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Tinder isn't the best at reading the room or taking a hint. Even though its announcement of the outrageous $500-a-month tier, Tinder Select, led to considerable backlash back in September, the company has recently been expanding the membership offering by inviting additional users to apply for it.

Time's just about up for holiday shopping, and the pressure is on for anyone doing last-minute runs to the mall or searching online for the quickest delivery. If you're looking for that perfect Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, One Piece, Wonka, or Disney100 gift-don't worry, io9's got you covered with this handy list of...Read more...

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Following the launch of its next-generation satellite, Hughes Network Systems is now starting to offer faster internet speeds to compete with its main industry rival SpaceX.Read more...

It's time to look back at spaceflight in 2023, a real two steps forward, one step back" kind of year, filled with highs, lows, and everything in between.

The Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitational waves.Read more...

Doctor Who's Millie Gibson introduces her new companion, Ruby Sunday. Snowpiercer's unaired final season will appear... somewhere. Time is up for Shining Vale. Plus, Frank Darabont could direct some of Stranger Things' final season, and a new look at What If? season two. Spoilers, away!

Just when we thought gaming monitors were already going a little too hard on high refresh rates, LG shared Thursday details on a few of next year's pro gamer monitors that put too much stress on the pro." The company's upcoming display is yet another 4K OLED that can hit 4K resolution at 240 Hz. Sounds solid; I guess...Read more...

The initial pitch for the $380 Logitech Astro A50 X Lightspeed headset sounds like an infomercial. It's as if a revived, gamer-ified Billy Mays made a 30-second TV pitch sounding off: Are you tired of shoving all those dongles in your consoles? Do you hate that it's so hard to use the same headset across all your...Read more...

At one moment in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, characters are running through a mutated jungle, chased by lion-sized cockroaches while avoiding violent, human-eating plants. In another moment, multiple characters are standing around, their hair flowing wildly, delivering wooden dialogue that's almost as painful for...Read more...

Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform's most severe outage since Elon Musk's takeover in October of 2022, according to Bloomberg. Data from Google Trends shows that many users rushed to Mark Zuckerberg's Threads during the outage.Read more...

The largest lake in Earth's history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethys-or Lake Paratethys, if you will-and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth's modern lakes. In other words, it's long overdo for its place in the Guinness Book.

A life without burps might sound like a blessing, but a new study shows it's anything but. Researchers interviewed patients with the rare condition retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD), which makes them unable to burp or belch, about how it affected their daily life. Not only did patients report unpleasant...Read more...

An influential machine learning dataset-the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications-includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals.Read more...

You're not imagining things: air travel has gotten a lot worse. No checked bags, less and less legroom, charging for wifi when it costs the airline the same amount whether or not you use it - it's all part of a strategy that experts call calculated misery," where companies make your experience more unpleasant on...Read more...

Dinosaurs' reign on Earth ended explosively (and then dustily, as we'll mention in this story) when an asteroid slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago. But the dinosaurs-and the diverse ancient creatures they shared the planet with-have kept many secrets locked away in their fossilized remains, secrets which...Read more...

Last year theToronto International Film Festival played host to The People's Joker, a queer, comedic re-imagining of Batman's legendary foil in a Gotham City where crime was outlawed. Warner Bros, naturally, immediately did not care for this, and the film looked like it was destined for a life of limited showings at...Read more...

A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time.

All eyes are on Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Pictures after the CEOs of each company met Tuesday in New York City to explore a possible merger. According to Axios, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav met with Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone, who owns Paramount's parent company, about...Read more...

Amazon is done making an ass of itself, and making snacks out of ass, as the digital marketplace will no longer sell edible donkey meat in California. The online retailer will not allow Californians to buy hundreds of donkey-based snacks listed on the platform as part of a settlement, according to Wired. But don't...Read more...

If you thought it'd be Hasbro who first got its hands on Ahsoka's trooper repurposing, think again: Hot Toys is giving us our first actual look at Thrawn and the Great Mothers' unholy matrimony of Imperial Remnant and Nightsister witchery in action figure form... although there stands a good chance anything Hasbro has...Read more...

Things we know for certain about Robert De Niro: he's an acclaimed actor whose career is still going strong after over 50 years-and his outspoken personality means he's no stranger to controversy. His feelings on Donald Trump are well-documented, but apparently Killers of the Flower Moon producers Apple would rather...Read more...

