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The animated, mega-cameo-filled short film Once Upon a Studio is now streaming on Disney+ to celebrate Disney's 100-year anniversary.Read more...

A man accused of murdering a 6-year-old Palestinian boy and grievously wounding his mother in Illinois on Saturday was motivated by misinformation surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, officials say.Read more...

Netflix is touting its new series The Netflix Cup as its first-ever live sports event," which sounds at first like a retreat of sorts from the streamer's assurance in late 2022 that it wouldn't be adding sports packages to its offerings. But if you look a little closer, this is more of a celebrity golf...Read more...

Frank Herbert's sci-fi classicDune ends with an intense showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha, two sides of an epic war that'll decide the fate of a trade, a planet, and a galaxy. In the film adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Atreides is once again played by Timothee Chalamet, and Feyd-Rautha, the heir-apparent to...Read more...

After a more widespread rollout this week of its tirade against ad blockers, YouTube began its roll out of dozens of new features for its mobile app Tuesday.Read more...

This weekend, SAG-AFTRA and NAVA-the National Association for Voice Actors-teamed up for a panel at New York Comic Con about AI in entertainment. Moderator Lindsay Rousseau, who is also a voice actress, introduced the panel by explaining that right now there are no legal or legislative protections for our voices, and...Read more...

Around 11 miles above Earth's surface, leftover bits from rockets and spacecraft are lingering in our planet's atmosphere that could potentially have a lasting effect on the climate.Read more...

Snapchat introduced two new features Tuesday for users to embed content on their profiles or stories into a website. The social media platform added web embeds for its Lenses, Spotlight videos, public stories and public profiles for users to share an article or website with their followers easily.Read more...

The probably-not-so final film from the legendary Hayao Miyazaki has just shared its stellar English voice dub cast.Read more...

The Biden administration laid out new restrictions on Tuesday to limit the primary and secondary sale of United States-made chips to China, according to a CNBC report. The move is an effort to limit the nation's technological and military progress.Read more...

Like all big superheroes, Spider-Man has been played and voiced by a variety of different people over the decades. There's a certain art to the wallcrawler that a number of voice actors have managed to perfect in recent years, and among those is longtime performer Yuri Lowenthal. Known for a number of roles during the...Read more...

Blue Origin revealed plans for a new spacecraft platform with the potential to reshape in-space logistics, offering unprecedented maneuverability and a host of advanced capabilities.Read more...

Nearly 60 years to the day that Doctor Who began airing, next month, the BBC will launch an unprecedented collection of over 800 episodes from the show's distant and not-so-distant past on its streaming platform, iPlayer-the first of its kind from the corporation. But it turns out that the very first story that kicked...Read more...

The days of Terminator and The Matrix could be closer to reality as the artificial intelligence wave continues to crash. A U.S. think tank released a report arguing that the AI that guides the likes of ChatGPT and those dystopian influencers from Meta could be used to create a new bioweapon.Read more...

What, you thought Tiffany Valentine, queen of tawdry glam, would drab herself down like any other inmate? Relish her jailhouse style in this exclusive clip from Chucky's third episode, which sees Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) visiting Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), hoping she'll provide some desperately needed information.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday he is rolling out an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan in light of the growing risks" of the technology. Adams said at a press conference that he hopes to use AI responsibly to improve quality of life for New Yorkers."Read more...

Still on a high from launching back-to-back missions to the Moon and Sun, India is now ready to test its ability to send astronauts to space.Read more...

President Joe Biden's presidential campaign launched its account on former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform on Monday. The reason? They thought it would be funny, according to an X post.Read more...

Apple's Newsroom announced the new Apple Pencil on Tuesday. It's more affordable than its predecessors and offers some new features.

Get another new look at The Boy and The Heron. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters teases Godzilla's return in a new poster. Plus, American Horror Stories returns in a new teaser for its four-part event series. Spoilers now!

The wait is almost over for the release of Universal Pictures and Blumhouse's Five Nights at Freddy's.Read more...

New York Comic Con 2023 is at an end, and with it the book is closed on one of the most peculiar versions of the show in a long while-with the long shadow of Hollywood's summer of labor reckonings and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike making for an event with some severely constrained splashiness.

One of Disney's darkest shows may soon get a live-action revival. James Wan, the man who helped reinvent horror with Saw and Insidious (and made the mega-blockbusters Furious 7 and Aquaman) is teaming up with frequent collaborator Gary Dauberman to turn the 1990s Disney cartoon Gargoyles into a live-action series for...Read more...

Critical Role's panel at New York Comic Con was full of questions about the popular web series-including its guest stars, recurring villains, and Matt Mercer's uncanny ability to bring NPCs back from the dead. Or out of the shadows, whatever suits the story at any given time.Read more...

Back in August, Netflix announced it would be continuing to build out its gaming realm-introduced with 2021's rollout of mobile games-by testing bringing games to any device where people watch Netflix, including TVs and computers. Now, that plan is inching closer to reality.

It's a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it's cutting about 28% of its staff.Read more...

