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Apple is making progress on a cheaper version of the Vision Pro according to Bloomberg's reliable leaker Mark Gurman. We also got some new rumors about the upcoming M3-based MacBook Pro and MacBook Air as well as the possibility that the release of the Apple Pencil 3 is imminent.

Matthew Vaughn, the guy who brought us comic book adaptations like X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass and Kingsmen: The Secret Service, has a new movie that seems akin to Stranger Than Fiction if it were directed by, well, Matthew Vaughn. At least, that's what it seems on its face.

Australia's eSafety commissioner fined X, formerly called Twitter, on Sunday for failing to meet the country's Online Safety Act requirements. Australia accused the social media platform of not taking the necessary steps to tackle child sexual exploitation content on X, including sexual extortion and live-streaming...Read more...

Goldman Sachs' third-quarter earnings may be the final straw for the Apple Card as the Wall Street giant faces internal pressure to exit the consumer-lending space. The Apple partnership has long been seen as a distraction from Goldman's core business, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In regards to the...Read more...

Sequels often have a scope problem, especially superheroic ones. Your hero's been established, they've come into their own, and now the temptation is that to test them you have to throw everything and the kitchen sink at them almost immediately. Go big or go home! Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is certainly no exception to...Read more...

New York Comic Con just wrapped, and we've got updates from The Changeling, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. There was also some absolutely epic cosplay, so you should check out our slideshows of some of the great costumes we saw during the three days we were there. But don't put your...Read more...

Close to 15 years after its release, Minecraft is more popular than ever. The game is already one of the highest-selling games of all time, but on Monday the Microsoft-owned company Mojang declared it crossed the threshold of 300 million copies sold.

Meta's flirtation with innovation has been, at best, poorly panning out and, at worst, delightfully creepy. The latter best describes the case of the tech company's new foray into AI with machine-generated personas.Read more...

You can add supernova spotting to the laundry list of accolades attributed to artificial intelligence. This week, a collaboration of astronomers led by Northwestern University said they have developed the world's first AI-assisted, fully automatic supernova detection, identification, and classification system. The...Read more...

In space, no one can hear you tinkle. But just to be sure, Space Perspective has designed a luxuriously private bathroom experience on board its balloon-propelled capsules.Read more...

I've tried them both, and the new Meta Quest 3 is no Apple Vision Pro. At least as far as presenting a hyper-realistic mixed reality experience that overlays virtual objects and experiences into the real world while preventing you from bumping into the furniture. And for $500, versus $3,500 for Apple's...Read more...

Halloween isn't for another two weeks, but that doesn't matter when it's New York Comic-Con. All weekend, we've been sharing cool cosplay that we've seen on the show floor, and we've got one final showcase to close things out.Read more...

Matthew Vaughn has been in the filmmaking game since 1996, but he's perhaps best known for 2010's Kick-Ass and 2014's Kingsman: The Secret Service. His upcoming movie Argyllehas made sure to put the latter movie front and center for its marketing, and it's likely there are diehard fans hoping for some kind of...Read more...

In the same way that Marvel Comics has imprints for stories featuring alternate universe versions of its characters, DC Comics has that in Elseworlds. But that line disappeared after 2010, and was semi-replaced with similar enough imprints like Earth One (which was similarly short-lived), the Black Label, and the...Read more...

Since 2009, Archer has been a reliable (sometimes award-winning) staple of adult animation and FX's larger TV lineup. Having gone through multiple reinventions and status quo changes, it's almost hard to imagine the show actually ending-which it did just a few days ago.

During its New York Comic-Con panel for its upcoming shows, Prime Video revealed the full cast for its animated musical series, Hazbin Hotel. Based on the popular 2019 YouTube video from creator Vivienne Medrano, the streamer first teased the A24-backed series at the end of September.

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.

New York Comic Con is here, and Netflix came ready to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Scott Pilgrim comics next year with the latest look at its new animated adaptation of Brian Lee O'Malley's seminal series.

It's that time of year once again, folks, where New York becomes filled with fans and cosplayers due to New York Comic-Con. And as io9 likes to do, we've got a slideshow featuring some of the coolest-looking cosplay seen on the show floor.

Marvel Comics likes to use either of the two big yearly Comic-Cons to reveal their big plans for the following year. 2023's been an eventful time for the publisher, and that momentum will be continuing throughout 2024 in some big ways-mainly as it pertains to the X-Men and the returning Ultimate Universe.

The first season of Invincible was a fun, delightful little show about young Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) coming into his own as a superhero and trying to live up to the legacy of his father Omni-Man (JK Simmons). It was also extremely violent right out the gate, in ways that often made for incredible animated superhero...Read more...

Ever since Mortal Kombat 9, NetherRealm Studios has thrown in a crossover character or three into their fighting games. The Injustice games have had Hellboy and the Ninja Turtles, for example, but the Mortal Kombat games have been especially cameo-heavy in this regard: Mortal Kombat X featured Alien, Predator, and Leat...Read more...

LaKeith [Stanfield] came into The Changeling with such dedication," said Jonathan Van Tulleken, an executive producer/director on The Changeling. I think it's very rare to see an actor who brings his level of commitment to the set, and who is always digging through sort of the personal resonance in himself as well...Read more...

Dragon Ball Super's anime adaptationended over five years ago, and though the franchise has been kept alive with various games, movies, and a web series, there hasn't had a proper mainline anime installment since. Fortunately, that's about to change in a big way with the release of Dragon Ball Daima.

