Gizmodo

Even with a $3,500 price tag for the Vision Pro headset, Meta now still has to consider Apple one of its competitors in the VR space, so today the company announced another reason for consumers to opt for its more affordable Quest hardware with a new subscription service delivering two new titles every month.Read more...

The largest rocket to ever take flight requires a substantial number of upgrades ahead of its second test flight, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed this past weekend.

I've long been skeptical of foldable phones. I've had to bite my tongue to stop myself going as far to call them an expensive gimmick. Then Google's $1,800 Pixel Fold comes into my life, and suddenly I'm enamored by the thought of dual screens. Google's entry into the foldables category is pitched as combining the...Read more...

We've already had a small tease of the more-than-slightly anticipated Walking Dead spin-off so imaginatively titled Daryl Dixon, where the eponymous hero can be seen floating unconscious on a boat in what is presumably the Atlantic ocean on his way to France. Now, AMC has released a two-minute preview... and if you...Read more...

A bridge that crosses over the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed on Saturday morning, dropping parts of a freight train into the river below, authorities said.Read more...

You might see an Amazon package next time you visit the bodega, the florist, the coffee shop, or any one thousands of other small businesses that will deliver packages in 23 US states as part of an effort by the company to beef up its Amazon Hub Delivery" program. The expansion is the latest attempt by Amazon to turn...Read more...

A chapter of internet history has come to a close. One of the cybercriminals behind 2020's major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O'Connor (AKA PlugwalkJoe"), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pleaded guilty to seven charges associated with the digital attack....Read more...

Read more...

There's very little the Flash can't outrun, but it seems audience interest is one of those things. The Flash movie, which opened to a significantly less-than-expected box office of $55 million, way down from Warner Bros.' expected/optimistically hoped-for $75 million. But if that was the Flash stumbling, the hero has...Read more...

There's bound to be a few extra emergency calls when 80,000 people descend upon your city for a weekend music and arts festival, but according to authorities in Coffee County, Tennessee, the iPhone 14's automatic crash detection was responsible for a spike in false 911 calls at Bonnaroo as it mistook revelers'...Read more...

Netflix announced that Canadian users will no longer have access to its cheapest streaming subscription tier that doesn't include ads. Netflix's help page now notes Canadians looking to get Netflix or switch plans will no longer have access to the $9.99 Basic option. Their choices now are to accept ads into their...Read more...

In 1970, the renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found an ancient, nondescript leg bone sitting on the ground in Ileret, Kenya. Now, 53 years on, a research team has found marks on the bone they believe could be evidence of systematic cannibalism" in the hominin fossil record.Read more...

Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, and Anna Kendrick are all set to join the new French sci-fi drama The Assessment. The cast and crew of Disney's Haunted Mansion discuss the classic ride. Plus, John Hamm experiences the concept of Tea in a new Good Omens season 2 clip. Spoilers now!

It's now consensus that Neanderthals were complex, social cousins of Homo sapiens that disappeared from the Earth around 40,000 years ago. But our lost relatives just became more complex, with the discovery of ancient cave engravings in France that appear to be their handiwork.

If you've got a road trip planned this summer, you've no doubt got Apple Maps or Google Maps ready and waiting to get you from place to place, as well as a music, podcast, or audiobook app to provide audio accompaniment for the journey. However, there are plenty more apps out there that can make your traveling a whole...Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy and merch news across this internet. This week, Hasbro keeps on the Transformers train, with multiple Primes and a Primal for good measure. Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventuresgets a cutesy plush line, and be ready to embrace the new flesh: a new...Read more...

Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild, is reportedly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to replace certain editorial roles, in an effort to cut costs.Read more...

There've been a lot of adaptations of Marvel's Spider-Man over the years, particularly in live-action. One that you might not know about released in 1973, and because it's turning 50 years old in November, a new documentary is aiming to shed some light on the cult film.

