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Squid Game: The Challenge may have beencontroversial-but it was a huge hit for Netflix, and now there's good news for both the streamer and fans who'd much rather have the real deal than the reality competition spin-off: the smash hit South Korean thriller will finally return this year.Read more...

We are all the sledgehammer, Apple does like to tell its fans. We are all disruptors hurtling toward one great screen, breaking the iron-fisted hold that other tech firms want to impose on us. The hellscape dystopia world of Apple's famed 1984" commercial modeled after George Orwell's seminal dystopia 1984 never...Read more...

Apple has yet to confirm the existence of the Apple Car, but it appears this thing hit another snag on the way to its big reveal.Read more...

We might be getting a lot of new Star Wars this year, but when it comes to new Star Wars toys, Hasbro is playing things close to the vest so far for 2024. The toy company kicked off its first livestream from the galaxy far, far away today with a series of reveals that focused less on the new, and more on the familiar.

If you're ever on your lunch break in space, you might actually want to stay away from the salad. A team of scientists grew lettuce in a simulated microgravity environment on Earth and found that plants have a hard time protecting themselves against harmful bacteria in space.Read more...

Audiences at the time might have been fooled, but 25 year later, everyone knows The Blair Witch Project is a work of fiction. But even without that true story" gimmick going for it, the movie remains surprisingly potent, both taken on its own and when considered in the context of not just 1999's other horror...Read more...

I'm not saying that Samsung's foldables are less resistant to life's surprises than a standard smartphone, but the inside display is soft, and things can happen. And when they do, Samsung can help you fix the screen yourself-if you dare.

On Tuesday, Google announced a slew of new features in Chrome that continue web browsers' inevitable march into the world of artificial intelligence. They include an AI theme generator that customizes the look of your browser, a tool that will fill any field with AI-penned text, and a new smart" tab organizer that...Read more...

Today's Oscar nominations brought a fair amount of genre representation, thanks to movies like Barbie, Poor Things, and io9's top movie of 2023, Godzilla Minus One. Of course, the Academy traditionally favors dramas, so there were some notable snubs of standout sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and animated movies too.

Scientists say they've invented a piece of technology that will let us peer through an animal's eyes better than ever before. The tech uses a combination of novel hardware and software to produce images and videos that accurately represent the colors seen by animals, such as bees and birds. In new research this week,...Read more...

I hope the former record-holders aren't too cross: a team of researchers recently made the smallest, tightest knot yet known, landing themselves top spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

We may think of Star Wars as futuristic but never forget it's actually set a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars is the past and with a new series of art pieces, artist Daniel Arsham has reimagined some of the franchise's iconic pieces as ancient relics. Or, as he'd say, future relics."Read more...

Netflix has been exploring the idea of live-streaming shows for years, and like a chair shot to the back of the head, the company revealed Tuesday it struck a deal to live-stream WWE Raw for the next decade.Read more...

The International Space Station is so hot right now, with no less than two movies out featuring the orbital lab, namely I.S.S. and Constellation. Indeed, the ISS is an absolute icon and a fixture of popular culture. But beyond its well-known status as a pioneering space laboratory, it harbors a wealth of lesser-known...Read more...

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It's not long until we see what Netflix has got cooking with its live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender when it starts streaming next month-but the streamer has given us another new look to whet our appetites.Read more...

You can't fly an inflatable module to space without bursting a few on Earth. Sierra Space watched its giant, 20-foot tall space station module explode in dramatic fashion, but the company wasn't too stressed about it. In fact, it marked a successful test on the road to building the first commercial space station in...Read more...

Apple recently announced a Stolen Device Protection feature for iOS 17.3. With the new OS finally released Monday, the safety feature is now available to be activated on your devices. Here's how to turn it on.

Get a teeny new glimpse of Godzilla x Kong in more international footage. Apple TV+'s Constellation puts Noomi Rapace through a sci-fi horror. Terry Matalas has more ideas if Star Trek: Legacy ever happens. Plus, get a new look at Kung Fu Panda 4. Spoilers, away!

Those who remember playing their Game Boys by the staccato glow of passing streetlights while sitting in the backseat of their parent's cars sure have a bevy of retro handheld revivals to choose from. Though we've had plenty of strong contenders, nothing really beats the original Game Boy Color design with its...Read more...

OnePlus sure picked a heck of a time to launch its flagship stateside. Every Android manufacturer jumped out earlier this year, and the shelves seem slightly more stocked than usual. It's good news for you if you're buying an Android phone.Read more...

Every few years there is some terrible new status symbol that becomes ubiquitous and, thus, inescapable. Several years back it was those dumb Canada Goose jackets that retailed at prices of up to $1700 and made everybody look like Death Star employees. Lately, however, the marker of status is just a cup.

If there's one thing in the gaming laptop space that doesn't get enough attention, it's the sub-$1,000 category. It's all about give and take for a low-price, portable laptop. You want portability, but you need quality performance. You want a bright, beautiful display to show off in-game graphics, but you need a...Read more...

It was perhaps inevitable after last year saw Everything, Everywhere, All at Once take pretty much everything, everywhere at the 2023 Oscars, but 2024's nominations are here, and for the most part sci-fi, fantasy, other genre movies' representations are solidified around a few notable hits-and even then, mostly Barbie.Read more...

