone-and a new chance to deliver a story that's also wildly malleable in quality. Doctor Who is about...Read more...

Earlier this month, South Carolina resident Brent Norman had an especially unlucky time at the beach.Read more...

You've got questions and Wes Ball has answers. His new film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, opened this weekend and io9 recently sat down with the director to talk all about it. We've covered all the non-spoiler stuff already but below, we dive into the film's surprising prologue, some big character revelations,...Read more...

Most folks who walk into a room with an 85-inch TV, let alone a 98-inch TV, offer one of two impressions, often verbalized with some screech of surprise. One is, Wow, look at the size of that thing." The other is, That's just too damn big." TV Maker TCL, a company more known as the quality brand for those looking...Read more...

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Ahmed Best-the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it-shouldn't have needed a Star Wars redemption arc, but he arguably has had one of a sort in the last few years, beyond a renaissance of prequels re-examination, in the form of Kelleran Beq: the Jedi gameshow host...Read more...

GameStop and other meme stocks surged wildly on Monday morning as Keith Gill returned to social media. The leader of the 2021 meme-stock mania, also known as Roaring Kitty and Deep Fucking Value, sent a single tweet on Sunday night that shook the universe of meme stocks, as their fearless leader signaled a second...Read more...

OpenAI will livestream updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4 on Monday at 1 p.m. ET. In a Friday tweet, CEO Sam Altman rejected several reports that OpenAI is launching a search engine or GPT-5 at the event. However, Altman announced something that feels like magic" is coming to ChatGPT.Read more...

This article was updated on 5/13/2024 to include Edifier's QR65 speakers.Read more...

There's a lot of really interesting things going on in Fallout's first season, but few are as immediately fascinating as Walton Goggin's mysterious hunter-known only to the inhabitants of the Wasteland as The Ghoul," but to audiences as the pre-war actor Cooper Howard. It's a mystery that works thanks to an...Read more...

Google's Pixel releases are giving a major case of deja vu. I bought the Pixel 8 in October, but the Pixel 8a feels like nothing more than a reprise, save for the camera hardware and a few other bits. This speaks to Google's slightly confusing trajectory regarding its hardware. As a two-time buyer of the first-tier...Read more...

OpenAI is gearing up for a much-anticipated spring update to GPT-4 and ChatGPT on Monday, and multiple reports are pointing to voice as the next frontier for Sam Altman's AI company. On Friday's episode of the All-In podcast, Altman indicated that voice-based AI systems, much like in the 2013 film Her," could be a...Read more...

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Tech giant Apple is poised to see its first-ever strike on its retail operations after staff at a store in Maryland voted to authorize a strike against the company.Read more...

If you haven't seen before why eight buffalo' strung together form a valid English sentence, then strap in for a linguistic trip. Buffalo has at least three meanings: as a collective noun it refers to bison, as a proper noun it's a city in New York, and as a verb it means to bewilder. The eight-buffalo sentence uses...Read more...

Each Planet of the Apes reboot has featured a central human in the conflict between the hyperintelligent apes and what remains of the human race. For the newly released Kingdom, our human proxy is Mae, played by The Witcher's Freya Allan. Though she initially seems like a regular feral human-who can't speak, as...Read more...

The second season of Peacemaker is currently filming, and James Gunn is now starting to slowly peel back the curtain on what to expect from the Max series' return. In the first real bit of casting news, it's been revealed that Frank Grillo will appear as Rick Flag, Sr.Read more...

After a seven-year hiatus, we're once again back in the world of the primates. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes continues the story originally started with 2011's Rise, but with a massive, 300-year time jump and new characters reckoning with what remains of Caesar's legacy. When it's been so long since we've had one...Read more...

We're about halfway through 2024, and we've gotten some solid showings of horror both on TV (like Chucky, Them: The Scare) and in the theaters (Abigail, Late Night With the Devil). There's more to come with the likes of Alien: Romulus and Speak No Evil, and Netflix is adding something new into the mix with Nightmares...Read more...

It's May, and that means we get an idea of what shows will or won't be coming back in the next year. For Apple, the streamer has decided to call it on Constellation, ending the series after a single-season run.

Roger Corman, producer and writer of indie and B-movies like Death Race 2000 and Sharktopus, passed away on May 9, per Variety. He was 98 years old, and said to have passed surrounded by his family.

There's a new human entering the Jurassic World franchise, and he's gonna be fighting for his life in this new film.Read more...

It's been over a month since Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire came out, and once the credits rolled, discussion pivoted to what was coming next. Were Warner Bros. and Legendary going to split the two monsters off into their own isolated adventures, or would they do another straight crossover?

New seasons of Doctor Who have always been a big deal, but this one has had even more anticipation behind it. Between Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and the return of Russell T. Davies, there's been the promise of a bold, new era for the sci-fi series, which started on Friday with the two-episode premiere on Disney+.Read more...

Over the last few months, news has slowly come tricking out about 28 Years Later, which fans of the first two movies have been wanting for a long time. We know Danny Boyle's back in the director's chair with returning writer Alex Garland, and that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jack O'Connell are headlining...Read more...

Welcome back to another week that was-from jumping in hot with Battlestar Galactica's return to streaming, to our first look at our brand new Superman, and celebrating 25 years of Lego Star Wars, a lot's been going on. And that's before you get to the impending arrival of Furiosa, and... well, more Lego to drain our...Read more...

The Cybertruck continues to make us laugh with how bad it is, and now it's literally breaking people's fingers and slicing their legs. The strange, secretive AI model referred to as gpt2-chatbot" has resurfaced. Check out the rest of the big tech news for the week.Read more...

If you've been on the internet lately, it's almost impossible to avoid the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Rap beefs come and go, however, Metro Boomin's BBL Drizzy" may outlive it all. The track holds the number-one spot on SoundCloud's New and Hot chart with roughly 3.3 million listens. But even better, the...Read more...