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In orbit around Mars since 2014, India’s Mangalyaan spacecraft has suddenly gone silent. Mission controllers are no longer able to communicate with the orbiter, which is assumed to have run out of fuel and battery power, but only after long-exceeding its mission lifespan.

The Nobel Assembly today awarded Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into human origins.Read more...

Hurricane Ian has killed dozens of people. Though the full toll of the storm remains unclear, most deaths have been reported in Lee County, Florida, where Ian made landfall last Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 storm. Reuters reported Monday morning that at least 85 are dead, with 81 of the fatalities in Florida…Read more...

What would you do if you fell in love—with a person who’s your husband in an alternate reality? Things only get stranger and more confusing, not to mention more dangerous, from there for the protagonist of A Fractured Infinity, a new queer sci-fi book from author Nathan Tavares. io9 has a sneak peek to share today!

At first it was technical hurdles, but now a natural disaster has forced a delay to NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. With the rocket tucked inside the space agency’s gigantic assembly building and with normal ground operations set to resume this week, Space Launch System won’t take flight until November 12 at the earliest.Read more...

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Bruce Willis was back in headlines last week as news broke that the actor had seemingly sold the rights to his face to Deepcake, a Russian AI company specializing in deepfakes. Willis’ representatives, however, are contesting these reports.

Mike Dougherty is making a Trick ‘R Treat sequel. Scream 6 teases its timeline after the events of the last movie. The Simpsons takes on It in the next “Treehouse of Horror” episode. Plus, what’s next on Stargirl and House of the Dragon. Spoilers, away!

Several years ago, Google Japan started cooking up weird novelty keyboards as an annual April Fools’ Day prank. Most of the creations, including a working version of Google’s mobile Gboard keyboard wrapped around a cup, are more or less sight gags. They also don’t seem to be bound to April anymore. But this year’s…Read more...

Folks on the Chinese mainland looking to find occasionally garbled translations of foreign languages will be out of luck, as Google announced over the weekend it was pulling back on one of the few digital services it offered in the country.Read more...

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The new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer has just been released. The sequel to Ryan Coogler’s record-breaking first installment is a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, immediately starting the movie—and the trailers—with a funeral. Watch the newest trailer below.

Kim Kardashian has agreed to fork over $1.26 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission after she posted a cryptocurrency ad to Instagram in 2021. Kardashian, who’s worth $1.8 billion, won’t admit wrongdoing but has agreed not to promote any crypto for the next three years, according…Read more...

The famed Kittyhawk air taxi company is no more, but one of the initiatives spawned from its failed attempts to create quiet, fast, and cheap air taxis—Wisk Aero—has a new autonomous aircraft design that the company claims may be the best chance yet to see big yellow school buses buzzing overhead.Read more...

The third act of The Walking Dead’s 11th and final season has begun, but it doesn’t seem like anyone notified the show. Other than a quick montage of familiar faces at the start, with a bit of narration by Judith (Cailey Fleming), it’s an unceremonious continuation of the last episode. Which isn’t a bad thing! But…Read more...

Targaryen blood has been spilled. The unbelievable tension that has been building between Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent (Olivia Cooke) since the beginning erupted in a mesmerizing episode of House of the Dragon where secrets were exposed, Westeros’ ultimate power couple emerged, and someone was pushed way past…Read more...

As it goes every year, the month of October is when horror movies shine. Such a slate for the month includes Halloween Ends and a re-release of Trick ‘r Treat, but first, we’re kicking things off with a Smile. And in terms of box office, Paramount’s newest film is already off to a pretty great start.

We here at io9 have talked at length about cartoons, whether it’s cartoons from our childhoods that we’ve loved, or more recent ones that deserve a wider spotlight. And when it comes to western animation, you can’t talk about it without talking about one channel in particular.

October means Halloween, and Halloween means horror movies and shows to watch. The month boasts some upcoming projects that are sure to be delightful such as the second season of Chucky and Werewolf by Night, and Netflix is getting into the occasion with a new show, Cabinet of Curiosities. Created and produced by …Read more...

Earlier in the week, Marvel up and surprised everyone with the announcement that its Don Cheadle-led miniseries Armor Wars was transitioning into a full blown movie. The apparent reasoning for this was that the studio realized in order to get the story right, it could better be realized as a theatrical release. Given…Read more...

The existence of Warner Bros.’ Black Adam movie has, for the longest time, felt like it wouldn’t come to pass. But here we are, just a handful of weeks away from seeing Dwayne Johnson beat up (or team up with?) the Justice Society of America. Since there’s no real sense in putting out another trailer, Warner Bros.’…Read more...

A week ago, a new bus mascot happily presented itself to the world in Sabadell, a city outside of Barcelona in Spain. For some, it was big, unique, and colorful, with a certain je ne sais quoi. I, like many others, thought it looked like Pixar’s Baymax, Spanish style. Others were taken aback by the mascot, even going…Read more...

Across the decades, there’ve been several truths established in Star Wars franchise: the Jedi doomed themselves, Skywalker men are dramatic as hell, and Figrin D’an and his band the Modal Nodes are the greatest band in the cosmos. The original Star Wars film put them on the map, and now Hasbro’s releasing a new set of…Read more...

There’ve been plenty of movie reboots in various stages of development hell over the decades, but none quite so famously as that of 1994's The Crow. In that time, there’ve been starts and stops (and stops, and stops) in getting the reboot off the ground. So when the news broke earlier this year that It’s Bill…Read more...

