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We already knew Fallout was a hit; the Prime Video series based on the popular video games has already been renewed for a second season. But now we know just how much of a hit it is, raking in 65 million viewers globally during its first 16 days.Read more...

Tyrannosaurus rex was just about as smart as modern crocodiles and other reptiles, according to a team of researchers that investigated recent claims that the Cretaceous predators may have been as smart as monkeys.Read more...

The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing ChatGPT's models. It joins Axel Springer and the Associated Press who struck similar deals, where OpenAI reportedly offers millions for the right to use content. However, ChatGPT was trained on...Read more...

Jared Leto may be the main star of the upcoming Tron: Ares, but we now know the face of the franchise will also join him. In a new podcast, Jeff Bridges revealed that he's returning to the third film in a franchise that he headlined both in 1982's original and 2010's sequel.Read more...

If Conan the Barbarian was a desktop gaming PC enthusiast, and you asked him what is best in life, his answer would probably be the standard crush those framerates... see the pixels driven before you... hear the lamentations of your CPU fan," or something of that nature. He'd want the biggest desktop, the biggest GPU,...Read more...

In all good X-Men stories, out of the fires of chaos something new and exciting is reborn in phoenix-flame. There's perhaps no better example of that right now than the consolidation of the Fox X-Men movie era into mutantkind's renaissance on the small screen for X-Men 97-and the latter is certainly cute about...Read more...

OpenAI is under scrutiny in the European Union again - this time over ChatGPT's hallucinations about people.Read more...

Despite dedicating years of innovation and research toward convincing consumers to buy electric vehicles, automakers are still grappling with a lack of charging infrastructure across the United States. But California - a leader in EVs - says that isn't too much of a problem for its residents.Read more...

Director Matt Reeves was not messing around when he made Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He wipes out most of the human race before the title card, then unfurls a powerful story of two opposing societies destined for war despite having every possible opportunity at peace. It's bleak. It's bold. It's bloody fantastic.Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion star in the constellation Orion.Read more...

Even as Marvel Studios finds success on the small screen right now with X-Men 97 lighting fans up every week on Disney+, it's not undiplomatic to say at this point that its star has faded a touch when it comes to its big screen tentpole releases. Is it the output itself, lacking a strong coherent thread compared to...Read more...

At first glance, Marc Andreessen would appear to have all sorts of contradictory beliefs. From a distance, the venture capitalist spouts your standard brand of right-wing libertarianism, but he's also somehow a huge fan of the Pentagon. He's a big fan of America" but doesn't seem to like most Americans very much. His...Read more...

It's hard to imagine that some of the most sumptuous animated movies ever made have yet to be converted and released in the format, and yet, none of Studio Ghibli's exquisite back catalogue has made its way to 4K UHD quite yet, even as the films enjoy regular re-releases in theaters. That is, until now.Read more...

Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil? On a two-year retrieval mission of nearly 60 hours in an underground cave, we met our limits-and went beyond.Read more...

Disney has released the first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King, Barry Jenkins' continuation of the live-action Disney remake universe. It certainly has Mufasa. It certainly has a lot of other animals that exist in this trailer just for you to go look, animals! Lion King!" It also has... Beyonce's daughter?

Rabbit R1, the bright orange AI gadget that became the talk of the town during CES 2024, was launched and demoed at a private event in New York last week. The pick-up party" as the company called it was exclusively for the first few hundred buyers and now we're seeing some early hands-on impressions. Scouring all the...Read more...

A third Happy Death Day could be on the way. Isabela Merced teases her role in The Last of Us season 2. Plus, a new look at the season finale of Ghosts. To me, my spoilers!

Before you accuse me of clickbait, hear me out. If you scroll the same corners of social media that I do, then you're sick of seeing meme puzzle accounts abuse the caption Only 1% of people can solve!" over some lightweight teasers. Are we really supposed to believe that only 1 in 100 people can count the triangles...Read more...

Just before the weekend started, the animation space lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won't link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the company's TV animation slate across its Disney Channel and Disney XD networks that...Read more...

Since it debuted back in 2021, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa's Radiant Black has become one of Image Comics' biggest books. Now that it's got an entire universe of its own full of equally colorful characters headling their own books, it's just a question of what's next for the series that started it all. The answer...Read more...

The original Happy Death Day in 2017 was one of those why hasn't this done before?" horror movies, wherein college girl Tree (played by Jessica Rothe) got stuck in a time loop that always ended with her getting murdered. That first movie did really well, and its sequel Happy Death Day 2U also did pretty good! Over...Read more...

There are plenty of apps you can turn to to generate pictures using artificial intelligence. Still, Midjourney remains one of the best and one of the most popular options, having launched in beta form in July 2022.

Fallout's a pretty good show, and one of the big reasons why is the ever-reliable Walton Goggins. As the Ghoul-or Cooper Howard, once upon a time-he's a menace to Lucy and everyone else throughout the season, while being enjoyable to watch both in the irradiated present and the pre-nuclear past. Creating him and...Read more...

The Power Rangers have been doing their thing for decades, but recent times have been kind of all over the place. While the Boom! comics have been going for nearly a decade in the Mighty Morphin time period under a rotating roster of creators, Hasbro hasn't done a lot with the larger property. But a new beginning is...Read more...

You've gotta hand it to Marvel Studios: it sure knew how to make its movies feel like big events back in the day. After the original Avengers dropped in 2012, nearly every entry aimed to be bigger in some way, like the entire enterprise was obsessed with topping itself. Sometimes this was in pursuit of greater thematic...Read more...

