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Over two years have passed since fans were treated to one of the most exciting and maddening cliffhangers ever on the Apple TV+ show, Severance. In that time, everyone has been dying to know what's next for the innies and outies of Lumon Industries. Well, the bad news is, we still don't know. The good news is the...Read more...

This past weekend, I sat down to bring an end to a story I have been following for the best part of the last 10 years of my life: Bungie's Destiny saga, told across two games, myriad expansions, seasons of living-game content, and many crushing highs and lows, came to what has long been shaped as its first proper end.Read more...

Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis (Jacob Anderson) revisited their very first Interview With the Vampire meeting in Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape," directed by Craig Zisk and written by Hannah Moscovitch and Jonathan Ceniceroz. And what memories they are.Read more...

When it comes to Tesla, it seems like the only thing people want to talk about lately is the Cybertruck and its flaws. And while we can all have a laugh at that monstrosity on four wheels, the electric vehicle company has a problem with its growing parking lots of unsold Teslas in Austin, Texas. Telsa has struggled to...Read more...

Just as all eyes turn to Netflix and Fortiche to see what's next for season 2 of the studio's stunning League of Legends prequel, Arcane, there's good news for fans of incredible animation and physical media: the first season is heading home, and in ways we've never seen it on Netflix.

For Xbox, hardware is an afterthought. If you were like us and spent nearly two hours watching the Xbox Showcase, you came away disappointed by whats on offer for 2024. We are getting the same Xbox console hardware first released in 2020, though now with more storage. We could have had a handheld. We could have had...Read more...

During the early 1980s, the word tampon became briefly synonymous with terror. Doctors began to document cases of a then little-known condition linked to the feminine care product, called toxic shock syndrome. Thousands of such cases and around a hundred deaths were reported before the crisis was ultimately contained....Read more...

A rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal earlier this year. A pterosaur with a third foot sprouting from its wing. A museum posting a psychedelic Godzilla-meets-gecko on social media, while a more life-like illustration of the ancient reptile appears on its websiteRead more...

Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference, or WWDC, is all set to be held from June 10 through June 14 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. If you're not in person, youcan catch up on the Cupertino company's OS news online. Apple also posts an archive of the keynote on its website for folks who aren't...Read more...

A young female FBI agent with unusually fine-tuned intuition comes aboard an active serial-killer case her superiors have been unable to crack, and proves to be the missing piece that helps move the investigation forward. It could be The Silence of the Lambs-or, if you flipped everything inside out and added an...Read more...

If there's something we could all use to improve our lives, it's more time in the day to enjoy ourselves, see friends and family, and relax. One of the promises the wave of generative AI bots makes is that they will improve our day-to-day existence. So, does that extend to getting us all more free time?

Open your kitchen drawer and take out some tin foil. Twirl it into a cone - maybe even double-wrap it - and put it on your noggin. Do you feel safer yet? The tin foil hat is perhaps the most iconic headgear for conspiracy theorists. Wearing one signals to others that you're unhinged, have a deep distrust of the...Read more...

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai returns with a new name. Orphan Black: Echoes offers a new taste of what's to come. Plus, what to expect from the next episode of My Adventures With Superman. To me, my spoilers!

Almost exactly a year ago, I posed a card puzzle here that sparked a frenzy in the comments section. The solution to that puzzle was so counterintuitive that several readers rejected it outright. In honor of the approaching anniversary, it's time to stir up more controversy with two more surprising card puzzles.Read more...

Massive Entertainment's Star Wars Outlaws puts players in the boots of Kay Vess, a young crook trying to make a name for herself in the galaxy's criminal underworld in the gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Doing that means pulling off some small jobs to psych youself up for the Big Job, and...Read more...

Earlier this year, we got our first real look at Indiana Jones & the Great Circle. The game, coming from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, puts players in Indy's hat between Raiders and Last Crusade, and has the adventurer hunting for mysterious sites around the globe that form a perfect circle.Read more...