Tarzan isn’t exactly what you’d call a popular character in the current culture landscape. While folks age 24 and older may fondly remember the 1999 Disney movie, the most recent version of the character Warner Bros.’ 2016 film The Legend of Tarzan starring Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie, didn’t exactly have…Read more...

Next week, Marvel Studios debuts its first ever holiday special in the form of Werewolf by Night. Directed and scored by composer Michael Giacchino, the special aims to officially take the MCU into the world of horror monsters in the supernatural by way of monster hunters Jack Russell (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Elsa…Read more...

As our lives become more digital, they’ve also become more searchable. Today, lots of people can find out personal information about you—phone number, physical address—with a simple Google search. This is not always ideal, or, frankly, comfortable. Google knows this, and it’s giving ordinary people the chance to scrub…Read more...

A prototype of the Tesla robot has finally arrived and dear God it is just as ridiculous as we’d hoped.Read more...

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While this originally started as a list of alternative Trading Card Game deck builders, it quickly spun out into a list of games that use unique decks of cards. Some of these are deck builders, where you create a custom deck of cards from a pre-made selection to play against other people (Magic: The Gathering, for…Read more...

Twenty-two civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Demand Progress, and theElectronic Frontier Foundation have signed a letter accusing the Pentagon and the executive branch of exploiting a legal loophole to surveil Americans absent congressional oversight or approval from the courts.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round-up of the latest toy news on the internet. This week, Hot Toys’ Star Wars shelf grows with a little help from The Mandalorian’s finest sheriff, the best Metroid suit gets an incredible action figure, and Hasbro rings in the season with some Star Wars cheer. Check it out!

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The consequences for Pacific Gas & Electric’s negligent involvement in the ignition of multiple deadly wildfires across California continue to mount. A group of 20 former executives at the utility company reached a $117 million settlement regarding the 2017 North Bay fires and 2018 Camp fire Thursday, the Los Angeles…Read more...

I’ve never been more distracted than when I wasn’t using Focus Mode on my corral of smartphones. Phones are my thing here at Gizmodo, and since I tend to run a handful of devices concurrently, you can imagine that most of my work days are peppered with random choruses of vibrating aluminum. It makes it so that I can’t…Read more...

Can you hear that diabolical cackle? Chucky returns soon! The hit horror series continues the killer doll’s reign of terror that began with Child’s Play back in 1988 with a sly, campy sense of humor and a remarkable ability to evolve with the times. At a recent Chucky press day, io9 got a chance to learn more about…Read more...

The history of consumer electronics is dotted with failures, like the vastly superior Betamax tape format, or 3D TVs, but one device that’s been especially difficult to convince consumers to buy has been robots. The technology at our disposal still hasn’t caught up to what everyone expects a bot to be able to do for…Read more...

NASA has signed an agreement with SpaceX to test the feasibility of using a commercial crew to raise the orbit of Hubble and extend its lifespan.Read more...

Ever since Robert Eggers announced his arrival on the auteur filmmaking scene with 2015's The Witch, he’s let it be known that he intended to tackle an adaptation of vampire classic Nosferatu. That project is finally ramping up, with a killer cast announced today.Read more...

Ever since Amazon launched Astro—its stout, doe-eyed, autonomously mobile domestic robot—its been a curious sight to behold. When first unveiled last summer, a wealth of tech journos rushed to call the bot “cute” while others, myself included, found it creepy. All of us, however, were basically left wondering what the…Read more...

Welcome back to io9's monthly Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most.Read more...

Molly Russell, a 14-year old from London who died of self-inflicted injuries in 2017, didn’t die by suicide, according to a senior British coroner who examined her.Read more...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg can’t duck and weave the jabbing questions that he’s responsible for buying out the entire arena for a major UFC show this Saturday. The rolling speculation has even started to claim that the Z-man himself wants to hop into the Octagon and test his mettle against a live opponent.Read more...

The Sanderson Sisters are back! Hocus Pocus 2 is now streaming on Disney+, just in time for pumpkin spice season and repeat viewings in the lead-up to Halloween. io9 recently participated in the press conference for the film with the cast and creative team to discuss the making of the movie and why it t00k 29 years to…Read more...

It’s been a little over a year since Elon Musk trotted a person in a spandex suit out on stage and called them a prototype robot. Now, he’s teasing that we’ll actually get to see one of his many, many promises escape the vapor at tonight’s Tesla AI Day. Or, at least, he says we’ll see enough of the robot for him to …Read more...

Elon Musk’s private texts were included in new court filings on Thursday as part of the lawsuit brought by Twitter to make the billionaire buy the social media company. And whatever you think of Musk’s weird attempt to back out of the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, the texts provide a fascinating…Read more...

The days of eavesdropping on the New York Police Department may be coming to an end.Read more...

A former employee at the National Security Agency (NSA) has been charged with attempting to transmit classified defense information to a representative of a foreign government. He was arrested on Wednesday and made his initial appearance at a federal court on Thursday.Read more...

Is it too much to ask for social media companies to come up with something new? Apparently so, since all of them are determined to copy rival TikTok’s every move. The newest copycat is Twitter. Yes, that Twitter, the last platform in your mental list of places to go to watch “cool” or “interesting” videos.Read more...

Have you watched a Marvel Studios show on Disney+ and thought “I wish this was just a movie?” Well that just happened with development of the upcoming Armor Wars. The show, which stars Don Cheadle as War Machine, was being developed as a follow up from the events in next year’s Secret Invasion but now, it turns out,…Read more...