Kingom of the Planet of the Apes is one of this summer's big blockbusters, and with its release in a few weeks, that means its time to up its promo game. We've gotten plenty of trailers and posters, and there are standees in theaters, but that's apparently not enough. 20th Century has decided that we need to see some...Read more...

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It's been a minute since we've last heard anything about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, hasn't it? The series from Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts was first teased in 2022, and save for details and footage provided during last year's Star Wars Celebration, there's been no real mention of it since. But according...Read more...

If you thought that Excel spreadsheets were just for mind-numbing office work, think again. A gaming hobbyist has created an Excel-based RPG game that he based on the popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout. It's the end of the world, all over again.

Welcome back to the week that was in io9's coverage of the latest, and greatest, in pop culture news. It's been a busy week, as the highly anticipated new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine brought with it oodles of insight and analysis on its comic book connections-but that's not all. Check out the other big stories we...Read more...

This week Apple got a dose of reality as people are caring less about its Vision Pro. A robot tank with green eyes and a robo dog with a flamethrower show that the future of warfare is here. And to round things out, Elon Musk's AI bot isn't that smart. Here's all the big tech news for the week.Read more...

Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the de-extinction' company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and, most recently, the dodo bird, developing a bioengineering toolkit along the way that has prompted investment from outfits like In-Q-Tel, a...Read more...

Apple is reportedly holding discussions with OpenAI about using the startup's AI technology to power some features coming to the iPhone later this year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. This comes roughly a month after reports surfaced that Apple was holding discussions with Google about using Gemini in iOS 18. Either...Read more...

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study asteroid Apophis when it performs a close encounter with Earth in 2029. Consumer Reports reveals that about 20% of fruits and vegetables sold in the U.S. may have unsafe pesticide levels, raising concerns about whether...Read more...

If you already hate ads on YouTube, then you're going to have a bad time with Pause Ads. During its earnings calls on Thursday, Google crowed about the success of the tests it's run on the ads, which could indicate the feature" will roll out to even more watchers.Read more...

Cobra Kai fans finally have some clarity about how, exactly, this new Karate Kid movie fits into everything. Sony Pictures just moved the new movie's release date from December 13 to May 30, 2025, specifically so it could be released after the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai.Read more...

Nowhere in Star Wars will old Han Solo meet young Han Solo. Yoda is not likely to ever meet Grogu. Princess Leia won't cross paths with General Leia. Some things are just not going to happen. Unless, well, it's Lego, where any and everything is possible.Read more...

Chaturbate will pay $675,000 in fines for not adhering to a new law in Texas that requires all porn sites to verify the age of users, according to a new report from 404 Media which cites a court order released Friday.

For almost as long as they have been in the comics, the X-Men and mutantkind at large have been stalked by a world that hates and fears them-a world that manifested that hate in the metallic, unflinching face of the Sentinel Program. Just as the X-Men have grown and changed wildly since those early days, so too have...Read more...

Bird flu isn't just lurking inside cows, new research shows. Florida scientists have reported the first known case of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Though the case dates back to 2022, it's the latest indication that these flu strains can potentially infect...Read more...

When Lee Isaac Chung was announced as the director of the long-awaited sequel Twisters, many of us scratched our heads. Chung is, obviously, a talented filmmaker. His most recent film, Minari, had just come off multiple Oscar nominations including a win. But to go from that small, personal film to the big-budget...Read more...

It's universally acknowledged that 1968's Rosemary's Baby is an influential horror classic. Attempts to directly recapture that witchy magic, however, have fallen flat: 1976 made-for-TV sequel Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby is pretty universally despised, as is the 2014 miniseries remake with Zoe Saldana....Read more...

Happy Alien Day to all those who celebrate. April 26, as many of you know, is the day pop culture has decided to celebrate one of the landmark franchises in science fiction: Alien. That's because the planet in the sequel Aliens is LV-426-so, April 26. But while in the past Alien Day has been largely an excuse to...Read more...

Update, Apt. 26, 2:43 p.m.: As of Friday morning, Drake appears to have pulled Taylor Made" from X and Instagram where he originally posted the diss track. A link to the original post on Instagram read the page may have been removed." It seems Drake bent to the demands of Tupac's lawyers to avoid legal action.Read more...

George Lucas. Hayao Miyazaki. Stan Lee. Shigeru Miyamoto. Names such as these have defined our lives. The art and products geniuses like these have created are as important to us as anything. And while we decorate our homes and imaginations with their work, what about the people themselves? When is their time in the...Read more...

A baseball player may tap his helmet three times before stepping up to the plate, and an Argentina supporter may burn incense in front of a portrait of Diego Maradona as the Albiceleste kick off. Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed their ball courts with ritual offerings, an...Read more...

Pixar Fest is kicking off today at the Disneyland Resort in a celebration that will span both Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. At a recent media preview, io9 visited both parks getting in on the Pixar Fest action, which runs from now until August 4 with entertainment offerings that include characters from Tu...Read more...

AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that's supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn't convinced. Good thinks there's one big problem with AI video software that will immediately...Read more...

This week, Russia unsurprisingly vetoed a draft resolution to prevent the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit. Russia's rejection of the United Nations resolution is not a clear indication that it possesses orbital arsenal that could destroy satellite constellations, but it shows the country is not wavering under...Read more...

Evil Dead's cackling Deadites can never truly be defeated, which means there'll always be fresh Evil Dead stories to tell-even without horror icon Bruce Campbell playing the lead, as last year's excellent Evil Dead Rise proved. A few months back, an Evil Dead spin-off" was announced, and now there's news of a whole...Read more...