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I often use the iPhone's Voice Memos at product briefings for interviews. As you can imagine, transcribing a 20-minute recording could be tedious. Thankfully, AppleInsider has learned of an AI-powered update coming to the Voice Memos and Notes apps on iPhone that will soon be able to transcribe and summarize voice...Read more...

American philanthropist Melinda French Gates will resign from her post as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, the organization she co-founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates.Read more...

A new Wicked trailer is coming Wednesday, and with that announcement comes a brief featurette showing director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) sharing his excitement for the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical-but mostly focuses on stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, including their emotional, adorable...Read more...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) during its Spring Update on Monday morning in San Francisco. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and OpenAI staff showcased their newest flagship model, capable of real-time verbal conversations with a friendly AI chatbot that convincingly speaks like a human.Read more...

The fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn's breakout character, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at least four publicly announced titles,...Read more...

Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air quality warnings on Sunday after the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada started to reach the Upper Midwest. And it's causing plenty of anxiety in people across a large swath of the U.S. who are dreading the idea of spending yet another summer choking...Read more...

In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different when it kicks off on Tuesday, May 14.

Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone-and a new chance to deliver a story that's also wildly malleable in quality. Doctor Who is about...Read more...

Earlier this month, South Carolina resident Brent Norman had an especially unlucky time at the beach.Read more...

You've got questions and Wes Ball has answers. His new film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, opened this weekend and io9 recently sat down with the director to talk all about it. We've covered all the non-spoiler stuff already but below, we dive into the film's surprising prologue, some big character revelations,...Read more...

Most folks who walk into a room with an 85-inch TV, let alone a 98-inch TV, offer one of two impressions, often verbalized with some screech of surprise. One is, Wow, look at the size of that thing." The other is, That's just too damn big." TV Maker TCL, a company more known as the quality brand for those looking...Read more...

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Ahmed Best-the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it-shouldn't have needed a Star Wars redemption arc, but he arguably has had one of a sort in the last few years, beyond a renaissance of prequels re-examination, in the form of Kelleran Beq: the Jedi gameshow host...Read more...

GameStop and other meme stocks surged wildly on Monday morning as Keith Gill returned to social media. The leader of the 2021 meme-stock mania, also known as Roaring Kitty and Deep Fucking Value, sent a single tweet on Sunday night that shook the universe of meme stocks, as their fearless leader signaled a second...Read more...

OpenAI will livestream updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4 on Monday at 1 p.m. ET. In a Friday tweet, CEO Sam Altman rejected several reports that OpenAI is launching a search engine or GPT-5 at the event. However, Altman announced something that feels like magic" is coming to ChatGPT.Read more...

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There's a lot of really interesting things going on in Fallout's first season, but few are as immediately fascinating as Walton Goggin's mysterious hunter-known only to the inhabitants of the Wasteland as The Ghoul," but to audiences as the pre-war actor Cooper Howard. It's a mystery that works thanks to an...Read more...

Google's Pixel releases are giving a major case of deja vu. I bought the Pixel 8 in October, but the Pixel 8a feels like nothing more than a reprise, save for the camera hardware and a few other bits. This speaks to Google's slightly confusing trajectory regarding its hardware. As a two-time buyer of the first-tier...Read more...

OpenAI is gearing up for a much-anticipated spring update to GPT-4 and ChatGPT on Monday, and multiple reports are pointing to voice as the next frontier for Sam Altman's AI company. On Friday's episode of the All-In podcast, Altman indicated that voice-based AI systems, much like in the 2013 film Her," could be a...Read more...

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Tech giant Apple is poised to see its first-ever strike on its retail operations after staff at a store in Maryland voted to authorize a strike against the company.Read more...

If you haven't seen before why eight buffalo' strung together form a valid English sentence, then strap in for a linguistic trip. Buffalo has at least three meanings: as a collective noun it refers to bison, as a proper noun it's a city in New York, and as a verb it means to bewilder. The eight-buffalo sentence uses...Read more...

Each Planet of the Apes reboot has featured a central human in the conflict between the hyperintelligent apes and what remains of the human race. For the newly released Kingdom, our human proxy is Mae, played by The Witcher's Freya Allan. Though she initially seems like a regular feral human-who can't speak, as...Read more...

The second season of Peacemaker is currently filming, and James Gunn is now starting to slowly peel back the curtain on what to expect from the Max series' return. In the first real bit of casting news, it's been revealed that Frank Grillo will appear as Rick Flag, Sr.Read more...

After a seven-year hiatus, we're once again back in the world of the primates. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes continues the story originally started with 2011's Rise, but with a massive, 300-year time jump and new characters reckoning with what remains of Caesar's legacy. When it's been so long since we've had one...Read more...

We're about halfway through 2024, and we've gotten some solid showings of horror both on TV (like Chucky, Them: The Scare) and in the theaters (Abigail, Late Night With the Devil). There's more to come with the likes of Alien: Romulus and Speak No Evil, and Netflix is adding something new into the mix with Nightmares...Read more...

