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Beyond the surprise of Ariana Greenblatt showing up during Ahsoka as a live-action interpretation of the Star Wars character's animated youth was a really stark reminder Clone Wars never truly sold: holy hell, that is a little kid they gave a pair of glowsticks to and stuck on the front lines of the deadliest war the...Read more...

For weeks, Google has been warning users it's getting ready to redesign its login page, an interface that billions of people use every day to access Gmail and countless websites across the internet. As of this week, the revamp is rolling out, and users are getting a first look.Read more...

Beware the apes, Reddit told the world in its IPO documents, though not in such explicit terms. Put simply, the company warned potential investors that one of its subreddits, the infamous r/WallStreetBets, could make its stock price and volume extremely volatile-and there's little Reddit can do about it.Read more...

AI chatbots made headlines this week with a range of glaring flubs that were hard to look past. Tech companies are rushing to show off their non-offensive, error-free AI chatbots. They're hoping to show investors that the billions of dollars spent on this technology was a good investment. This week, AI chatbots showed...Read more...

Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy.Read more...

AT&T issued a statement Thursday night to explain that the telecom's widespread network outage earlier in the day wasn't caused by a cyberattack. Countless conspiracy theories emerged online Thursday morning as people naturally wondered why they'd lost service-theories that will hopefully be put to rest as AT&T...Read more...

For the past several months, Tesla has been locked in a battle of wills with the labor unions of Sweden. The company's refusal to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with a small number of workers associated with the Swedish union IF Metall has led to boycotts by other regional unions, turning what should have...Read more...

Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the Moon on Thursday at 6:23 p.m. ET, becoming the first private company to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface.Read more...

Thanksgiving is killing it on Netflix-it's currently ranked among the streamer's top flicks. When one horror film does well, that's great news for the genre at large, so if you head to the streamer for John Carver's merry Massachusetts massacre, why not stick around and feast on these other titles, too?

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What is the most brutal battlefront in Star Wars history-the sands of Geonosis? The harsh icewinds of Hoth? The teddy bear-infused terror of Endor's forests? The dark nights of Umbara? The answer we're looking for was delivered 20 years ago in one of the all-time classic Star Wars games: this bridge.Read more...

Have you seen a claim on social media that Google is sunsetting" Gmail this coming August? What appears to be a screenshot from an official Google announcement has gone viral on X, but it's completely fake.Read more...

The news that Gareth Edwards was scooped up by Universal to direct the upcoming Jurassic World feature shook the internet just a few days ago. During a Q&A after a recent screening of The Creator hosted by Collider, the filmmaker dished a bit on his new gig in theJurassic franchise.Read more...

Match Group, the international conglomerate that owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and almost every other popular dating app, just inked a major partnership with OpenAI. The company shared only a few hazy details, saying AI will help employees with work-related tasks." The dating giant says it long term plan is to squeeze...Read more...

Captain Kirk has one. Captain Janeway has one. If Star Trek fans are going to insist on slowly but surely getting every major character a landmark in their hometown-to-be, Jonathan Frakes' legendary Will Riker is certainly up there as a priority-especially one that celebrates his most iconic tactical maneuver.

Spring break is almost upon us-so here's what's going on at theme parks and major tourist destinations as we go into the new year of vacation travel.Read more...

A trove of Neanderthal tools made between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago were forged with glue, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the objects.Read more...

Over 70,000 AT&T customers across the United States reported cellular outages on Thursday morning, according to Downdetector. Thousands of AT&T customers reported that their phones displayed SOS" in the status bar, indicating they had no service but could still make emergency calls. It's currently unknown what the...Read more...

After an eight-day journey through space, Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission is ready to attempt a potentially historic landing on the surface of the Moon. Odysseus will try for a lunar touchdown on Thursday at 6:24 p.m. ET near the Malapert A crater in the Moon's South Pole region.Read more...

Nimona went from being a movie that was almost certainly lost to the ether to an Oscar nominee-a story as miraculous as the sumptuous, wildly inventive, and queer as hell film turned out to be when we finally got to see it on Netflix. But it was only allowed to do so when Annapurna helped bring the project out of the...Read more...

Bill Skarsgard came to mainstream attention playing Pennywise in the It movies, and he'll soon be seen as The Crow's undead hero as well as Nosferatu's vampire. But he's clearly not casting aside roles that don't involve prosthetics and make-up, as this beefy first look at Boy Kills World reveals.Read more...

We might be soon on the verge of having a super snake antivenom. In new research, a team of scientists says they've created a lab-made antibody geared to counteract toxic bites from a wide variety of snakes. In early tests with mice, the uber-antivenom appeared to work as intended.Read more...

Google just launched a new AI Google Chrome feature that lets users right-click in any text box and fill it with words from a chatbot. It's called Help Me Write," and while it might sound small, it could have a profound and permanent effect on the internet. Until this point, it took a couple of steps to spin up some...Read more...

Right now in Star Wars, if something evil is going on, odds are it's all part of Emperor Palpatine's master plan. The Bad Batch has been playing with this idea as it set up its Rise of the Empire-era world across its first two seasons, but season three's premiere made it even more explicit with the big boss showing up...Read more...

Reddit reportedly signed a $60 million deal with Google to allow its online communities to be scraped for AI training data, according to Reuters Thursday. Google will sift through millions of posts on Reddit, and train a large language model on Reddit's threads. The content deal was originally reported by Bloomberg...Read more...

New research seems to offer some long-sought insights into the perplexing and devastating condition known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome. The National Institutes of Health-led study found several potentially key differences in the brains and immune systems of people with ME/CFS...Read more...

