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An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago. Based on bones of Genyornisnewtoni found in South Australia's Lake Callabonna, the animal weighed about 500 pounds (230...Read more...

What an absurd journey Star Trek: Prodigy has been on. The promising Trek animated series suffered an unjust and abrupt removal from Paramount+ last summer, leaving its second season in the lurch, until Netflix announced it would pick up the series... and only for that sophomore season 2 to accidentally show up on...Read more...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to release an audio recording of President Biden's interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in a court filing on Friday, obtained by Politico. The department cited fears that publicizing the audio could lead to deceptive AI deepfakes of the sitting President.Read more...

The first clip from Netflix's Ultraman: Rising movie teases an adorable kaiju baby. Lois Lane's dad is up to no good in a new clip from My Adventures With Superman. The Boys sets the stage for its return with new character posters. Plus, go behind the scenes on A Quiet Place: Day One. Spoilers, away!

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The inexorable march toward the grave continues for all of us, though at the very least, we don't have a capricious deity named Apple deciding our fate. For those still holding on to your iPhone 5S, you should know Apple has officially put the old phone out to pasture by sticking it in its official obsolete list....Read more...

There's a lot going on in our first look at Venom: The Last Dance. Buddy cop routines with a giant goopy monster, alien invasions, diabolical threats to Eddie Brock's life. But there's also a Symbiote Horse, and that's just rather wonderful.

Rumors about Sonos releasing its first-ever headphones emerged last year when they acquired the T2 software, a Bluetooth audio startup. That wasn't the company's first time trying its hand at headphones. It's been trying to sneak into the headphone market since 2019 and has created a number of product iterations...Read more...

GameStop stock skyrocketed more than 100% on Monday before giving back just some of those huge gains, the latest meme stock rally fueled by the investor and social media personality known as Roaring Kitty."Read more...

This post was updated 6/3/2024 at 8:21 a.m. ET to include more information about OEMs who will sport the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips.Read more...

It's official, the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will face off in the NBA Finals. The best-of-seven series tips off this Thursday and will run through June, until one team achieves the four wins required to be crowned champion.

When web browsers first began to support apps and interactivity, the functionality was basic and slow-but now online apps can do almost as much as desktop apps can, and, more importantly, these online tools are free.

Back in 2018, WB released the CG movie Batman Ninja, its first real foray into anime from production company YamtoWorks and Kamikaze Douga. In the years since, there's been a lot of animated Batman movies, and you'd be fair in thinking Ninja was just an interesting one-off to have in the Bat-library. And you would end...Read more...

Over the last few weeks, there's been plenty of digital ink spilled online about the box office. Movies like Furiosa and The Fall Guy had barely made their initial projections, if they did at all, and it's caused many to wonder about the state of movies this year. After 2023 being filled with banger after banger amid...Read more...

Every once in a while, pockets of the internet collectively choose to put full weight behind reviving a show that was quite well-liked and got cancelled after a season or more. Jericho, Community, and Young Justice are just a handful of examples, and the newest show to join those ranks is last year's animated sci-fi...Read more...

June has just started and that means it's only a few weeks until the official debut of Tiana's Bayou Adventure at the Walt Disney World. Construction on the ride is officially complete, and Disney's marked the occasion providing a 9-minute ride-through video showing the full breadth of what you can expect from the Prin...Read more...

An emerging option for male birth control might be even more appealing to potential users than expected. Preliminary research released Sunday suggests that NES/T-a once-daily gel applied to the shoulders-can effectively suppress men's fertility within a matter of weeks.Read more...

2023 was a pretty big, fairly messy year for Dungeons & Dragons. As Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast overstepped in their attempts to make the actual tabletop game into a massive brand, said brand had a pair of significant bright spots in the utterly massive Baldur's Gate 3 and the pretty good live-action movie Honor...Read more...

It's barely been one full trip around the sun, but Asus and its ROG Ally are back for another crack at the gaming handheld crown. Like the Steam Deck OLED before, Asus now has a new version called the ROG Ally X. It has a better battery, RAM, and redesigned chassis. And yes, it now comes in black.Read more...

Do you like action movies? Do you like the ones where a bunch of crazy nonsense is happening that seems like it defies all the laws of physics? Do you like video games? Good news, all three of those itches are going to be scratched with an adaptation of the Just Cause games.Read more...

This year's a big one for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse: the Godzilla film that kicked off the whole shebang turned 10 earlier in May, andits direct sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters has now hit the five-year mark. The newest MonsterVerse entry, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, came out in...Read more...

Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider franchise is taking two interesting roads as it's got a brand new game in the works. On one side of things, the live-action series courtesy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge has recently moved forward over at Prime Video. And on the other, more immediate end, there's Netflix's Tomb Raider: The...Read more...

Before the month of May ended, Netflix revealed it'd renewed 3 Body Problem for more seasons. At the time, it wasn't entirely clear just how long the show would go on, but the streamer has now officially revealed that fittingly enough, it'll cap things off after two more seasons.Read more...

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular diabetes and obesity drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, can also tweak people's taste buds for the better, preliminary research suggests. Scientists found that women taking semaglutide improved their taste sensitivity, particularly to sweetness. The findings may illuminate another...Read more...

Godzilla Minus One was one of 2023's best movies, if not the best, depending on who you ask. If you're one of the folks who didn't get the chance to see it in theaters, great news: it's now on Netflix and available to own or rent digitally.