It's May, and that means we get an idea of what shows will or won't be coming back in the next year. For Apple, the streamer has decided to call it on Constellation, ending the series after a single-season run.

Roger Corman, producer and writer of indie and B-movies like Death Race 2000 and Sharktopus, passed away on May 9, per Variety. He was 98 years old, and said to have passed surrounded by his family.

There's a new human entering the Jurassic World franchise, and he's gonna be fighting for his life in this new film.Read more...

It's been over a month since Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire came out, and once the credits rolled, discussion pivoted to what was coming next. Were Warner Bros. and Legendary going to split the two monsters off into their own isolated adventures, or would they do another straight crossover?

New seasons of Doctor Who have always been a big deal, but this one has had even more anticipation behind it. Between Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and the return of Russell T. Davies, there's been the promise of a bold, new era for the sci-fi series, which started on Friday with the two-episode premiere on Disney+.Read more...

Over the last few months, news has slowly come tricking out about 28 Years Later, which fans of the first two movies have been wanting for a long time. We know Danny Boyle's back in the director's chair with returning writer Alex Garland, and that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jack O'Connell are headlining...Read more...

Welcome back to another week that was-from jumping in hot with Battlestar Galactica's return to streaming, to our first look at our brand new Superman, and celebrating 25 years of Lego Star Wars, a lot's been going on. And that's before you get to the impending arrival of Furiosa, and... well, more Lego to drain our...Read more...

The Cybertruck continues to make us laugh with how bad it is, and now it's literally breaking people's fingers and slicing their legs. The strange, secretive AI model referred to as gpt2-chatbot" has resurfaced. Check out the rest of the big tech news for the week.Read more...

If you've been on the internet lately, it's almost impossible to avoid the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Rap beefs come and go, however, Metro Boomin's BBL Drizzy" may outlive it all. The track holds the number-one spot on SoundCloud's New and Hot chart with roughly 3.3 million listens. But even better, the...Read more...

This week, we got a first look at Apple's super powerful, ultra-thin iPad Pro (and iPad Air). Amazon also found a way to jam even more ads into Prime video. And finally, our review of the highly anticipated Rabbit R1 AI Companion. Let's just say it won't be replacing your smartphone anytime soon.Read more...

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes in in-development rocket engine that NASA could eventually use to reach Mars in two months. Reporter Isaac Schultz details the severe geomagnetic storm warning and a new fusion breakthrough, while health reporter Ed Cara describes a previously unknown...Read more...

The Mandalorian and Grogu may have its first new cast member, and she's a sci-fi legend. Sigourney Weaver, the star of Alien, Avatar, and Ghostbusters, is in talks to join the next Star Wars film, scheduled to hit theaters May 22, 2026.Read more...

This week brought the news that all four seasons, plus the miniseries and the made-for-TV movie, of the Battlestar Galactica revival are now easily accessible on Amazon Prime. That addition means the streamer-which is already an excellent destination for sci-fi films-has even more reason to lure in fans of deep-space...Read more...

Yes, you just saw a statue come to life with state of the art Imagineering tech on Disney Parks' Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey, locatedin theFrozen Kingdom at Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs. If you want to ride this attraction sooner rather than later (it might be coming to Disneyland), you'll have to fly to Tokyo...Read more...

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Twenty-four years after it, alongside the X-Wing, launched Lego Star Wars' sublime Ultimate Collector Series line, the TIE Interceptor screamed to life this past weekend as Lego's latest big-ticket Star Wars model to celebrate May 4. You've already seen our thoughts in video form about the process of bringing the...Read more...

Over the next two weeks, I guarantee many of us will have at least two good hours. That's because, in the lead-up to Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, many of us will take that time and rewatch Mad Max: Fury Road. The 2015 George Miller film almost instantly became an all-time classic and a rewatch will add worthy context...Read more...

Hundreds of climate protesters upset with the environmental impact of Tesla's manufacturing plant in Grunheide, Germany broke through a police line and stormed Europe's lone Gigafactory on Friday, according to several reports on social media. The protesters were stopped at a fence and failed to get inside the plant,...Read more...

Jan Sramek, the CEO behind the controversial California Forever project, appeared at Bloomberg's annual tech conference in San Francisco on Thursday. He was treated to a not-exactly-amiable discussion with one of the outlet's reporters, Karen Breslau. For the most part, Sramek tried to keep it together as he was asked...Read more...

When audiences last saw Rey Skywalker, she announced her new name and the credits rolled. What specifically she'd do next, how she was feeling, andall that kind of stuff was left for the future. Nowwe know that future includes a new movie-but well before that, an official Star Wars item is shining a light on those...Read more...

Just when we thought things couldn't get any worse for Boeing's attempt at launching a crew to orbit, in comes a longstanding industry feud over rocket valves for a shocking third act.Read more...

Jack Dorsey reemerged on Elon Musk's X recently, calling it a freedom technology" last week as he stepped down from Bluesky's board. In an interview with Pirate Wires Thursday, the founder of Twitter says he never really left the platform, he just was posting less. Dorsey also shed light on his departure from...Read more...