Over the decades, there've been various interpretations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in film and TV. Some stories play things fairly straight, but others offer some kind of new (and often humorous) take on the titular monster: what if the monster were one of Dracula's best friends, or what if he was tasked with savin...Read more...

Author Victor LaValle and showrunner Kelly Marcel spoke to io9 at a press line after the panel for Apple TV+'s adaptation of The Changeling, talking about how to work within the confines of the novel, and when to push the boundaries of what's on the page.

The first season of Daryl Dixon, a Walking Dead spinoff featuring Norman Reedus' incredibly popular character, was primarily filmed in France. This is a far cry from the Senoia, Georgia locale where The Walking Dead had been filmed for nearly a decade. When the team landed in Europe, they quickly found out that the...Read more...

Over 15 years ago, the original The Strangers movie became a cult classic horror film for its atmosphere and simple premise of a couple being terrorized by a trio of masked invaders. While it eventually got a sequel in 2018's The Strangers: Prey at Night, Lionsgate wants the gap between installments to be considerably...Read more...

Research out this week appears to show the potential longevity of transplanted organs from genetically engineered pigs. Scientists gave monkeys kidneys from these animals, finding that some were able to live for one to two years. Many of the genetic changes evaluated in this study could make pig-to-human transplants a...Read more...

Remember the Whole Earth Catalog? If you're a fan of the anarcho-libertarian magazine that helped usher in a popular interest in all things tech and internet culture, there's good news: a nearly complete collection of the publication's archive has been digitized and uploaded to the web for easy browsing.

The Changeling (adapted from the novel by Victor LaValle) wrapped its first season on Apple TV+ today with a finale that had more than its fair share of cliffhangers... literally. Check out this exclusive clip to see what we mean.

It's October, which basically means it's Halloween, which basically means it's Thanksgiving, which basically means it's Christmas. So yes, it's Christmas time, and that means it's also time to pick out the geekiest holiday ornaments Hallmark has in store for 2023.Read more...

Did you check out V/H/S/85, the latest entry in the long-running found-footage horror anthology series, when it hit Shudder last week? A hell of a lot of people did: it was the most-watched film premiere of the year for Shudder and AMC+. It comes as no surprise that a seventh V/H/S entry is officially on the way, this...Read more...

Google says it will defend users in a legal setting if copyright issues arise with their generative artificial intelligence. It joins the ranks of other big tech players who have done the same.

The game Five Nights at Freddy'sgained an immense cult following not just for its jump scares, as popularized by the then-burgeoning let's play" YouTube channels back in 2014, but for the swath of theories and hidden lore behind the series' murderous animatronics and the history of the haunted Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Wahoo, wahee," indeed. After months of speculation, Nintendo affirmed the new VO actor for Mario is the Los Angeles-based voice actor Kevin Afghani.

The Biden administration announced plans on Friday to award up to $7 billion to construct regional hubs throughout the U.S. that support making and using hydrogen, in hopes of phasing out fossil fuels and slowing down climate change.

Loki season two, episode two, Breaking Bad," finds Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) chasing X-5 (Rafael Casal) to find out if he's located Sylvie (Sophia di Martino). The Marvel Studios series jumps right back into the time crunch to save multiple timeline branches as they're getting pruned.

In a scene seemingly pulled directly out of Cyberpunk 2077, DARPA, the army's top research and development arm, is reportedly exploring ways to defend Army soldiers against cognitive attacks" that could result in them puking under their HoloLens mixed reality headsets. Future wars, it seems, will be fought with guts...Read more...

It's a fun time to be a Hellboy fan right now, between the general vibes of spooky season and the fact that the rad-looking video game Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is set to drop next week. But why not keep the party going on this cursed Friday the 13th with some free comics?

Regulators in the EU sent letters to Meta, TikTok, and X/Twitter Thursday, giving the platforms 24 hours to address misinformation and other illegal" content related to the Israel-Hamas war. It's hard to say exactly what's happening on these platforms, however, especially when it comes to the algorithmically defined...Read more...

The first word found and translated from an unopened carbonized scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum was announced this week, as part of the $1,000,000 Vesuvius Challenge to read the papyri from the settlement that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.

Horror master John Carpenter's interests have tilted away from directing for some years now, as he's preferred to focus on other interests like music and his comics company. He's back in the chair for new Peacock series John Carptenter's Suburban Screams-and it's too bad the occasion isn't a more memorable one.Read more...

Astropad has recently released an app, Slate, that lets you use your iPad as a drawing tablet that you can connect to your Mac to see the results. Apple's Sidecar has allowed you to do this for years now, but the new app leaves your iPad as a blank canvas rather than mirroring or extending your display.

It's the most wonderful and perhaps only acceptable time of the year to be wandering the halls of the Javits Center in New York City: Comic Con is back, and that means, aside from big news and celebrity panels, there's so much wonderful, wonderful cosplay to take in! Check out a few of our favorites from wandering the...Read more...

Interview With the Vampire, one of the few projects from a major network that has been able to resume production during the continued SAG-AFTRA strike, (and one of my personal favorite TV shows), has finally gotten a new teaser. Yesterday at New York City Comic Con, audiences got a first taste of season two only...Read more...

No matter what you thought of The X-Files' recent revival (we had, uh, mixed feelings), the truth (is out there) that it remains one of the best-loved sci-fi series ever. In 2020, io9 got a chance to spotlight Paul Terry's wonderfully creative The X-Files: The Official Archives-and today, on X-Files creator Christ...Read more...

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from unapproved sources of ketamine. According to the agency, compounded ketamine is increasingly being sold as a treatment for depression and other mental health issues, despite it not being tested or authorized for such uses. The FDA also says it is...Read more...