LinkedIn, the business social networking platform owned by Microsoft, announced Monday it is laying off 668 employees, amounting to more than 3% of its staff, as part of its alleged organizational restructuring efforts. The decision marks the second round of mass layoffs at LinkedIn this year and will impact employee...Read more...

Goosebumps is back, and it's offering a fresh take on R.L. Stine's collection of YA horror for a new age.Read more...

Over the weekend, rumors circulated that Signal, one of the most trusted encrypted chat apps on the web, had a pretty bad zero-day vulnerability. The claims, which have now been all but debunked, swiftly caused a panic in the infosec community.Read more...

Twitch users may start receiving some potentially annoying push notifications from their Twitch subscriptions. Streamers on the streaming mobile app now have access to the Twitch Stories feature, letting creators share short content and promote their channels much like they can on Snapchat and Instagram.Read more...

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team requested a higher, longer-lasting dose of Adderall on Sunday night, so their client can meaningfully participate in his ongoing trial.Read more...

Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings.

Russian doctors have stumbled upon a remarkable tale of survival. They detail finding a needle that has been lodged inside an 80-year-old woman's brain her entire life. The needle seems to be the result of a botched infanticide, but it has apparently caused no major health issues and will not be removed.Read more...

Another year, anotherNew York Comic Con is in the books. NYCC always brings out the best and brightest in terms of cosplay so we just had to grace you with one more heaping helping of amazing photos. You saw day one, you saw day two, you may have even seen day three, and here's the big finale.

A team of paleoanthropologists has assembled the only known cranium of the extinct ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, revealing how the ape's face looked. The reconstruction allows them to place Pierolapithecus on the hominid family tree and improves our understanding of how the ape moved around Spain some 12 million...Read more...

New research suggests that Eli Lilly's tirzepatide can boost existing efforts to lose weight. The company's latest clinical trial found that people who dropped at least 5% of their weight before taking the drug went on to lose substantially more weight than those who took a placebo. Those in the treatment group...Read more...

New York residents eyeing a new 3D printer may soon have to submit a criminal background check if a newly proposed state bill becomes law. The recently introduced legislation, authored by state senator Jenifer Rajkumar, aims to snub out an increasingly popular loophole where convicted felons who would otherwise be...Read more...

Supporting himself with a cane, Michael Rooker still managed to grab hold of the spotlight on stage at New York Comic Con along with his fellow stars of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The 68-year-old actor known for playing roles like Yondu in Guardians and Merle Dixon in The Walking Dead stole the show despite...Read more...

On Monday, Analoguerevealed that it will release a recreation of the Nintendo 64 console, the Analogue 3D, which will play cartridges like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 4K.Read more...

A new Gallup survey found more than half of teenagers in the U.S. spend an average of 4.8 hours on social media each day. The responses came from 1,591 people ages 13-19 years old, and the survey's findings show that as teens got older, they stayed on social media even longer.Read more...

In 2018, Wizards of the Coast made a major change to the way Magic: The Gathering was sold when it split the then-standard booster pack of cards into two different varieties: Draft Boosters, focused on the game's build-and-play formats, and Set Boosters, aimed at people looking to fill out collecting a set. Now, it's...Read more...

Apple's iPhone lost its top spot among Chinese smartphones, according to a Jefferies analyst note originally reported by CNBC. A lackluster release of the iPhone 15 allowed Huawei to replace the iPhone as the number one spot for market share.

Bethany Jacobs' debut novel, These Burning Stars, hits shelves tomorrow-but io9 has the first chapter here for you to read today. Do you like sci-fi tales of revenge, dark secrets from the past that threaten to re-emerge, and thieves plotting schemes on forgotten planets? Read on for more!

It's Taylor Swift's world, and we're all just living in it. In an economy racked with corporate greed-induced hyperinflation and a population evermore saddled with student loan debt, younger generations are apparently more interested in shelling out for experiences over at-home tech luxuries-and Best Buy's CEO says...Read more...

The Moon took a big chomp out of the Sun this weekend, and photographers across the Americas were ready to capture the celestial feast. Dive into our slideshow to experience the mesmerizing moments of this annular eclipse.Read more...

There's a calamity on the horizon if you believe Gary Gensler, Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). America's top Wall Street watchdog has issued a dire warning about artificial intelligence: if regulators don't act now, Gensler said it's nearly unavoidable" that AI will trigger a financial...Read more...

There are fewer than 100 wild ocelots left in Texas, and it's no wonder: their habitats have been broken up by highways and other human infrastructure. Conservationists in the state set up gated areas along the busy State Highway 100 in hopes of protecting these special cats, and images from camera traps now reveal...Read more...

NASA is considering reducing the budget for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope as the space agency grapples with its spending for the upcoming year.Read more...

With near seamlessness, Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden have taken over the voices of Rick and Morty. Justin Roiland, the co-creator of the show and the former voice actor for both characters, was fired last year after accusations of domestic abuse and engendering a toxic workplace. The two voice actors were kept a...Read more...