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White men can't jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan rainforest.

Kit Harington gets hairy in a trailer for The Beast Within. Get to know A Quiet Place: Day One's feline star in a new featurette. Resident Alien will return for season 4, but at a new residence. Plus, what's coming on Orphan Black: Echoes. To me, my spoilers!

Lenovo's latest Android tablet might seem overt for its price point, but it also sounds like something I want to travel with this summer. The Lenovo Tab Plus has eight boomy speakers to blast music and movies everywhere. The speakers are specially tuned to work with Dolby Atmos, which is a nice trade-off for the rest...Read more...

Here at io9, we love Godzilla Minus One. We also love very cool art. And we especially love very cool Godzilla Minus One art. So it's a good job Toho is getting ready to release some of the film's most glorious official posters for us to plaster our walls with-and we've got your first look.

The Bluey moment has reached a fever pitch as the hit animated series about a family of Heeler dogs has attracted fans across generations. Even among those without kids, the endearing and clever show has gained a considerably powerful fandom that wants more.Read more...

In 2006, a NASA spacecraft flew by Saturn's largest moon and found evidence of large bodies of liquid on the surface of the bizarre world. The shocking discovery meant that Titan's landscape is eerily similar to that of Earth's; the two worlds are the only ones known to have rivers, lakes, and seas on the surface.

For the most part, The Acolyte has set itself apart from the rest of Star Wars-both in terms of its placement in the timeline, a hundred years before the prequel trilogy, and in its desire to focus on new characters and explorations, rather than the familiar. But that doesn't mean there aren't some intriguing...Read more...

They don't always agree, and they've endured tragedies that would be enough to fracture any marriage, much less one between two of Westeros' most powerful families. But Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) still somehow have the most enviable relationship on House of the...Read more...

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After last week's episode of The Acolyte took us into the past for a fascinating story of the Force and perspective alike, things get back to the bigger mysteries of the season in Day". But the gift of last week's context allows the show to re-examine its central figures in new light... just in time for that light to...Read more...

Project Hail Mary continues to expand its cast. An Uncharted sequel is actually happening. The Street Fighter movie has lost its directors. Plus, Jordan Peele's next mystery project has a release date, and more familiar faces are confirmed for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Spoilers now!

Convicted felon Donald Trump staged another rally in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he played all his classic hits, from xenophobia to fake news. But it was Trump's attempt to smear President Joe Biden as senile that really went off the rails. Trump rambled for several minutes about artificial intelligence and...Read more...

Earlier this year, a team of scientists garnered a wave of media attention with their provocative report: They claimed to have found two cases of a rare but fatal prion disease in hunters that could have plausibly been caused by them eating contaminated deer meat-a frightening reminder of the mad cow crisis over 30...Read more...

I love EDM and have briefly tried my hand at DJing before to, let's say, mixed results. So when I found out that I could make music with a pair of balls instead of a turntable or digital mixer, I though, who knows-maybe this will be the start of my career as a juggling DJ.

Just months away from being banned in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be putting some salt in TikTok's wound. The agency has issued a bizarre message about referring a complaint about the social media app to the Department of Justice (DOJ).Read more...

The elevator description for Fede Alvarez's 2009 sci-fi short, Panic Attack!, is as follows: Giant robots invade Montevideo!" Frankly, the future director of Evil Dead, Don't Breathe, and Alien: Romulus would have had us at giant robots," but it's even cooler now that the short has been jazzed up and re-shared to...Read more...

The creature work in Disney+ and Lucasfilm's The Acolyte has expanded the Star Wars universe with new species and droids. Following fellas like Pip, Grogu, Babu Frik (my personal fave), and more is no easy task, but the creatives sure pull it off. On tonight's episode, fans of otherworldly little guys will be...Read more...

The Boys season four has gotten some disparaging ratings on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to some of the most hilarious self-owns coming from a certain small demographic of fans who didn't realize the show was a satire. Somehow it escaped them until now that yes-it's always been about them.Read more...

Update, 5:31 p.m. ET: The 911 system in Massachusetts has been restored, according to a tweet from the state's Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. A cause for the outage is still being investigated and the agency writes it will, provide more info when available." The original article about the outage...Read more...

Last week, Josh Gad teased sci-fi fans with an excited but cryptic social media post referencing a script based on characters created by Mel Brooks" that opens on a star field." Now, a new report confirms what everyone suspected: it's a Spaceballs sequel, coming from Amazon MGM.

At this point, modern Doctor Who has been around for almost as long as classic Doctor Who was-which means the opportunity for returning legendary baddies that the series hasn't already taken is running rather thin. But this week, Doctor Who finally played one more familiar ace up its sleeve (no, not that Ace), and...Read more...

Two NASA astronauts won't be returning back from the International Space Station (ISS) for an additional four days, the latest in a series of delays that has marred the Starliner program for years.Read more...

A team of deep sea scientists has made one mother of a find. In recent research, they detail the discovery of a female squid performing an unusual behavior for its kind: protecting and carrying around a clutch of giant eggs. The mama squid likely belongs to a previously unknown species of cephalopod, the researchers...Read more...

As part of its solicitations for the month of September 2024, DC has unveiled I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a superbly titled horror anthology featuring in-continuity stories set during the events of crises past"-DC's catch-all term for cataclysmic events meant to streamline its universe's ever-increasingly...Read more...

A new report suggests Apple is halting work on a second-generation Vision Pro and will instead focus on a budget model due in 2025.

House of the Dragon is back (with a third season now on the way, too), and it's roared onto HBO and Max with the commanding presence of Vhagar, King's Landing's fire-breathing new bodyguard. But while the season two premiere was a triumph, it came up short compared to the Game of Thrones prequel's record-breaking 2022...Read more...