TV shows getting big to the point where they warrant a full-on movie doesn't always happen. But when it does, it's significant in some kind of way, even if it's just the fact that the creators involved managed to pull it off in the first place. And in the case of the movie for CBS' Twilight Zone, its significance is...Read more...

Splitting films into multiple parts is still a fairly recent phenomenon, and 2023 has multiple Chapter One" movies playing in theaters. In addition to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the first movie in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon saga is coming in December, Fast X was its own Part One" back in May, and next month...Read more...

It's always exciting when a new anime becomes the talk of the town, and one of last year's hits in that regard was Spy x Family. The adaptation of Tetsuya Endo's action series quickly became a fan favorite, and it's returning later this year in the form of both season two and its first-ever movie.

If you were a kid back in the late 90s, you were likely aware of Furbys. Much like Pokemon, Power Rangers, Barbie, etc., they were something of a sensation, and have existed off and on for nearly 30 years now. (And if you didn't have one, you surely heard about how creepy they are at some point in your life.) With...Read more...

An overheating phone is something you want to avoid: It can impact the performance of your device, degrade the battery, and even cause permanent damage to the phone (and anything in close proximity to it). As we go into the summer months, spending more time outside, the risk of your phone going from hot to dangerously...Read more...

Back at the start of the year, the anime series for Nier: Automata released, and its release schedule has been all over the place. Early into its run, it had to take a hiatus, reportedly due to COVID-19, that saw it off the air for nearly a few months. When it returned in February, it seemed like that was the end of...Read more...

Location-wise, superheroes tend to operate in two modes. Either they're firmly in one city, with occasional stops at other places nearby, or they're gallivanting around basically anywhere in the world (or galaxy, in some cases). It can be dizzying sometimes, to the point that you might need a map to keep track of...Read more...

Multiverses have been all the rage as of late, to the point that even Sega got in on it with its iconic mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. In last year's Sonic Prime series for Netflix, the Blue Blur (voiced by Devon Mack) ended up breaking the Paradox Prism, which in turn created an assortment of alternate realities...Read more...

NASA's Martian explorer, MAVEN, captured Earth's neighboring planet in fascinating detail, revealing the changing seasons on Mars as it orbits around the Sun.Read more...

Earlier in the month, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP). Because the WGA Strike is about to reach its second month, and SAG-AFTRA may also strike (depending on how things shake out soon), it initially seemed like the...Read more...

Russia is ramping up its efforts in the Ukraine war by doubling the number of its pens holding trained dolphins near the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, the UK defense intelligence agency said on Friday. The British bureau's satellites captured images of expanding enclosures it said contain bottle-nosed dolphins.Read more...

The saga of the Titan has come to a close. After disappearing over the weekend, the Titanic-bound submersible left Americans in a state of suspense for several days, forcing us to drop whatever we were doing and focus instead on the epic manhunt unfolding throughout large parts of the Atlantic. The hope was that the...Read more...

States from every part of the country are racing to pass new legislation barring young users from accessing social media and other online services without first obtaining consent from their parents. From Texas to New Jersey, lawmakers are preparing to enforce strict, constitutionally dubious laws that could...Read more...

Sure, winning an Oscar is huge for an actor-but making your Marvel Cinematic Universe debut is also kind of a biggie. While we were thrilled when Olivia Colman was cast in Disney+ series Secret Invasion, we did sort of wonder why she wanted to sign on. Now we know: she's a fan, too.Read more...

Although the first episode of Marvel's Secret Invasion series only premiered Wednesday, people can't stop talking about its, um, final moments. Maria Hill, who's been played by Cobie Smulders since 2012's The Avengers, has weighed in on what she thinks happened. The news has already pervaded most of the nerdernet, but...Read more...

Today Wizards of the Coast launched one of the biggest external collaborations it has ever done with Magic: The Gathering-Tales of Middle-earth, an entire expansion dedicated to the world of Tolkien's beloved fantasy works. If you're a Lord of the Rings fan intrigued by all the gorgeous art, but a Magic neophyte, we...Read more...

