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Sony may sometimes struggle with giving its products memorable names, but at the same time, calling its new flagship wireless earbuds the WF-1000XM5 is kind of a major flex. They are astoundingly good, and their sound quality and ANC performance are more than enough to sell the earbuds without any clever branding....Read more...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sci-fi-tinged, iris-scanning cryptocurrency project Worldcoin began rolling out services internationally today. The extent to which Worldcoin actually delivers on its promise of a new global digital currency," however, may vary dramatically depending on where users are located.Read more...

Barbie and Oppenheimer opened this weekend, and crossing theater aisles for both films was a cultural phenomenon; Barbenheimer. Double-billing both films may not have been most people's cup of tea (and, frankly, I would not recommend it) but both films resonated with audiences, bringing in a total of $511 million...Read more...

If you're too impatient to wait for your gaming space to inevitably become infected with the odor of stale pizza, Xbox has you covered.

After being split into two volumes' of episodes, The Witcher is back for a gut-wrenching season 3 finale. As Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, and Jaskier fight for the future of the Continent, elves, mages, and monsters clash across the fields of battle.

Spotify announced on Monday that it's raising the cost of the premium subscription in the U.S. for the first time in 12 years. It said the increased prices are in response to an evolving market landscape," and to give Spotify cash so it can keep innovating," the company said in a news release.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the coolest toy news around the internet. This week, Playmates ensures that the horrors persist with an update to its classic 90s TMNT figures, The Marvels takes flight in Lego form, Hasbro rolls out even more Transformers: The Movie goodness. Check it out!Read more...

Tired of that lovely bird song, Musk has smothered the cage housing Twitter's classic bird logo. The site is still called Twitter," microblogging posts are still called Tweets" but the little blue bird logo appearing in the top corner of the site for over a decade has become a big, bland, black X."Read more...

Although it had a low-key debut back in 2020 through a Kickstarter campaign, the Flipper Zero's user base and popularity have grown considerably over the past three years with ever-increasing sales. But the surest sign that a device is a success is when it gets its own app store, which, for the Flipper Zero, launches...Read more...

We've got to reject the idea that [AI] is just something that's going to happen to us and we can't say anything about it," said SAG-AFTRA national executive director, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland at the beginning of a panel focusing on AI and entertainment. I think it definitely could, the question is whether we're ...Read more...

For decades, Toonami and Adult Swim have helped boost anime's profile here in the west through popular shonen like Dragon Ball Z and My Hero Academia. 2021's Blade Runner: Black Lotus was a joint collaboration between it and Crunchyroll, and now two of the late night block's upcoming programs see it further team up...Read more...

TMNT: The Last Ronin imagined a universe where just a single member of the Turtles was left standing, a dark future with little hope-but its final conclusion didn't just give a jolt of hope to that alternate reality, but set the stages for a continuation that is now coming to light.

Chuck Tingle is famously (and infamously) known for self-publishing absurdist erotica that almost always skews queer. Despite ridiculous titles like Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt And Turns Me Gay: Eight Tales Of Hot Food and Not Pounded By Bi Erasure Because My Current Hetero-Presenting Relationship Does Not...Read more...

2023 has been a pretty big year for movies, but not many of this year's blockbusters have quite the hype behind them that Barbie's had. Greta Gerwig's take on Mattel's ever-popular fashion doll line caught folks' attention with its first trailer, and each new glimpse at the film teased out something that would be if...Read more...

Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con had cosplayers out in full force in their pop culture best.Read more...

As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan's epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government's first nuclear weapons test. The Trinity" test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the...Read more...

Warner Bros. may be playing fast and loose with DC movies in live-action, but over in animation, the studio makes sure to release a handful of movies every year. Sometimes these are fun one-offs (often set in another universe, adapted or others), and others are part of their own ongoing world that's technically meant...Read more...

Earlier in the week, NBCUniversal drew controversy when it suddenly up and pruned a bunch of shade trees in front of its lot. Up until then, those trees were being used by striking writers and actors as shade during their picketing, because it's been really hot in Los Angeles lately. To see them cut down felt like a...Read more...

Without Hollywood stars attending San Diego Comic-Con this year, the schedule was full of surprises. One of the biggest though had to be the inclusion of Star Wars Outlaws. The upcoming open world Star Wars game won't hit consoles or PCs until next year, we've already seen a trailer and even some gameplay. What else...Read more...

About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with each other, a fossilized tableau of the dinosaurian-mammalian power shift that would finally come about 60 million years...Read more...

As Image Comics' Massive-Versecomics line has grown out its world over the last few years with The Dead Lucky and No/One, its lead book Radiant Black has been making some interesting swings. Recently, writer Kyle Higgins literally put the choice of who will hold the titular Radiant Black mantle-co-leads Nathan and...Read more...

Crossovers are hard. The balance of time, fandom-winking wishlists, and the need to have things still actually matter to your characters can make smashing together heroes from across a franchise a challenge-a challenge Star Trek hasn't been afraid to rise up to in the past. It's good news then, that Strange New Worlds...Read more...

Though Prime Video's animated series Invincible focuses on Steven Yeun's titular teenage superhero, the first season highlighted other, more experienced young heroes that could show Invincible the ropes. One of those characters was Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs), who's getting a little boost to her character ahead of the...Read more...

Buster and Babs Bunny are back with the Tiny Toons crew in a revamp produced by Steven Spielberg of the filmmaker and WB Animation's original 90's series for Max coming this fall.Read more...

