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The U.S. government sued Adobe on Monday for allegedly trapping" customers in its default, most lucrative subscription plan. In a complaint, the Department of Justice (DOJ) writes that Adobe locks customers into a year-long agreement that's not effectively disclosed as such, and ambushing" users with hefty hidden...Read more...

Heat waves don't just make you sweat - they can also mess with your brain. It's been established that hot weather can result in lower scores on math tests and higher rates of aggression, ranging from mean-spirited behavior to violent crime. A small but growing body of research suggests it can also influence how people...Read more...

TikTok recently announced Symphony Digital Avatars, a new way to incorporate ads on its platform. The social media app will soon feature AI-generated avatars of popular creators. According to the company, the aim is to help creators and brands captivate global audiences and deliver impactful messages in an immersive...Read more...

After a lot of up and downs about whether or not Megalopolis would even make it to theaters-and a wildly divided but still rather fascinated reaction to its premiere at Cannes this year-Francis Ford Coppola's latest will head to the silver screen after all.Read more...

Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes might look like if they were animated? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence technology, you can now see those static images come to life. And they look like absolute dogshit.Read more...

Welcome back to Westeros, where everyone's still reeling from the final events of House of the Dragon season one: the installment of King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) on the Iron Throne in place of designated heir Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy)-and the tragic death of Rhaenyra's son, Lucerys, thanks to Aegon's...Read more...

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly reflecting on his long career in Hollywood, Alan Cumming cited 2003's X2: X-Men United as the gayest film [he's] ever done."Read more...

A team of astronomers has spotted the most distant merging galactic cores yet, seen as they were when the universe was less than a billion years old. The duo of active galactic centers, called quasars, is the only confirmed pair seen during the Cosmic Dawn.Read more...

Normally, we have to wait a few months after Apple's big WWDC conference before getting the full iOS release on iPhones. But now, thanks to AI, this year's release schedule will look very different. Apple's been a little vague about what new Apple Intelligence" features are coming to iPhones immediately, especially...Read more...

McDonald's is ending a two-year-old partnership with IBM to test AI's ability to replace drive-thru workers at more than 100 restaurants, according to Restaurant Business. The world's largest fast-food company is reportedly pulling the technology later in July. However, McDonald's tells Gizmodo this experiment with...Read more...

In a recent Twitter post, Marvel Comics revealed an updated logo to better differentiate its film, animation and comic book divisions from one another. There can now no longer be any confusion that what you hold your hand is a not a movie, per se, but instead a booklet of still images to pursue at your own leisure....Read more...

It seems like Apple's long-term design dream for its iPhones and iPads-to create some kind of magic pane of glass-are inching toward reality. The screens on Apple's iPhones keep getting bigger as the bezels shrink. Now, we have word that Apple is truly stressing the thinness of its devices after showcasing its...Read more...

The Transformers/GI Joe crossover has found its writer. Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is working on a new horror movie. Plus, get a look at what's coming on Evil, and Doctor Who prepares for its season finale. To me, my spoilers!

I hope you all had a nice time yesterday celebrating any fathers in your lives. I can trace my love of puzzles back to my dad, who was quizzing me about Zeno's paradox and the Fibonacci sequence before I was potty trained. This was us nearly every night of my childhood:

When night fell on Uganda's second-largest national park in early February, Jacob, a three-legged African lion, made several attempts to cross a dangerous channel with his brother, Tibu.

After several years where most of their movies launched on Disney+ (and not without controversy), Pixar's back in theaters withInside Out 2. The sequel's big hook isa trio of new Emotions that've emerged from Riley's growth into puberty, and it's got a lot audiences who've seen it jumping for joy.Read more...

Last month, it was revealed Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas was heading up a Disney+ show for Vision after his White variant departed WandaVision. Matalas now has another project lined up alongside that, which is good news for him, but not so good news for anyone holding out hope for him to continue any of P...Read more...

Over the last few months, Delicious in Dungeon has been airing over on Netflix. Based on the manga of the same name by Ryko Kui, the adaptation courtesy of Studio Trigger (the team behind Promare and Cyberpunk Edgerunners) has been a really good watch, and just wrapped its first season this past Thursday. Fans didn't...Read more...

Marvel's relaunched version of the Ultimate Universe has been going strong between its current quartet of titles. Between Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Black Panther, the line's writers and artists have been gradually sketching new alternate versions on classic characters. But now...Read more...

Artificial intelligence is pretty much everywhere you look at the moment, churning out reams and reams of text and piles and piles and images, and its ability to synthesize new' material out of vast amounts of training data extends to audio too: You can have your own little customized ditty put together for you in...Read more...

As Apple eulogized its commitment to purportedly non-invasive AI during its annual developer conference, the iPhone maker neglected to disclose a critical update that's coming to the next evolution of its Mac operating system - macOS Sequoia.

Supermassive Games' interactive horror game Until Dawn is getting adapted to film, and it's now locked down about half its primary cast of young adults turned potential murder victims.Read more...

Defying persistent requests" from Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor, Mozilla said this week that it will restore local access to five censorship-circumventing add-ons.Read more...

The works of Stephen King have mainly been adapted as feature films in recent years, but TV's due to get its own King things pretty soon. Along with HBO's Welcome to Derry, MGM+ is entering the ring with a show based on the author's 2019 novel The Institute.

Star Wars has a particular type of music that runs throughout most of its media. Following on from John Williams, composers like Kevin Kiner, John Powell, and Michael Giacchinno have evoked the score of his films through the various spinoffs like Rogue One and Clone Wars. It's only been recently that Star Wars: Jedi...Read more...