A vast and barren lakebed in eastern Nevada has become an unexpected battleground in a spaceflight vs. battery tech showdown. A portion of land slated for lithium mining in the state is no longer free for development after federal forces intervened. But extraction companies and Republican lawmakers want to reverse the...Read more...

After taking 2020 and 2021 off for obvious reasons, San Diego Comic-Con felt almost like the good old days when it returned for 2022. But 2023 has brought some new challenges for the long-running convention: thanks to the ongoing WGA strike and a likely SAG-AFTRA strike, many major studios and streamers will be...Read more...

Paul McCartney is speaking out about the widely discussed final" Beatles song that will be released later this year. The song was reimagined using artificial intelligence, McCartney clarified in a recent interview but says it was not created by AI.Read more...

Diabetes cases are likely to skyrocket over the next few decades, new research out this week has found. The study estimates that more than a billion people worldwide will be living with the chronic condition by 2050-roughly double the amount of cases seen today. The prevalence of diabetes is expected to be especially...Read more...

Update 6/23/2023, 4:24 P.M. ET: A Washington state official has announced that the WA Transportation Department also plans to require Tesla's NACS connectors on future, federally-funded EV chargers. It hasn't necessarily been tested and certified for other auto manufacturers, so we want to make sure it's going to...Read more...

It's in the picture! Aqua's relentlessly catchyBarbie Girl" will indeed be in Greta Gerwig's Barbiemovie-thanks to noted Barbie aficionado Nicki Minaj and her soundtrack needle drop with Ice Spice, Barbie World," which samples the 1997 track.Read more...

The man in the hat is back." After a 15-year absence, Harrison Ford brings back one of his most iconic characters next week when Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny hits theaters. It's the first Indy film not directed by Steven Spielberg (though he produced it), but in his place is the more than capable James...Read more...

The cinematic adventures of Goku, Vegeta, and the rest of the Z Warriors are (cha la) heading (cha la) to Crunchyroll. The anime streaming service has announced that 15 movies-including all 14 Dragon Ball Z films, and one from its sequel series, Dragon Ball Super-will soon become available all over the world.

At least two people in New Mexico have died from a rare but dangerous form of hantavirus infection so far in 2023, local health officials reported this week. Four other residents have been hospitalized, though they ultimately survived. These viruses are primarily contracted through exposure to rodents, including their...Read more...

Paramount+ had previously given the go-ahead to a second season of kid-focused animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, but the series has now been cancelled ahead of that. Additionally, the Hollywood Reporter notes, Prodigy will be removed from the streaming platform altogether.Read more...

Whether it's diving to the depths of the ocean or flying to the edge of space, the risks associated with extreme tourism haven't deterred wealthy billionaires and other privileged individuals from buying their way to severe environments. The recent loss of the five passengers on board the submersible vessel, however,...Read more...

This week Star Trek: Strange New Worlds took us on an enlightened spin on a Trek classic: the courtroom drama, where spaceships and scientific ponderings give way to our Starfleet heroes sitting down and having even more fancy chats than they usually do. It's a format the franchise has been obsessed with since the...Read more...

While Reddit's recent moderator-led protests against the company's new API pricing have been loud, dramatic, and sympathetic to most, they don't seem to have affected traffic to the social media platform in a significant way, according to new data.Read more...

When making an Indiana Jones movie, there's a certain checklist you need to complete. Get back Harrison Ford. John Williams does the music. And, of course, make sure the character has a really cool relic to go after.Read more...

The boys are back in town. Except, technically, they're not boys," but hermaphroditic land snails. Also, the town" in question is three separate counties in central and southern Florida. Let's try this again: Giant African land snails, a potentially devastating invasive species, have re-appeared in three Florida...Read more...

Meta is sticking to its guns-the social networking giant says it will follow through with its threat to cut off Canadians' access to news on Facebook and Instagram following the passage of the hotly contested Online News Act. The news shutdown could significantly rattle news access for the more than 20 million...Read more...