Get a new look at the Spiderwick Chronicles TV series. Marvel's Thunderbolts has tapped The Bear's showrunner. The long-in-limbo Crow remake is bumping up its release date. Plus, what to expect when superpowered comedy Extraordinary returns. Spoilers, now!

Many Star Wars fans probably thought they were dreaming when the European Space Agency published images of what looked like a TIE starfighter in space. Alas, it wasn't the Empire, but rather glimpses of a decades-old Earth observation satellite making its return home.Read more...

ChatGPT started throwing out unexpected responses" on Tuesday night according to OpenAI's status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations full of wild, nonsensical answers from the AI chatbot.

Google is pausing the ability of its AI chatbot Gemini to generate images of people after a slew of historically inaccurate and racially diverse creations, such as images of Black Nazi soldiers and a Black medieval British king, went viral and led some to say the company was racist against white people.Read more...

Will Stancil, a man who's made a name for himself online as a feisty defender of President Joe Biden and Democratic policies, announced Wednesday that he's running for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. But Stancil says social media platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter, aren't going to be a very...Read more...

Great news for those of you holding out on trading up for a Galaxy S24 Ultra. Samsung has announced that its Galaxy AI features are coming to more smartphones. That means Circle to Search, Live Translation, Instant Slow-Mo, and Generative Edit are coming to an older Samsung device near you.

Earlier in the week, My Dad the Bounty Hunter creator Patrick Harpin and Yuhki Demers, a visual artist on Sony Animation's Spider-Verse films, revealed their concept art for an animated Batman Beyond movie they're trying to get made. They're both fully aware nothing might come of this, and talks are still happening....Read more...

Amazon driver Alexander Evans survived a harrowing crash back in 2021 that saw his delivery truck sliced clean in half by an oncoming train in Ixonia, Wisconsin. Miraculously, Evans escaped with only minor injuries, but the truck didn't fair as well. Three years later, recordings from inside the vehicle have made...Read more...

Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the most significant cryptographic security upgrade" in the messenger's history.

Steven Spielberg wouldn't be where he is without his crucial collaborators George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy. And you could say any of the trio have stepped in to save the day on a number of each other's films through advice and in some cases even taking over directing duties. Without them we wouldn't have theStar...Read more...

Takeshi Ebisawa, a purported leader in Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate, was charged on Wednesday with trying to sell undercover DEA agents nuclear materials that he believed would eventually make their way to Iran. Why was it the DEA who nabbed Ebisawa? The Yakuza leader first tried to sell them drugs and...Read more...

Here at io9, we love nostalgic toys-whether they involve fondly remembered fast-food meals or childhood lessons about not always getting what's on your wish list. But we also love new toys, games, and weird collectibles, even if (like these cult and horror-themed selections) they spark nightmares as well as joy.

Google's AI chatbot Gemini has a unique problem. It has a hard time producing pictures of white people, often turning Vikings, founding fathers, and Canadian hockey players into people of color. This sparked outrage from the anti-woke community, claiming racism against white people. Today, Google acknowledged Gemini's...Read more...

You may have heard that Madame Web is not a good movie. That there are, in fact, things about Madame Web that could be described as The Worst." I am not here to refute those claims; there are in fact many things about Madame Web that are not what you would feasibly call good." But in its surprise camp turn, it...Read more...

In recent days, the internet has become enthralled with a 20-second of video a man attempting to cut a pretzel perfectly in half. The short clip purported to come from a German TV show dedicated entirely to the art of cutting things in half. But as disappointed users soon found out, no such German TV show exists.Read more...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have donated $4.9 million to the political action committee Fairshake, according to new filings with the U.S. Federal Election Committee. It's just the latest windfall for Fairshake, which is spending millions to run attack ads against Katie Porter, a Democrat who's running for Diane...Read more...

There are a lot of free streaming services these days-but precious few are ad-free. All hail Kanopy, which you can access with a public library card through participating institutions, and which boats an excitingly vast array of movies and TV shows, including tons of recent horror releases.

Lionsgate has been trying to get a Borderlands movie off the ground since 2015, with Eli Roth becoming attached to the project in 2020. After a longer-than-expected wait and a series of reshoots with Tim Miller at the helm, the movie is a real thing, and it's coming in August. The first trailer, however, is here now:Read more...

Billions of years of evolution has given rise to us, the millions of species that persist on planet Earth today. Some of us are small, some of us are big, and some of us have huge ears, flat tails, compound eyes, or infrared vision. Each of these adaptations has its merits, but only a handful of them can be considered...Read more...

Dune: Part Two is more than a mere sequel. It's a continuation, culmination, and ultimately a fantastic elevation of everything you already loved about director Denis Villeneuve's 2021 film Dune: Part One. That film ended with Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) embracing a new way of life after almost everyone he loved...Read more...

Superhero movies are in a weird place right now, especially at Marvel's house of ideas. Even as recent films struggle to land with audiences like the surefire hits of old, the studio is ready to look ahead with the heightened interest in what's on the horizon. But part of that horizon includes navigating the murky...Read more...

Veterinary researchers are shining a light on an oddly mesmerizing skin condition found in hairless sphynx cats. The condition, called figurate erythema, causes the cats to develop intricate, swirling rashes all over their body. There is no clear explanation yet for why figurate erythema happens, though it seems to be...Read more...

There's good news if you're running out of space on your Google account. Researchers from Scientists from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology just figured out how to fit up to a petabit of data onto an optical disk by storing information in 3D. In other words, that's 125,000 gigabytes on a single...Read more...

While journeying through the far reaches of the solar system, the New Horizons probe picked up a dusty trail of icy fragments that may indicate that the Kuiper Belt-home to former planet Pluto and countless other objects-is way bigger than we thought.