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Here at io9, we're massive fans of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans' fantastic RPG-horror series Die-an incredible, grippingly subversive tale of tabletop fantasies that was, in fact, so good at homaging the tabletop experience it just straight up became a pretty great one of those eventually, too. But now, Hans and...Read more...

Some Intel and Lenovo products have an unfixable bug in their firmware that could allow the devices to be hacked. The bug in question has sat unpatched for years and will never be patched because the impacted products have been deemed end-of-life" and won't receive any additional software updates. While the...Read more...

It's been two weeks since I saw Alex Garland's Civil War, and I still can't get its chilling final minutes out of my head. Several major things happen in the waning moments of the film, adding an avalanche of emotions on top of everything you've already been feeling. The film is powerful and tense enough on its...Read more...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a Moon mission game in Fortnite that lets you bounce around on the lunar surface, picking up resources and building a habitat in the same way future astronauts will establish human presence on Earth's dusty satellite.Read more...

Sure, Apple may already have its M3 chip, one it dropped a little more than a year after the M2 saw the light of day. Sure, the company's M-series silicon line has already proved a standout among computer processors, but even that wasn't enough. According to the latest rumblings from the corner of 1 Infinite Loop,...Read more...

Spring may have sprung, the clocks gone forward, and it might be getting warmer again, but when you're Hallmark, the holiday season is forever-and never too far enough to start advertising your bizarre pop culture tree ornaments. And this year, those ornaments are glaring back at you.

Elon Musk is removing the ability for X Premium users to hide their blue checkmarks, once a Twitter status symbol turned into a shameful receipt of payment for boosted posts, according to a notification sent to users on Thursday.Read more...

There's still almost a year until audiences get to see their brand new Captain America, Sam Wilson, on the big screen-but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige still decided it was time to debut the first footage from Captain America: Brave New World at CinemaCon 2024.Read more...

More Americans are moving out of big cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City, opting for less dense areas where their dollar can go farther. As the housing market skyrockets in these cities and their surrounding areas, a household income of $100,000 just doesn't stretch as much as it used to.Read more...

The new 28 Years Later saga may have tapped The Marvels' Nia DaCosta. Paramount wants to reboot Scary Movie. Plus, get another look at If, and more details about Smile 2 from Cinemacon. Spoilers, away!

Elon Musk has spent his entire career making predictions about the future. Some of those ideas have panned out-mostly thanks to his brilliant team of people at SpaceX. But for every promise Musk has helped make a reality through a company like SpaceX, there are many more the billionaire would probably like people to...Read more...

There's exactly one Marvel Studios movie coming to theaters this year, but it's one of the biggest to date. Deadpool & Wolverine is scheduled for release on July 26 and it won't only be the first MCU film for Ryan Reynolds' wisecracking killer, but also the MCU debut of Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman.Read more...

Few singular words in the long canon of the X-Men's comic book history evoke the weight of mutantkind's story of survival and extinction than Genosha." The island nation is a fundamental turning point in the comics' long exploration of mutant statehood and the metaphor at large-one that has resonated throughout...Read more...

Hidden deep in a California valley near Walt Disney Animation Studios is the testing ground for all the technology seen at Disney Parks and experiences around the world. It's a top secret area, but io9 and other members of the press were recently invited in for an up-close look at the animatronics for Tiana's Bayou...Read more...

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Apple has announced that it's relaxing its policy on used parts for iPhone repairs. This makes it easier to fix your broken iPhone and save some cash along the way.

The tech industry is trying to automate art. Be it visual art, filmmaking, novel-writing, or music, Silicon Valley innovators" seem convinced that consumers just can't tell the difference between work created by a passionate, human creative, and automated content delivered via soulless algorithm. It's a terrible...Read more...

As a massive fan of Transformers: The Movie, few films on the upcoming calendar fill me with as much excitement as Transformers One. Directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4), the first animated theatrical Transformers film since that 1986 masterpiece is coming September 13 and, at CinemaCon, Paramount revealed footage...Read more...

Dbrand, a prominent maker of skins for mobile devices and faceplates for consoles, got into some hot water the past few days on social media. What started as making fun of a customer's last name in the most cringe (and arguably racist) way possible, ended up with the company forking over $10,000 to make amends.Read more...

A library in New Jersey issued an urgent statement after learning that the eclipse glasses handed out to its patrons may have been fake.Read more...

The next rendition of iOS 17 is right around the corner, and it's bearing gifts we want and a few better left on the drawing-room table. The latest iOS 17.5 beta includes a hidden game for Apple News+ subscribers called Quartiles. The game features word snippets in five-by-five tiles that players must match to create...Read more...

With theatrical hit Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire currently stomping all over the box office, it's an ideal moment for Legendary's Monsterverse to re-up its small-screen success. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters will return for a second season on Apple TV+. And that's not all-there are more series on the way, too.

Paramount introduced the beloved animated franchise's jump to the big screen at CinemaCon 2024 with Aang: The Last Airbender (the film's working title). The feature enlists an older crew to voice the characters in a feature that takes place presumably after Avatar: The Last Airbender but before The Legend of Korra,...Read more...

Even diehard fans of the 1987 Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, can't be angry about this promising update on its long-teased remake: Edgar Wright is still aboard to direct and produce a new version of the Stephen King novel, and now we know it'll star the in-demand Glen Powell (Twisters, Anyone But You).Read more...

If you don't mind commercial breaks, there's plenty of weird cinema to be found in Freevee's voluminous catalogue. io9 already shared recommendations of squirm-inducing titles you can stream for free on the Amazon service-but there's always room for more unhinged horror and sci-fi in your diet. Here are 10 more for...Read more...

