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I still remember Uno nights with my family and how my red-green colorblind grandfather always needed help distinguishing his cards. I always attributed it to the nature of the game and never really saw it as inaccessibility. It wasn't until Mattel announced it would make Uno and a few of its other most popular games...Read more...

Earlier this week, we noticed that a Harris Stingray was for sale on eBay for a cool $100k. Police have historically used these notably creepy surveillance devices to grab mobile traffic out of the air via cell tower emulation. Yes, someone was selling one of these suckers for lots of money, and it had garnered a...Read more...

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Are you a fan of robots but just think they should have human-like skin and smile more? Well, you're in luck, weirdo.Read more...

Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood rings up Ghostbusters for their latest haunted house announcement. The annual Halloween events kick off Friday, August 30 at Universal Studios Orlando, and Thursday, September 5 at Universal Studios Hollywood.Read more...

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Supernatural's Jared Padelecki confirmed he's finally ready to make an appearance on The Boys following the CW's recent cancelation of the Walker, Texas Ranger reboot.

A prominent identity verification firm that has contracted with TikTok, Uber, X, and other large platforms, left a set of administrative login credentials exposed to the internet for more than a year, according to a report from 404 Media. The credentials could have allowed a bad actor to access sensitive user...Read more...

The largest AI chatbot companies are sprinting around, trying to make multi-million dollar deals with news networks and Reddit to train their AI models with human-made content-legally. Now, Google-owned YouTube wants to ink similar deals for its existing AI music replication software-a new report details how the ...Read more...

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The last mammoths to walk the Earth did not succumb to inbreeding after hundreds of generations, despite being stuck on a remote island off the coast of Siberia. That's the finding of research published today in Cell which interrogated 21 woolly mammoth genomes to understand how the population's genetic diversity may...Read more...

At some point, Aspyr will run out of classic Star Wars games to polish and re-release-but there's a lot of them, and we still haven't gotten the Rogue Squadron games, god dammit-but today is not that day. This morning, the developer announced it had locked eyes on its next bounty: Jango Fett's origin story shooter, Bou...Read more...

The Street Fighter movie may not have directors, but it does have a release date. The Freaky Friday sequel has officially entered production. Kevin Feige teases the unexpected with Marvel's Wonder Man series. Plus, what's coming on Evil, and a new look at Bluey's brief return. Spoilers away!

Amazon plans to launch a new store that will allow U.S.-based shoppers to buy low-cost, unbranded items delivered directly from China, according to new reports from CNBC and The Information. The plan is widely seen as an attempt to compete with China-based competitors like Temu and Shein.Read more...

If you're reading this, someone you know watches a crime show on CBS. You might not be aware that person watches the show, but numbers don't lie. Shows like NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, FBI, SWAT, Blue Bloods, and others have been a gold mine for the network and now its latest one is getting a little more bloody.Read more...

While The Acolyte fans might look at the battered mask of the dark side villain formerly lovingly known as Darth Teeth, now slightly less lovingly known as the Stranger, and be a bit traumatized after the horrors of this week's episode, we can all still acknowledge that it's an amazing bit of design. So much so, we...Read more...

With the upcoming release of Funko Fusion-the video game from 10:10 games, where you play as iconic figures across various fandom universes-the first line of tie-in Funko Pops has been unveiled. With Masters of the Universe, M3GAN, Jurassic World, and Hot Fuzz all represented, the release offers a taste of some of...Read more...

The shimmery towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for decades since they were first captured by the Hubble telescope. Now, NASA released the most detailed visualization of the iconic celestial structure, revealing all of its dreamy features across multiple wavelengths of...Read more...

The Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, has been out for almost a week, and it's been receiving mixed reviews. Not because it's bad, but because it's hard. Developer FromSoftware heard the pleas from those who can't hang with the game's difficulty and added a new update to make it a little easier for the whiners.Read more...

Gotham City's most notorious vigilante is also its most despised citizen, according to the new trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader. The animated series from executive producers J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm hits Prime Video August 1, but you can catch a glimpse of a certain troublemaking hero who dresses up...Read more...

Scientists in South Africa are now injecting the horns of live rhinos with non-toxic radioactive isotopes to make the horns unfit for human consumption and allow for easier tracking at international border crossings, according to a press release from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.Read more...

If you're running the iOS 18 developer beta, you may have noticed your Android friends aren't the same green bubbles as they used to be. Carriers have been steadily rolling out RCS support on the backend, and plenty of iPhone-wielding folks have already reported decade-long feuds being solved due to Apple acquiescing...Read more...

So, uh, that happened. And that happened. And THAT happened as well. The fifth episode of The Acolyte brought a whole new level of action and chaos to the Star Wars universe, something one of the show's stars rightfully points outdoesn't happen enough in modern franchises.Read more...

It's been 20 years since director Robert Zemeckis unleashed a nightmarish CGI Tom Hanks on the world in The Polar Express. Now he's back with a new cinematic abomination.

Two NASA astronauts were preparing to exit the International Space Station (ISS) for a second attempt at a spacewalk, but it was once again called off due to a concerning malfunction with the spacesuit.Read more...

Three years ago, DC blew the lid off the comics industry with the launch of The Nice House on the Lake-a tense, gripping tale of isolation as a group of friends found themselves brought together to ride out the end of life as we know it, guided by an alien being masquerading as one of their closest friends. Now, the...Read more...