It's only been about a month since Warner Bros. revealed it was working on a new Lord of the Rings movie. With Andy Serkis in the director's chair and mocap suit, the studio's fully set to get the Hunt for Gollum prequel film in theaters by 2026, and that's naturally got people talking about if any actors from the...Read more...

The first season of X-Men 97 may be over, but Disney's still got some goodies from the show it's selling to anyone still hit with mutant fever. Composers John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart-aka the Newton Brothers-are getting their score for the season in vinyl from merch company Mutant.

Gearbox's Borderlands games are known for quite a few things, but the biggest among those is arguably its sense of humor. It was Borderlands 2 where the franchise's sense of comedy really took shape, and the series has since been littered with humor largely in the vein of crass or internet humor. No surprise then that...Read more...

Later this year, Disney is taking viewers back to the world of Pride Rock with Mufasa, a prequel to its 2019 live-action remake of The Lion King. If you find yourself wanting to watch the original animated version again, good news: that one's getting a re-release.

If there's one thing Tom Cruise knows how to do, it's be a movie star. Over the years, he's achieved a mythic stature as the last of a dying breed, from a time when leading actors mattered more than the characters they'd inhabit or the costumes they'd wear. However true that is or not, there's no denying that some...Read more...

Hoo-boy, it's been a while since we've heard anything about the Legend of Vox Machina, hasn't it? If you've been itching for some more Dungeons & Dragons fun courtesy of Critical Role's animated adaptation, you're in luck: the show is coming back starting October 3.

E3 may be dead, but its spirit lives on in the Summer Game Awards. Geoff Keighley's annual showcase was light on big blockbusters, by his own admission, but it was made up for with a variety of double-A and indie titles that caught everyone's attention. Here's the best of what we saw that fell in our wheelhouse in...Read more...

YouTube announced this week it will place new restrictions on the types of gun-related videos that can appear on the video-sharing platform, including a ban on videos that directly promote the sale of firearms and new 18+ restrictions on videos about 3D printing guns. And, as you can imagine, people who create...Read more...

It's almost the end of the developer conference season, and Apple is the last one up to bat. Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference, or WWDC, is expected to be ripe with announcements for iOS, macOS, iPad OS, and the rest of the software that keeps the walled garden fresh-even the Vision Pro.

Alan Wake 2 was one of the best games of last year, and now players have a reason to start up the game again. And this time, it has very little to do with Alan Wake himself.

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It's time to celebrate Father's Day and for those geeky dads, io9 has a guide for must-have gifts to show them they're special.Read more...

Before we get a sequel to our favorite animated movie of last year-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem-the brothers are heading to two dimensions, and TV, for a new animated series. And it seems like we're going to be getting them flying solo for a little while along the way, thanks to a nefarious new threat.

Alex Jones has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to sell the majority of his assets, including the conspiracy theory media empire InfoWars, in order to pay the roughly $1.5 billion he owes the families of people who died in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a report from the Associat...Read more...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1987 action film The Running Man is based on a 1982 Stephen King story, but only loosely. The names are the same and the idea of a reality show where people are hunted and killed is there, but the film version is widely different beyond that. The upcoming remake, from director Edgar Wright and...Read more...

The 120-metric ton Starship rocket not only soared to the skies during its fourth test flight, but both stages also returned, with the booster landing in the Gulf of Mexico and the upper stage experiencing a chaotic reentry. This test brings the super-heavy lift vehicle closer to achieving reusability.Read more...

The Boys returns to Prime Video next week with a big election storyline-and the skewering of current events will be more present than ever in Eric Kripke's hit superhero satire. As the series enters its fourth season, the showrunner says he's totally fine with turning off certain viewers who aren't on board with that.Read more...

Gainax is one of the most legendary names in anime-the studio born from Hideaki Anno's collaboration with his fellow university students on the famous Daicon III short film that went on to spearhead legendary works like Gunbuster, FLCL, Gurren Lagann, and, of course, Neon Genesis Evangelion. But for many years, it's...Read more...