Electrons are typically seen flitting around their atoms, but a team of physicists has now imaged the particles in a very different state: nestled together in a quantum phase called a Wigner crystal, without a nucleus at their core.Read more...

We might be preparing to see the latest take on the TMNT head to screens again with a sequel to the incredible Mutant Mayhem in 2026, but it's not the only turtle power we're going to see on the big screen: the seminal comic miniseries The Last Ronin is coming along for the ride, too.Read more...

Sometimes it's ok to think things, but you can't actually say them," Mackenzie Davis' character tells her daughter in the new trailer for Speak No Evil. That attitude is what gets a family of nice but not-very-assertive people in a lot of trouble in this movie-which, we're going to actually say it, looks like a very faithfu...Read more...

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The massive galaxy that houses our star system, along with hundreds of billions of other stars, appears as a shimmery splotch stretching across our night skies on clear, moonless nights. For an ancient people who were rather obsessed with the cosmos, looking up at the Milky Way may have symbolized a goddess that hangs...Read more...

Well, well, well. If it isn't another iOS-like feature coming to Android. Android already has Bluetooth tracker tracking (say that three times fast) through third-party offerings like Tile. However, Apple came out with its AirTags, which everyone in the walled garden bought, and then Samsung decided to join in with...Read more...

This week, John Jackson Miller returned to the world of Star Wars novels for the first time in years with The Living Force, an excellent look at the state of the Jedi and Republic in the year before The Phantom Menace. His next book is a little more earthbound... but no less wild.

After The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman, few filmmakers are as fascinating as Robert Eggers. So, when Focus Features announced that Eggers' new feature, Nosferatu, was coming out on freaking Christmas day, it seemed like something very unique and special-and, after seeing the first footage from the film, it...Read more...

The three-stage rocket has taken flight on three previous occasions, but today's launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region marks an important first, as Russia seeks to modernize its space program and keep pace with the rest of the world.

Apple dropped the term state-sponsored" from threat notifications sent to users, first reported by Reuters Thursday. Instead, Apple warned iPhone users in India and 91 countries on Wednesday that they were potential victims of a mercenary spyware attack," a term that less directly blames governments behind the...Read more...

First things first: this Dark Matter is not related to the cult-beloved Syfy series of the same name that ended its run in 2017. This new series is based on Blake Crouch's 2016 novel Dark Matter, and despite that not-entirely-original title, the fact that it's coming from Apple TV+-which has a proven track record for...Read more...

The Nintendo Switch has been around the block. To hammer that point home, Nintendo's ultra-successful console celebrated its seventh release anniversary just last month. The little console that is still widely loved for its innovative controllers and portable form factor, so much so the long-speculated Nintendo Switch...Read more...

David Lynch is trying to find a new home for his mysterious animated movie Snootworld. You're gonna have to wait a lot longer for Saw XI. Plus: Somehow, Velma returned! To me, my Spoilers!

New research might help you make the most of your exercising: Scientists tracked the long-term health of people living with obesity and found that those who exercised in the evening were the least likely to experience cardiovascular problems or to die compared to non-exercisers and those who exercised at other times.Read more...

Have you been seeing videos lately claiming to show a point where the Pacific Ocean meets the North Sea, suggesting the two don't mix? It's a nonsense claim for so many reasons, but that hasn't stopped one video from racking up nearly 20 million views by our count.

If you're a cinephile, you're probably deeply grateful for the existence of the Criterion Channel. There are few other places you can go online to see such a diverse set of classic, arthouse, independent, and hard-to-find films. Platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Max have nothing on Criterion. It's the...Read more...

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This month, Disney is celebrating the Season of the Force at its theme parks-new additions to Star Tours, character tweaks at Galaxy's Edge, and more merch and snacks than you can wave a lightsaber at. It's the apex of what the company has done with Star Wars at the parks so far... but a long time ago, in a galaxy...Read more...

One of the most surprising, exciting pieces of movie news so far this year is that writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle are going back to the world of 28 Days Later. Over two decades since the groundbreaking original zombie film and 17 years since its follow-up, the pair are getting ready to make 28 Years...Read more...

The news for Boeing has been bad lately. Real bad. Ever since the press caught wind of reported safety issues involving the global plane manufacturer's production process, the company can't seem to catch a break. After a flight to California lost a part of its hull in January, a seemingly endless string of frightening...Read more...

WASP-76b is a strange world. Located several hundred light-years away, the Jupiter-like planet is tidally locked to its star, has scorching temperatures, and rains molten iron. Recent observations of the hot gas giant reveal it may even have a rainbow-like optical phenomenon that's only been observed on Earth and...Read more...

Microsoft Azure's version of OpenAI's image generator, DALL-E, was pitched as a battlefield tool for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), originally reported by The Intercept Wednesday. The report says Microsoft's sales pitch of Azure OpenAI's tools was delivered in Oct 2023, likely hoping to capitalize on the US...Read more...

The next John Wick will be worth the wait. That was the message Lionsgate had at CinemaCon 2024 as it dropped all new footage from John Wick Presents Ballerina, the now June 2025 release starring Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Lance Reddick, Gabriel Byrne, and Norman Reedus.Read more...

After Gina Carano-with the help of Elon Musk-went to court to protest her firing from The Mandalorian, Disney has moved to throw out the suit.Read more...

In an agreement confirmed earlier today, Japan will tap one of its astronauts to join an upcoming NASA Artemis mission to the Moon. Should it happen, that would make the unnamed Japanese astronaut the first first non-American astronaut to land on the lunar surface.Read more...