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Space is big and scary, and a new video created from Webb Space Telescope data goes to show the massive distances separating us from the objects we’re trying to observe. In this case, it’s the Cartwheel Galaxy, one of Webb’s recent targets.Read more...

In a few short weeks, Amazon becomes Middle Earth. The trillion-dollar company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in bringing the latest iteration of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings franchise to its streaming service. That show, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, debuts September 2, and few…Read more...

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Thousands of feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a journey of exploration and discovery is underway. Researchers from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and partner groups are conducting one of the most comprehensive map and survey missions of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ever done. The ridge is the…Read more...

The John Wick universe finds its streaming home on Peacock. Starting in 2023 the prequel spin-off will premiere with the first three films in the series to coincide with the release of John Wick: Chapter 4.Read more...

The U.S. Army transferred its satellite ground stations to the Space Force on Monday as the latest step in establishing the sixth branch of the U.S. military devoted to demonstrating national dominance in space.Read more...

On October 25, just in time for Halloween, Netflix is releasing Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities across a four-day event. Two episodes will be released daily up until the 28th, making for a fascinating anthology release schedule that pushes the boundaries of genre, taste, and practical effects.Read more...

Ever since Dragon Ball Z aired on Toonami in 1998, the animated adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s shonen series has stood as one of the most beloved anime in the west. It’s so popular that even though there hasn’t been a new episode of Dragon Ball Super since 2018, and the film Dragon Ball Super: Broly released that same…Read more...

It’s official: Android 13 is live, made clear by this blog post. If you’re on a Pixel 4 or higher, you can grab the software update. So what’s the full release entail? Well, Android 13 is essentially a refined version of last year’s Android release.Read more...

A little bit of secrecy is to be expected when dealing with a massive tentpole production like Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power series, but the extreme lengths that the production went to were not quite as effective as they might have hoped.Read more...

A hacker named Sick Codes has demonstrated a way to jailbreak John Deere tractors, which could allow farmers the opportunity to self-repair their equipment.

Adam Neumann, the man of WeWork infamy, is getting back into the real estate game—this time to “disrupt” the residential market. The billionaire is starting up a new company aimed at somehow addressing and capitalizing on the U.S. housing crisis (though current details are scant.)

A dog in France appears to have contracted monkeypox from his owners, in what seems to be the first known case of human-to-dog transmission of the emerging viral illness. The dog likely caught the infection while sleeping in the same bed as his owners.Read more...

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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been a very busy man for many years now; among the pile of hats he’s currently wearing include the executive producer caps of both Riverdale and the Pretty Little Liars spin-off Original Sin. Now he has used his terrible power to smash the two TV universes together to form one.

The strength and durability of cement has made it a staple building material around the world, but engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have finally come up with a way to manufacture it at a lower cost by swapping in some recycled materials.Read more...

Jaume Collet-Serra talks casting Pierce Brosnan for Black Adam. Filming has already begun on season four of The Mandalorian. The Witcher’s third season resumes filming after Henry Cavill’s covid-19 diagnosis. Plus, new looks at Resident Alien and Primal. Spoilers, away!

The smartwatches and fitness trackers that we strap to our wrists are intended to log our activity in minute detail—but there might also be times when you’d rather records weren’t collected. Whether you want a fresh start with your fitness regime, you’re apprehensive about about your watch having too much data on you,…Read more...

California’s contentious and highly anticipated legislation banning addictive social media sites is dead in the water…for now at least.Read more...

As it had to, it came down to Dolores and the Man in Black.

All narrative-focused video games live and die on their cast of characters, and nowhere is this more true than in RPGs. Just as it’s easy to get swept up into an interesting world by the party members and supporting cast you meet along the way, it’s just as viable to realize the characters in the game are a burden or…Read more...

Throughout the many trailers and promos for Marvel’s She-Hulk, two things have been made clear: Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) is a lawyer suddenly tasked with handling superhuman-related cases, and she’s not terribly good at having a dating life. San Diego Comic-Con say the attorney-at-law open a hotline for…Read more...

If there’s one thing that can generally be agreed on about Stranger Things, it’s that the cast is so dang big. Between the Hawkins kids and their family members being spread out across the country making new friends, the various government and supernatural figures, and Hopper’s party in Russia, you could really feel…Read more...

Next weekend will see the release of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the first film in the long-running Dragon Ball franchise since 2018. Our review of that film is on the way, but with that and the recently released historical musical film Inu-Oh, it’s as good a time as any to talk about this particular brand of…Read more...

The next Star Wars spinoff for Disney+ focuses on Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor from the 2016 film Rogue One. Andor helped steal the Empire’s plans for the Death Star and gave them to the Rebels, and his show winds back the clock several years to show how he got involved in the Rebellion. And if you’re the kind of person…Read more...

As someone who is officially turning 30 this year, I have long ago come to terms with the fact that I am an Old. Should you need proof, I had to ask the youth in our Gizmodo Slack what BDE, or “Big Dick Energy,” was this week as I wasn’t sure if it was literal, figurative, and available for use by all.Read more...