If you're a fan of My Adventures with Superman, good news: it's getting another season.Read more...

Warner Bros. and DC have gone back to the world of Watchmen off and on ever since the 2009 live-action movie. While it's been a few years since the last time they returned to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' world, they've apparently still got Watchmen fever and are now looking to bring the superhero story as a movie once...Read more...

Kimberly Gasuras doesn't use AI. I don't need it," she said. I've been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?" That logic wasn't enough to save her job.

The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta's piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth, we now have batteries the dimensions of a graham cracker that can last days before needing a recharge.

In some parts of the country (mainly the hot, humid parts), humanity's relationship with the friendly insect known as the mosquito can be quite contentious. Not only do these wonderful little pests swarm you, suck your blood, and leave unattractive splotches all over your skin, but they're also known to transport many...Read more...

Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont, has long been railing against the price of prescription medications in the U.S., as Americans pay the highest prices for drugs in the world. But Sen. Sanders scored a win on Friday, as the CEO of Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic, agreed to testify about the...Read more...

Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen met long before they crossed paths in Star Wars; though their careers have been mostly divergent (her breakout was 1995's Kids; his was 2002's Attack of the Clones), they attended the same NYC drama school as teens. Now both associated with major roles in Star Wars and have shared...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened yet another investigation into Boeing, this one centered around concerns that counterfeit titanium may have been installed in some of the aviation giant's planes.

I was grumpy after Google I/O last month. I thought, what is the point of all this artificial intelligence if it's hurting my Android experience now? Then I caught myself excited over similar AI features Apple announced for the iPhone at WWDC.

A Tesla in self-driving" mode slammed into an unoccupied police car during the early morning hours of Thursday, according to the Fullerton Police Department. No one was injured in the crash, but bodycam footage shows a police officer sprinting out of the way to avoid getting hit.Read more...

The third episode of The Acolyte is pretty incredible for a lot of reasons. It's an episode that, in content, invites us to consider new perspectives on some of the saga's most fundamental spiritual ideas, and delivers a meaty slice of back story for its protagonists and antagonists alike. But it also does something...Read more...

Over a dozen Wells Fargo employees were fired last month for trying to fool their bosses into thinking they were working when they were not, as first reported by Bloomberg Thursday. It seems they were unsuccessful. A regulatory filing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) says the bank investigated...Read more...

Voyager fans, rejoice! The 46-year-old spacecraft is once again probing interstellar space for cosmic wonders following a seven month-long hiatus.Read more...

We all know that Elon Musk likes procreation. He has 11 kids, after all. The tech billionaire currently has twins with an executive at Neuralink, two children with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Grimes, and a gaggle of children with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson. The billionaire was also accused of asking a former...Read more...

Angel Manuel Soto's Blue Beetle ushered in the new era at DC Studios under James Gunn and Peter Safran, and while critics (including io9) enjoyed it, the tale of budding superhero Jaime Reyes (played by Cobra Kai's Xolo Mariduena) didn't really catch on with audiences (it hit theaters during the Hollywood strikes)...Read more...

June 16 heralds the arrival of House of the Dragon's second season on HBO and Max, bringing its large cast of morally complex characters, many with confusingly similar silver-blonde tresses, back to screens. io9 already assembled a list of House of the Dragon's 15 most shocking moments (so far); to go with that, here...Read more...

YouTube appears to be stepping up its long war on ad blockers this week. The creator of SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced ad blocker, posted a tweet on Wednesday claiming YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection. This would inject ads directly into a video's stream, and render many ad blockers useless.

If you missed out on seeing writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's neon-infused nightmare I Saw the TV Glow in theaters, you can now watch one of the year's most unique and haunting horror films at home-which may even enhance its enchanted-by-the-boob-tube effects.Read more...

Apple's new Apple Intelligence system is designed to infuse generative AI into the core of iOS. The system offers users a host of new services, including text and image generation as well as organizational and scheduling features. Yet while the system provides impressive new capabilities, it also brings complications....Read more...

Despite lofty expectations, the all-new, budget-enhanced Doctor Who has been-to be kind-a bit of a ratings bust. Speaking at a recent BAFTA Q&A, showrunner Russell T. Davies admitted as much, with the caveat the Fifteenth Doctor era has proven to be enormously successful with younger audiences.Read more...

The Pentagon was behind hundreds of Twitter accounts spreading anti-vaccine propaganda as a way to undermine China during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, according to an explosive report from Reuters Friday. U.S. government officials confirmed to Reuters the existence of the campaign, which started under former...Read more...

Things can get lonely on Mars. NASA's four-wheeled robot has been roaming the Red Planet for more than three years, trekking across the harsh terrain on its own after losing its pal Ingenuity. But perhaps the Martian rover has found a way to connect with us from 140 million miles away. Because let's face it, we all...Read more...

Lots of weird stuff happens in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and Obi-Wan getting a clue at a 1950s-style diner owned by one of the weirdest-looking Star Wars creatures ever is near the top of the list. Dex and his diner are an incredibly unique piece of Star Wars lore so to see it recreated in reality is...Read more...

It's hard to go a day without hearing something new about the latest diabetes and obesity medications, semaglutide and tirzepatide. Usually, the buzz is positive, but there has been a persistent claim made about these drugs that would make any potential user wary: They don't only help you lose weight-they supposedly...Read more...

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