Deadpool proved once again that it is a franchise that loves to be in on the joke this week, with its own answer to the infamous Dune popcorn bucket that invites to cram that hand all the way down Hugh Jackman's proverbial throat. And if that wasn't enough for you to catch up on, we've got Lucasfilm taking a stand...Read more...

This week, we got a look at what the future holds for virtual workspaces from some ex-Magic Leap developers. You may need to upgrade to an iPhone 15 Pro or an M4 iPad Pro to take advantage of all the AI features of iOS 18.

What's the funniest moment of live TV you've ever seen? That was the question tweeted by a user on X less than a week ago. And it's produced some of the most hilarious examples of weird broadcasting history that you can imagine.Read more...

The Tesla Cybertruck's launch has been far from smooth, to say the least. We've heard about the time a car wash bricked a Cybertruck, the frunk's taste for fingers and that coolant leaks aren't covered by the warranty even if you've only driven 35 miles since taking delivery. Those are all legitimate problems that...Read more...

This week at the Gizmodo science desk, deputy editor George Dvorsky reported on a modification to the famous Drake Equation that produces a rather sobering result about the number of extraterrestrial intelligences in our Galaxy. Health reporter Ed Cara chronicles a mysterious disease from the 1500s that vanished from...Read more...

Turns out the Elvira-inspired intro to the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice trailer is rooted in a new character development for the grown-up Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder).Read more...

Star Trek: Discovery ended this week, with an episode that, perhaps in true Discovery style, threw some wild curveballs and equally wild pacing together to give us a bumper episode of ups and downs. But it really did save its weirdest moment for last: and even weirder, it's what might have been Discovery's next...Read more...

Disney Parks' first venture into making one of their lands immersive opened five years ago today-May 31, 2019-inviting guests to live out their own Star Wars adventures at Disneyland's Galaxy's Edge.

The boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul originally scheduled to stream live on Netflix July 20 has been postponed, according to a tweet from Most Valuable Promotions, which is co-producing the fight. The stated reason for the delay is an ulcer flare-up that Tyson is suffering from.Read more...

When in doubt, add a little Giancarlo Esposito to your cast-even better if you can get him to play a villain. The Mandalorian's Moff Gideon is heading to a different Disney project to play another bad guy, this time (as rumored) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe entry Captain America: Brave New World.

June is here, and it's bringing tons of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books for summer reading. They're full of star-crossed couples, deep-space bounty hunters, intergalactic art thieves, and passengers on a magical train-plus two different tales of cursed movies, as well as two different tales of utopias gone wrong.Read more...

Oh, the irony of the National Security Agency suggests that smartphone users turn off their phones occasionally. But the NSA is right: you do need to restart your phone regularly to rid it of demons. Some phones even let you schedule the restart, so you don't have to think about it.

If you're in and around the United Kingdom next weekend, we're incredibly jealous. Vice Press is hosting its annual Open House pop culture convention on June 8 in Sheffield featuring some of the UK's best artists, designers, makers, and independent vendors selling movie posters, art prints, t-shirts, vinyl, Blu-ray...Read more...

After a big month for spacey goodness in May, Lego is bringing things back down to earth for its June releases-or back down to Middle-earth in particular, with the standout release of its next Lord of the Rings set, Barad-Dur. But what lies beyond the dark plains of Mordor, where shadows lie? A little Star Wars, some...Read more...

May was a loaded month with Apple and Google both releasing products. Project Astra was definitely the most interesting thing we saw at an otherwise boring Google I/O. Apple also dropped its latest iPad Pros with the all-new M4 chip and OLED displays, a 13-inch iPad Air for the first time, and the incredibly cool Apple...Read more...

He's thick, he's green, he's saving the galaxy from here to Tatooine! Yes, that's right. Kit Fisto has finally gotten his very own Hot Toys figure. And hot" is the correct word here, right? Those eyes? Those tentacles? That bonus forearm armor from Star Wars: The Clone Wars? What's not to love?Read more...

Zack Snyder may be going from This is Sparta!" to This is streaming!" The popular filmmakeris reportedly in talks to executive producer and direct a new series set before the events of his first blockbuster, 300.Read more...

Tesla is having more seat belt problems. The company is recalling more than 125,000 Models S, X, 3, and Y because their seat belt warnings aren't lighting up and chiming like they're supposed to, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said.

A female stingray that was discovered to be pregnant, despite not sharing space with a male stingray in at least eight years, has a reproductive disease according to the Aquarium and Shark Lab in Henderson, North Carolina.Read more...

May showers bring June flowers and also, lots of streaming content. Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And...Read more...

SpaceX's Starship program is gearing up for another crucial test flight next week, pending regulatory approval. This flight will focus on reentry and landing, while also gathering comprehensive flight data to improve future missions.Read more...

When Amazon gave us our first glimpse at the second season of Rings of Power, it was easy to note that one character in particular was oddly absent. But now, it turns out she won't be in the new season at all.Read more...

For nearly 10 years, there's been only one spacecraft able to keep its cool above the hellish landscape of Venus. The Japanese Akatsuki probe was sent to Earth's neighboring planet to observe its atmospheric dynamics, but the lone Venusian mission has suddenly gone quiet.Read more...

Audiences everywhere will soon meet the first live-action Wookiee Jedi in Star Wars history: Kelnacca. He's one of the key characters on The Acolyte, the new Disney+ show that starts on June 4, and is played by the man who took over the role of Chewbacca, Joonas Suotamo.Read more...

Google rolled out AI answers called AI Overview for your search queries earlier this month, and the results were hilarious. From adding glue to your pizza to saying parachutes are useless, it was quite a mess that Google says it's fixing.Read more...