The live-action Transformers movies aren't really what you'd beloved." Despite making a lot of money, most of them aren't especially well-regarded critically, and fans of the original property don't exactly take to them well. They occupy a weird space in Hollywood wherein those initial five movies actively didn't...Read more...

The Fantastic Four, Marvel's most iconic superhero team, is finally coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and with them come a bunch of questions. Questions like Where the hell have they been for the last two decades as heroes like Iron Man and Black Widow dealt with Thanos and others?"Read more...

AMC has officially renewed Interview With the Vampire for a third season just days ahead of its ominously titled season two finale, And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else." The Anne Rice adaptation's third season will finally see Lestat enter his Queen of the Damnedphase. Nu-metal fans, rejoice.

Julian Assange became a free man on Wednesday Australia time (late Tuesday U.S. mainland time) after pleading guilty to espionage charges brought by the U.S. government in exchange for his freedom. And while it's unclear whether the WikiLeaks co-founder will restart his work publishing secrets anytime soon, Assange...Read more...

There's a lot of violence in Star Wars. But a lot of Star Wars' violence, and its approach to it, is rooted in the abstract-whole planets gone in the blink of an eye, grand battles in space and on the ground; even on smaller scales, its duels are less about the act of violence, and more chivalrous dances. But rarely...Read more...

In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration didn't do anything wrong when asking social media companies to remove posts full of misinformation.Read more...

People will do anything for attention. In the case of one guy, it appears that stiffing service workers all over Los Angeles is his thing. Yes, an anonymous influencer, who operates under the Instagram account @zerodollarstip, and the TikTok handle @idontip, has made it his entire mission to go to some of L.A.'s...Read more...

If you're not already backlogged on reading all the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books that are in line to be adapted (past io9 lists here, here, here, and here), get ready: we're about to add to the pile. Here are 10 more genre books coming to screens soon, a mix of familiar classics and recent best-sellers.Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago has affected women's contraceptive use for the worse, new research suggests. The study found that prescriptions of birth control and emergency contraception have declined significantly more in the states that passed the most restrictive abortion laws...Read more...

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Leslye Headland discussed her process conceiving this week's shockingly violent episode of The Acolyte: I think a good twist is telegraphing what's going to happen, and then once it does, executing it without an ounce of pity or sentimentality."

Mia Goth reassures us that all this waiting for Blade will be worth it. Get one last look at A Quiet Place: Day One in its final trailer. The Xenomorph waits in a creepy new look at Alien: Romulus. Plus, Finn Jones still wants to return as Marvel's Iron Fist. Spoilers, away!

Eagle-eyed observers might have noticed the change with today's announcement that Lanterns, a drama series based on DC's Green Lanterns characters, is officially getting an eight-episode series order at HBO. That's right: HBO at the forefront, instead of being labeled as a Max Original" for the oft-renamed HBO...Read more...

Samsung's next generation batch of devices is coming next month. The company has officially announced that Galaxy Unpacked will happen on July 10 at 6 a.m. PT/9 a.m. ET. The main event will be live-streamed and hosted from Paris, France, about two weeks before the opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympics. Samsung is...Read more...

Director Lee Isaac Chung's choice of Twisters as the follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Minari was surprising at first-but he's since spoken about why he pivoted from family drama to tornado-fueled action. He himself grew up in the storm-plagued midwest, and he was excited by the film's approach to science and the...Read more...

Update: June 25, 6:00 p.m. ET: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy successfully blasted off shortly before 5:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.Read more...

Would you feel more inclined to use Google's Gemini if you could give it a personality you vibe with? The Information reports that the search giant is working on a concept where the Gemini chatbot can be modeled in the style of a well-known celebrity or tuned otherwise to respond more affably and person-like.Read more...

Godzilla has a long and fruitful comics history-including at Marvel, with his legendary 70s series from Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe. He's gone to hell, battled ferocious beasts, he's teamed up with fellow heroes. He has, occasionally, been allowed to stomp the bejesus out of Superman. But it's that last one that...Read more...

Long before Stan Lee cameos became an ever-present Easter egg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the legendary comics creator, who passed away in 2018 at age 95, had his eye on appearing in an entirely different franchise.Read more...

An election worker in Maricopa County, Arizona has been arrested for allegedly stealing a digital magnetic key that can be used for accessing the county's vote-counting machines. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) held a press conference Tuesday that was light on details but stressed to the public that...Read more...

You can find a lot of weird shit for sale on eBay, including, apparently, a used police Harris Stingray that could allow you to intercept the cellular traffic of your friends and enemies.Read more...

Google's Pixel devices will launch earlier than Apple's iPhone this year. Google announced its annual Made by Google event will occur two months earlier than expected. It will take place Tuesday, August 13, at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and it's when we expect the company will reveal everything...Read more...

A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into accel" and decel". The accels want AI to progress rapidly - move fast and break things - while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of...Read more...

While much ado is made about Batman's iconic enemies being clever inversions of his own neurosis, or how the Flash's rogues are everyday career criminals who've deliberately rebranded themselves with a fun gimmick, it seems Aquaman's are rarely discussed in the same positive breath. We're here to make the case that a...Read more...

Patron announced on Tuesday on its blog that it will allow creators to gift limited-time subscriptions to their followers and other ways to monetize their platforms.Read more...