There was once a time when you had to call a restaurant on the phone to book a reservation. You might spend five minutes going through the whole process only to be told no tables were available. The internet and apps like Resy made all of this much more simple. Then the bots came...Read more...

Sorry, but you were never going to get any Nintendo Switch 2 news at Tuesday's 40-minute Nintendo Direct. However, Nintendo wasn't just laying out the big titles to hit the original Switch for 2024; it was showcasing what games would keep us satiated just before and just after its next big console finally sees the...Read more...

Donald Trump recently called himself the crypto president," pulling a complete 180 from the days when he referred to crypto as a scam. And it's causing quite a lot of confusion in an already hectic presidential race where the former president is neck-and-neck in the polls with President Joe Biden.

In May, we learned that creator Bryan Fuller had departed the much-anticipated Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, a project produced by edgy studio A24 for Peacock. At the time, Fuller posted on social media that for reasons beyond our control, A24 has elected to go a different way with the material."Read more...

WWDC 2024 was a pretty loaded event, and perhaps owing to time restraints, Apple might have skipped out on a seemingly small but crucial update for the Apple Watch coming to WatchOS 11.Read more...

Raise your glasses-and your eyebrows: A team of archaeologists has found the oldest liquid wine in a Roman mausoleum in Spain. The team determined it was a white wine, reddened by centuries of chemistry, and muddled with the cremated remains of a Roman man. Delicious.Read more...

Have you recovered from watching the House of the Dragon season two premiere yet? Considering what happens in the closing moments of A Son for a Son"-probably not, actually, and we can surely expect you-know-which scene to have reverberations throughout the coming episodes.Read more...

Paramount has released a new trailer for Smile 2, a sequel to the 2022 film about a trauma-harvesting entity that smiles at you like Richard D. James on an Aphex Twin album cover.

We've already seen companies try for a laptop alternative using AR glasses as a screen with the Spacetop G1. So why don't we have a phone made explicitly for AR? Well, AR glasses maker XReal has decided to unleash something phone-like. It will run your usual slate of Android apps. It will even take photos and video...Read more...

Children and teens with high body mass index should be guided toward intensive lifestyle interventions to manage their weight, an influential panel of experts is recommending.

The Legend of Zelda franchise has dabbled a few times with letting players actually get to play as Zelda herself-she's been a playable character in spinoffs, fighting games, and, somehow, two of those awful Phillips CD-i games. But, at long last, Zelda is going to star as the hero of a classically-styled Zelda game......Read more...

Every year for the past few years, Dungeons & Dragons has gotten bigger than ever. Now, in 2024 with the twinned anniversaries of its latest, fifth edition turning 10, and the RPG series at large turning 50, the game is ready to shape the next decade of adventuring-and its new versions of the core rulebooks are nearly...Read more...

Five years ago, a galaxy 300 million light-years away got a lot brighter in telescopes, radiating ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light out into space. This year, the resurgent galaxy started emitting X-rays, indicating that its initial brightening was really just a warmup.Read more...

Maika Monroe teases an even darker sequel inThey Follow. The Doctor and Mel face a storm of death in Doctor Who's season finale. Plus, what to expect from the next House of the Dragon. To me, my spoilers!

Last night's second season premiere of Game of Thrones' spinoff House of the Dragon tackled one of George R.R. Martin's most infamous deaths-in a new way that surprised the fandom.Read more...

It's been a while since we've heard from Google about the smart home, but a recent new FCC listing related to the company suggests something on the horizon.Read more...

In the Like The Light By Which God Made The World Before He Had Made Light", the revelations from the last episode come bubbling to the surface. Even in Louis' narrative of the past Armand's (Assad Zaman) actions begin to get colored a little differently right before the fire at the Theatre des Vampires.

Tesla temporarily paused Cybertruck deliveries over an issue involving the vehicle's large windshield wiper, according to several posters on the Cybertruck Owner's Club forum. The electric vehicle maker hasn't issued a formal statement on the reported issue, and it hasn't responded to Gizmodo's request for comment,...Read more...

Mondo's X-Men action figure line already has some pretty killer figures in it to celebrate mutantkind's animated legacy. But its next figure is now going to leap a little forward, and bring X-Men 97's finest hero to the forefront: Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops.Read more...

Apple says it's shutting down Apple Pay Later, the tech giant's buy now, pay later" loan service, less than a year after launching the product to United States users in October 2023. Apple announced the move in a statement to 9to5Mac on Monday, saying it would replace the service with loan offerings from eligible...Read more...

YouTube will soon be testing a feature that allows users to add notes under videos to correct inaccurate or misleading information, according to an announcement from the video-sharing platform on Monday. And while it sounds strikingly similar to X's Community Notes program, there are still a lot of questions about how...Read more...

Sure, you'll probably never get your hands on that infamous extending lightsaber last seen at the now-defunct Galactic Starcruiser hotel, but-like The Force-hope is always there for Star Wars fans if they know where to look. A few DIYer tech YouTubers have crafted a fully extending and retracting lightsaber that's as...Read more...

Doctor Who, of course, is king of the cliffhanger. For a show that thrived on needing to get people to tune back in next week as storylines stretched across multiple episodes, few ongoing series have mastered the art of a last minute hook screaming into the closing titles that will have you seated this time in seven...Read more...

If you paid $1400 for a Dream Key annual pass at Disneyland between August and October of 2021, you may be entitled to a financial settlement, thanks to a new $9.5 million lawsuit.