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo's weekly deep dive on what's been happening in artificial intelligence.Read more...

With a dizzying array of streaming services available, there was no shortage of great TV this year-and while io9 has already shared our top 20 shows of 2023, today we're revealing our top TV moments... all 50 of them. These are the moments when we laughed, cheered, shed a tear, shrieked in disbelief, and/or realized...Read more...

In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a digital brain", one that's directly modeled after that of a human. Just like a young child, AI has incentives and learns from those around it. If ChatGPT was a young child, it would be growing...Read more...

Scythians in modern-day Ukraine made leather out of human skin, a team of researchers has determined, likely as a macabre trophy item. The discovery affirms a claim by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote extensively on the Scythian way of life.Read more...

Every year, there are a few dates I immediately look forward to on the calendar. My birthday, of course. My wedding anniversary. Christmas. Super Bowl. San Diego Comic-Con. And, maybe above all others, DesignerCon.Read more...

We're still discovering new ways covid-19 can harm us, some four years after the emergence of this complicated viral disease. In a recent report, doctors in Massachusetts describe a teen girl whose vocal cords became paralyzed soon after a bout of covid-19. The girl required a tracheostomy in place for more than a...Read more...

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space exploration.

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming's most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.

Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters-these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.

Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA's Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in case things go wrong during the 10-day journey through space.Read more...

When the sunglasses go on, Ryan Gosling disappears and becomes just Ken.Read more...

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If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled to a cut from the $25 million legal settlement Apple agreed to pay. MacRumors did some math and claims you could get between $30 to $50 if you qualify.

The best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.

Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing rambunctious, helmetless e-scooterists to fly down city streets declared bankruptcy Wednesday, saying it was entering...Read more...

Mutant Mayhem's Jeff Rowe talks keeping Shredder back for the sequel. Wyatt Russell discusses' Thunderbolts filming schedule. Get a look at Jadis' return for Walking Dead: Ones Who Live. Plus, get a look at Adam Sandler's new sci-fi movie for Netflix, Spaceman. To me, my spoilers!

NASA just combined all of my favorite things: space, lasers, and cats. In a first-of-its-kind demonstration of deep space optical communication, the space agency streamed a high-definition video from 19 million miles away from Earth. And as it turns out, NASA is just as obsessed as we are when it comes to sharing cat...Read more...

Cybersecurity incidents are constantly in the news these days, but you'll soon be hearing about a lot more of them. That's because a new rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect on Monday, requiring all public companies to report data breaches in just four days.

An error in judgement earlier this year-when a D&D artist confirmed they had used generative AI programs to finish several pieces of art included in the sourcebook Glory of the Giants-saw Wizards of the Coast publicly ban the use of AI tools in the process of creating art for the venerable TTRPG. Now, the publisher is...Read more...

This week, Tesla made an abrupt change to its in-vehicle entertainment system interface, appearing to cut Disney+ out of the rotation of apps that could be accessed by users. Teslarati initially reported that the car company appeared to have axed Disney+ from its vehicles." The site later updated its reporting,...Read more...

Christmas horror movies are never not popular-but what about those holiday-themed dramas, film noirs, and action comedies that never seem to surface on festive watch lists? We've gathered 10 movies to stream if all the traditional titles make you want to gouge your eyes out with candy canes.

Interpol, an international police organization, has arrested nearly 3,500 people allegedly connected to cybercrime in a sweeping operation announced on Tuesday. $300 million worth of assets across 34 countries were reportedly seized. The operation, Haechi IV, blocked over 80,000 suspicious bank accounts and warned...Read more...

Last week, Epic won a years-long suit against Google for anti-competitive practices within the Play Store. We were all left wondering: what would happen to Android's app store moving forward?

The finest residents of New Yohrk Citaaaaaay are bowing out. Vulture reports that as What We Do in the Shadows prepares to begin production on its sixth season next month, it is doing so knowing that it will be the last.

China's Shenlong robotic spaceplane, on its third mission, has added a new layer of intrigue to its space activities by deploying six unidentified objects into Earth's orbit.

A second season of Ahsoka hasn't been officially announced yet, but showrunner Dave Filoni has begun to share some of its possibilities.Read more...