Thought you'd had enough Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this week? Think again. To not leave fans who didn't directly beam into San Diego Comic-Con feeling left out today, Paramount has made the surprise move to drop the latest episode of the series-its highly anticipated crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks-for...Read more...

Not to be outdone by last year's Comic-Con announcement that Strange New Worlds would team up with Lower Decks for a crossover episode in season 2, this year the latest Trek series returned to San Diego to go one weirder: the Enterprise is getting downright lyrical.

San Diego Comic-Con has been very good to Star Trek in recent years, and even as Hollywood labor movements mean the franchise's stars are sitting out of the action in Hall H this year, there was still plenty to be excited about in Star Trek's new panel-like a long awaited first look at the return of Lower Decks.

The end may be coming for Star Trek: Discovery-in March, word came that the series will wrap up in early 2024 after its fifth season-but plenty of thrills will be packed into its final mission. Thanks to San Diego Comic-Con, we have a new trailer that offers the best glimpse of season five's treasure-hunt mystery...Read more...

Comic-Con may be more about movies and TV than comics some years, some times it's more about comics than movies and TV (especially this year). But one thing it always is, thanks to Hasbro: a nightmare on your wallet for Marvel and Star Wars fans.

The Eisner Awards awarded its 2023 winners last night at San Diego Comic-Con. While Image had the most total nominations, and DC the second-most, DC's Nightwing won all three of the categories it was recognized for: Best Continuing Series, Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team, and Best Cover Artist. One of...Read more...

It's time to showcase io9's favorite cosplays of the day at San Diego Comic-Con 2023.

After debuting in 1999, multiple Emmy winner Futurama had an on-and-off existence across Fox, the direct-to-DVD realm, and Comedy Central, with its apparent finale in 2013-until news came last year that Hulu had ordered 20 new episodes. The first 10 arrive July 24, and fans will be glad to know they were worth the...Read more...

If you're a Star Wars toy fan you probably already heard about Hasbro's latest announcement. It's going to release a mega, super, duper version of The Ghost from Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka though its Haslab program. If 8,000 people pledge $500 to buy the ship before September 7, it'll be made. And considering as of...Read more...

AMC's The Walking Dead went through plenty of characters during its 11-season run, but the departure of Andrew Lincoln's leading man Rick Grimes was a momentous shakeup. Next to him, one of the biggest characters to leave the show alive was Danai Gurira's Michonne, and the pair eventually fell in love before Rick was...Read more...

There's a new Punisher in town, and he's a guy you've truly never heard of.

Star Wars: The High Republic may have began as a golden age for its titular government and the Jedi Order that stood beside it-but later this year things are taking a turn towards darkness, as Lucasfilm's prequel publishing initiative kicks off its third and final phase. But as dark as things will be, the future got a...Read more...

As the planet warms, mosquitoes are slowly migrating to higher places - and bringing malaria to populations not used to dealing with the potentially deadly disease.

With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versebeing a theatrical success and Spider-Man 2 set to hit the PlayStation 5 in October, everyone's got Spiders on the brain. Ahead of the film's release, Marvel made an effort to push specific Spider-Man variants such as Pavitr Prabhakar (Spider-Man India) and Hobie Brown...Read more...

Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. had an eventful life up to and including its sudden cancellation in 2018. For as long as gaps between seasons could get, it was just one of those shows that came to define the late night Cartoon Network block and also released at just the right moment. The years changed and the world...Read more...

The mountain of merchandise revealed at San Diego Comic-Con this year included a couple of toys we wish we could un-see. Lego's two foot-tall brick-built Chewbacca's beady eyes are already a staple of our nightmares, and is soon to be joined by a growing Groot Hasbro that makes the character look like he's being...Read more...

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It's been over two years since Mark Grayson fought his father in the season finale of Invincible season 1. In that time, fans have had one question above all others. When is season 2? Well, at San Diego Comic-Con, the team behind the incredible animated adaptation made it official. Invincible season 2 is coming on...Read more...

Netflix's adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece has been slowly teased out over the past year or so ahead of its release next month. After a grand reveal during the streamer's Tudum event in June, a new trailer at San Diego Comic-Con was released that features a more expansive look at the show.

io9 ventured into Jurassic Park at the 30th anniversary experience for the Steven Spielberg classic at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 and got face to face with a T-Rex... while sitting on an iconic toilet.

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Today, Wizards of the Coast has revealed the upcoming Doctor Who Universes Beyond Magic: The Gathering set at San Diego Comic-Con. The sneak peek includes eleven cards and shows off about twenty additional piece of art. The set will be released in October, but is currently available for preorder online at Amazon or at...Read more...

Daryl Dixon has pretty much always been the most popular character on The Walking Dead. Sure people love Rick and Michonne. They loved to hate Negan and The Governor. But Daryl has always been that perfect balance. That's why it's wild to think that finally, after all this time, he's finally got his own show and now...Read more...

It probably feels a lot longer than that, but Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's sci-fi comedy series Rick & Morty is turning 10 years old in December. Ahead of the show's seventh season premiering sometime in the fall, Adult Swim held a 10-year retrospective panel for the show at San Diego Comic-Con (hosted by io9's...Read more...

These days, if you want original science fiction films, you usually have to turn to the on demand market. Low budget sci-fi with no name stars is happening all the time. But big budget sci-fi, in theaters, with famous actors? It just doesn't happen that much anymore without.Read more...

Square Roots, an indoor smart farm" co-owned by Elon Musk's brother Kimbal, has closed down four of its five locations and laid off most of its employees on Tuesday. The farming startup opened in 2016, producing herbs, greens, and salad mixes using artificial light in an indoor environment before distributing the...Read more...