It's getting more and more difficult to know whether or not to believe what you see on the web and on social media, what with misinformation and faked content now churned out on a huge scale, but there are resources that can help you find the truth: Including a tool called Fact Check Explorer that's maintained by...Read more...

On my commute to work today, I had the misfortune of being crammed into a narrow tube underground. But it could have been worse: I could've been squished into a single dimension.Read more...

Although it took a long time for Paramount to return the favor, Star Trek Online has long done a great job of bringing in material from the more recent shows into its own imagining of at 25th-century era for boldly going. But its latest drop might be one of its most fun.

The Hugo Awards are no stranger to controversy. In recent years, the annual celebration of sci-fi and fantasy authors in media including novels, short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting (among others) has come under fire for a questionable sponsorship (defense contractor Raytheon Technologies), an...Read more...

Today Lucasfilm dropped our best look yet at the third and final season of Disney+'sStar Wars: The Bad Batch. But beyond setting the stage for the crew's attempts to save Omega from the clutches of the Empire, the trailer also brought with it a shocking reveal: Asajj Ventress, the fallen former Sith disciple turned...Read more...

Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy's shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air. That feature has seen a 15-fold increase in usage since Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 9 gave the whole...Read more...

Oh jeez. While season seven was one of Rick and Morty's best-putting to rest any idea that the behind-the-scenes reshuffling would compromise its quality-it seems we'll be waiting longer than expected for more: season eight is slated for a 2025 return.Read more...

TikTok is a welcome pacifier for people looking to disconnect as our world careens towards the fiery abyss. However, the app has one major flaw standing in the way of total smooth-brained pleasures: you have to move your fingers when you want to see another video. Terrible, yes, but that nightmare may be ending. An...Read more...

Scientists may have figured out one of the many mysteries surrounding everyone's favorite microscopic survivor: the tardigrade. In new research, a team appears to have uncovered a key mechanism that these tiny critters use to withstand harsh conditions that would kill almost any other animal.Read more...

Unknown criminals are blasting New Hampshire Democrats with an apparently AI-generated robocall of President Biden in what the state's Attorney General is calling an unlawful attempt" to suppress the vote.Read more...

Peacock has a great horror selection-with a healthy dose of sci-fi and cult movies too. Building on io9's earlier lists of recommendations for the streamer, here are 10 sci-fi movies that span various decades but all deliver a certain freaky unease.Read more...

The makers of Palword, a new video game launched this weekend that many are calling Pokemon with guns," received death threats due to the close resemblance the game shares to the beloved Nintendo video game. Pokemon diehards took to X to express their frustration with Pocketpair's new game, which sold five million...Read more...

O. megalodon, my megalodon. The gargantuan shark that prowled the Miocene seas has long captured the imagination because of its stupendous 60-foot length-three times the size of the largest great white sharks. But now, a team of researchers suggests that the extinct apex predator's body shape was slightly different...Read more...

Despite Jurassic World Dominion being truly terrible, it did not kill the Jurassic franchise. David Koepp, the writer of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, is currently working on a brand new Jurassic World film that's being referred to as the start of a new Jurassic era."Read more...

Though there won't be a movie in theaters, 2024 is gearing up to be a good year for Star Wars fans. Movie news andTV shows are on the way, and it all kicks off with the final season of The Bad Batch, which debuts February 21.Read more...

After waiting two and a half years for more episodes of Invincible, we only have to wait two more months for it to continue. Season two of Prime Video's animated adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic debuted in November with the first half of the season's eight-episode arc. Those four episodes ended on a major...Read more...

The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory.Read more...

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Japan's space agency, JAXA, achieved a historic soft landing with SLIM on Friday morning, but the lander ran into instant trouble by not being able to collect solar energy and generate electricity. Hopeful for some westerly sunshine, JAXA is cautiously optimistic that SLIM could spring back to life in a couple of...Read more...

Now that Tron 3 certainly has taken its best step forward in looking like it's actually happening, we're now getting some actually exciting casting news about the film, which just got a big, big headliner for nerds already excited about a Tron threequel.

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?Read more...

The Apple Vision Pro finally became available for pre-order on Friday last week, and while the first weekend did extremely well, to the point of being sold out, chances are that the demand may not continue to go up the same way. Here's why.

The Minecraft movie cast continues to grow weirder and weirder. Get a look at the stars of Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender in new posters. Halo teases the fight for Reach in a new trailer. Plus, James Gunn talks Superman: Legacy's addition of The Authority. Spoilers get!

NASA's diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to a dome-shaped aluminum device the size of a billiard ball on India's Vikram lander, pinging its location on the Moon. This laser-enabled technique could one day help NASA astronauts find their way on the lunar surface.

This month, OpenAI launched what it calls the GPT Store, a platform where developers can sell custom-built AI apps and tools. The millions of GPTs on offer include games, productivity helpers, graphic design tools, tools for specific writing projects, and more. One thing OpenAI doesn't want you to find, however, is an...Read more...

Tech companies are infamous for torturing career hopefuls with mind-melters during interviews. This week, you'll try your hand at one without the stress of job prospects on your shoulders. Google is rumored to have used this puzzle over the years, although it has since retired the practice altogether.