Of Dreamworks’ various franchises throughout the decades, Kung Fu Panda has become one of their biggest hits. After 2016's Kung Fu Panda 3, the series has primarily lived on through various CG spinoff shows and specials. (The most recent of which, The Dragon Knight, premiered last month on Netflix.) But not content…Read more...

2021 and 2022 has seen a glut of releases for sci-fi and fantasy, from superheroes of detective and kung fu variety to multiversal mothers and lawyers on the verge of breaking bad. And with that comes awards season: the Saturn Awards, which focus on film and TV in the aforementioned genre, released their nominees for…Read more...

Sony’s determined to make as many of its first-party PlayStation games into films or TV shows as possible, with the most immediate of the bunch being Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us becoming a TV show for HBO. Also on the hypothetical adaptation docket is the samurai open-world game Ghost of Tsushima, who locked down …Read more...

Back in 2015 when Star Wars: The First Awakens released, the movie served as a huge boost to Oscar Isaac’s profile. Though he’d been in plenty of films before then, playing Poe Dameron put him on everyone’s radar, to the point where he’s become a Marvel superhero and him coming to Comic-Con is considered a Big Deal.

A trifecta of Doctors are assembling to celebrate 60 years of Doctor Who. With Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education) next in line and set to start filming this November, The Hollywood Reporter has learned the transition to the next era of the show may play out a little differently.Read more...

Have you seen a black and white bug flying around? Does it have vivid red back wings? Is it covered in polka dots that would make Cruella de Vil envious? If so, you’ve seen a spotted lanternfly, and a zillion of its friends are probably in your area, too. Scientists across several East Coast states are begging the…Read more...

Daily sustainability practices don’t have to be expensive or time-consuming, as several Latinx and Indigenous TikTokers recently taught me. These creators are aware of the urgency of environmental preservation, and they use their knowledge as immigrants and of their Indigenous ancestry to teach people of all ages and…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys and merchandise on the internet. This week, Fisher-Price sets its teeny tiny little people hands on some pop culture crossovers, and Sentinel’s Iron Man inspired figure line gets mischievous. Check it out!

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International theme parks like Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi and the soon to open Ghibli Park in Japan are enticing tourists to book visits with their fan destinations. Meanwhile, stateside summer winds down with a cinema classic returning to the big screen, activations from Stranger Things, Loungefly and then there’s…Read more...

Judgement Day, Marvel’s big three-way throwdown between the Eternals, Avengers, and X-Men opened mostly with the Eternals trying do a genocide on Mutantkind, and the Avengers mostly just thrown into the crossfire. Good news: some of the Eternals have decided to try and stop the slaughter with the help of Tony Stark.…Read more...

A federal judge in Florida has unsealed the search warrant served on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago estate Monday in what Justice Department officials said was an attempt by the FBI to reclaim classified materials improperly removed from the White House last year.Read more...

Google is working on making cloud games easier to find on its search page. The company hasn’t officially announced the feature publicly, but Ars Technica and The Verge have confirmed that the new Play Now ability showed up for them in separate instances.Read more...

From acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa (Crybaby Devilman, Lu Over the Wall, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!), comes Inu-Oh, a historical anachronism that blends glam rock with Noh theater, creating a delightfully flamboyant and vibrant film that merges myth, history, and music. The film is eccentric and expansive,…Read more...

This week, alongside a massive unveiling of brand new foldable devices and accessories from Samsung, Google put out its own ad campaign in an attempt to rally the troops against Apple’s tyrannical reign on messaging. Google’s #getthemessage campaign hopes to stoke the flames of millions of bothered Android fans so…Read more...

At one point in the upcoming pilot to Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) sneaks into the bathroom of a scummy bar. She’s been in an accident. She’s bloody, bruised, and four women she doesn’t know walk in. What happens next may not seem like a crucial moment in the history of…Read more...

A federal judge declared a mistrial this week after jurors could not reach a verdict over whether two engineering firms, which were supposed to work on alleviating water contamination in Flint, Michigan, hold responsibility for the crisis.

Kamen Rider’s long history in the world of Japanese superheroes has a bit of a gap. After exploding in the ‘80s, Kamen Rider largely vanished from screens outside of a few movies for nearly a decade, while its sibling superhero franchise Super Sentai resurged in popularity. That all changed with the dawn of the 21st…Read more...

Poliovirus, which can cause permanent paralysis and sometimes even death, has been detected in New York City sewage, according to both the state and city health departments—who made the announcement in a joint press release on Friday.

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An apparent wave of pollution has killed thousands of fish in southwestern Poland, according to a Thursday press statement from the Polish Waters ministry. The trouble seemed to start in a town called Oława but has spread along the rover Oder to Frankfurt, Germany more than 200 miles away.

While on a press tour for She-Hulk, Mark Ruffalo spoke with Metro about Marvel’s use of VFX and the enormity of the output from the studio. While he had only glowing praise for the leaps and bounds that CGI has taken over the past decade or so that he’s been involved with Marvel, he had some stronger feelings about…Read more...

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches its sixth month, Russian hackers are escalating and diversifying their attacks on the country and its citizenry, sending mass texts to Ukrainian civilians threatening their lives if they don’t retreat from their homes, attempting to breach the country’s banks, and even…Read more...