Microsoft finally addressed customers' and researchers' concerns about its auto-screenshotting, AI-enabled Recall feature. The company promises the screencaps will have more encryption, and you'll need to use your face, fingerprint, or PIN to access the feature. Most of all, the tech giant is telling anyone concerned...Read more...

Even though it's Star Wars, The Acolyte was a gamble. A new show, set in a new time period, featuring all-new characters played by actors you recognize but maybe don't know by name just yet. Its first episodes also held secrets that changed the entire trajectory of the story. If any Star Wars show wasn't going to hit...Read more...

Last year, one of the best aspects of celebrating Doctor Who's 60th anniversary-aside from the pretty great specials themselves-was Tales of the TARDIS, the special anthology-format retelling of classic Doctor Who episodes with newly recorded interstitials from classic Doctors and companions. Now, the series is coming...Read more...

One of the latest health trends on TikTok and other social media is mouth taping, which is exactly what it sounds like. By keeping your mouth shut at night, proponents claim, you can snore less, sleep better, and even have a fresher breath. But what does the science behind mouth taping actually say?

Just over three years ago Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty, became a Wall Street sensation, inspiring a pack of amateur investors to buy up shares of GameStop and briefly make it one of the world's most prized stocks. The Twitter account for Roaring Kitty started tweeting last month and people blindly ran headfirst...Read more...

When House of the Dragon season one premiered, its built-in audience of Game of Thrones fans noticed immediately a similarity between the two shows: Ramin Djawadi's iconic theme song. And Dragon's opening-credits graphics-while not identical-were certainly evocative of Thrones'. When Dragon...Read more...

Apple guru Mark Gurman from Bloomberg recently reported that Apple could likely release a dedicated password manager app in the next versions of its software for iPhone, iPad, and Mac: iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS 15. The intel comes from insider folks with knowledge of the Cupertino company's next steps and wish to...Read more...

The last time Hasbro asked you to throw down a lot of money to get a Star Wars toy made, it was to bring the crew of the Ghost, and their ship, to the Vintage Collection. Now the toymaker wants to bring things back down to earth-well, Tatooine-for something that's less swooshable, but pretty hefty as is.

Researchers tagging marine animals off Australia's Orpheus Island were shocked when a tiger shark they caught spat up an echidna, a grub-eating monotreme recognizable for its spine-covered body. Known for eating just about anything, it seems this tiger shark met its match.Read more...

If your TikTok feed has been flooded lately with hilarious references to a mysterious figure known as The Dirt Man," you're not alone. Carter Vail's song is just 30 seconds long but has inspired covers, jokes about wives puzzled by their husbands' new bedroom habits, and practically an entire Dirt Man Extended...Read more...

Microsoft is getting its own AI upscaling technology baked straight into Windows 11 that will appear on the latest Copilot+ PCs. It's called Automatic Super Resolution, or Auto SR, and it should work on any game you're playing on PC. While there's still a smorgasbord of potential pitfalls, it promises gamers they can...Read more...

Richard Sherman left a grand legacy behind after his recent passing; along with his brother Robert, he made the blueprints for what Disney music would become. But he left some surprises too, as we'll soon hear on Disney: A Recorded History.Read more...

Apple is expected to announce major artificial intelligence updates to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac next week during its Worldwide Developers Conference. Except Apple won't call its system artificial intelligence, like everyone else, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Friday. The system will reportedly be called...Read more...

House of the Dragon's Matt Smith and Rings of Power's Morfydd Clark get into some creepy tree business for Starve Acre. Doctor Who shows off some feathery new aliens from its latest episode. Plus, when to expect the return of Daryl and Carol in their Walking Dead spinoff. Spoilers get!

Can you believe it's been 10 years since Netflix last made any big changes to its interface? A new TV app redesign will be rolling out to a subset of users on Thursday. It's a new Netflix for a new streaming landscape that's no longer just focused on movies and shows only but on live sports or even video games.

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