- newJohn Carpenter Says a Thing Sequel Might Be On the Way
Could another Resident Evil movie be on the way? The live-action Moana remake has found its director. Get a glimpse into Barbie’s dream house. Taika Waititi talks about the struggle of writing his Star Wars movie. Plus, what’s coming on Superman…
- 2 hours ago 1 Jun 23, 9:00am -
- newBeReal Tries to Keep the Buzz Up With New Instagram-esque Chat Feature
BeReal dropped a new feature to help users better connect with their friends by using RealMoji reactions or RealChat. The addition seems similar to Instagram, as BeReal seems to compete with the platform to stay in the social media limelight.Read mor…
- 2 hours ago 1 Jun 23, 8:40am -
- newLife Finds a Way to Make Jurassic Park Even Cooler With New Transformers Mashups
They’re going to be making sequels to Jurassic Park until the end of time, and hopefully one of them takes inspiration from the recent Hasbro Transformers x Jurassic Park mashups, which now include a Dilophosaurus and a Jeep Wrangler that transform…
- 3 hours ago 1 Jun 23, 8:00am -
- newFrom Google's Newest Pixels to a Tetris-Playing McNugget, These Were May's Coolest and Weirdest Gadgets
May brings with it the first long weekend of the (almost) Summer season, and usually kicks off keynote season, with Google announcing lots of new hardware at its annual I/O developer’s conference. But there was a lot more than just Pixel devices in…
- 3 hours ago 1 Jun 23, 8:00am -
- newCritical Role Has a Custom Zelda TTRPG, and We Might Never See It
Last night, Critical Role played a Legend of Zelda-inspired tabletop roleplaying game, and we might never get to see it, play it, or hear about it ever again. This could change but... who knows. The point is that there is a Nintendo-approved Zelda-in…
- 17 hours ago 31 May 23, 6:00pm -
- newFacebook Accuses FTC of Power Grab Over Proposed Changes to $5 Billion Privacy Settlement
Lawyers for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are accusing the Federal Trade Commission of attempting to exert more power than the agency is granted by law. The agency is planning to revise its 2020 settlement with Facebook over the…
- 17 hours ago 31 May 23, 5:06pm -
- newLiterary Monsters Leap Off the Page in These Vivid Horror Pop-Up Books
Horror fans are already quite familiar with Dracula, Frankenstein, and Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles, but Canterbury Classics makes a compelling case for a re-read with these beautifully illustrated, cleverly engineered, gen…
- 18 hours ago 31 May 23, 5:00pm -
- newSam Altman Is Ramping Up His EU Charm Offensive After an AI Regulation Hissy Fit
Sam Altman wants to hit the reset button. The OpenAI CEO threw a small tantrum last week when it became apparent that the European Union planned to move ahead with a proposed law that would institute a broad regulatory framework to protect against th…
- 18 hours ago 31 May 23, 4:17pm -
- newAmazon Settles FTC's Ring and Alexa Privacy Lawsuits for $31 Million
Amazon settled two different privacy cases with the Federal Trade Commission for just under $31 million Wednesday, agreeing to penalties for violating children’s privacy with its Alexa smart speakers and exposing Ring smart doorbell users videos to…
- 18 hours ago 31 May 23, 4:11pm -
- newCritics Thoroughly Unimpressed With AI-Reimagined Mona Lisa
Critics are speaking out against an AI-generated expansion of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting, among others, which fills the gaps previously left to the imagination. An image of the recreated painting shows an expansive background to the ori…
- 19 hours ago 31 May 23, 3:49pm -
- newMiles Morales and Spider-Woman May Be Getting New Spider-Movies
One of the beautiful things about the Spider-Verse movies is they create an open slate for any and everything Spider-Man to happen. And, with the second film in that series opening this week, one of the film’s producers confirmed that soon the real…
- 19 hours ago 31 May 23, 3:31pm -
- newMagic: The Gathering Is Making Racists Mad, and That's Good
Yesterday, Magic: The Gathering revealed the remaining cards of its special Universes Beyond collaboration with Middle-earth Enterprises. The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth is the first crossover collection of its size with Magic: The Gath…
- 19 hours ago 31 May 23, 3:15pm -
- newFacebook Threatens to Nuke News in California if Forced to Pay Publishers
Meta lashed out at its home state on Wednesday, threatening to shut off access to news links on Facebook and Instagram in California if the legislature passed a bill forcing it to pay news publishers for their journalism.Read more...
- 20 hours ago 31 May 23, 3:03pm -
- newAmazon Employees Walk Out to Fight Back-to-Office Policy and Climate Change
Amazon employees staged a walkout on Wednesday, citing a “lack of trust” in leadership for its back-to-office mandate and to rally the tech giant to do more to curb climate change. The walk-out is took place worldwide with 1,900 employees pledged…
- 20 hours ago 31 May 23, 3:01pm -
- newOzempic Craze Has Spawned a Sketchy Black Market, FDA Warns
The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from suspect sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. The agency has received reports of adverse effects from people using semagluti…
- 20 hours ago 31 May 23, 3:00pm -
- newJUICE Probe Is Fully Deployed and Ready to Explore Jupiter's Icy Moons
It’s been six weeks since Europe’s JUICE mission launched towards the Jovian system, and the spacecraft is now all suited-up, with its instruments ready to explore the potential habitability of Jupiter’s mysterious, icy moons. Read more...
- 20 hours ago 31 May 23, 2:35pm -
- newAmazing Spider-Man #26 Does Ms. Marvel Dirty
Ever since early leaks confirmed Marvel’s plans to kill off one of its most influential new creations of the 21st century, fans have feared the worst for Kamala Khan in this week’s Amazing Spider-Man #26. And yet somehow her exit is even hollower…
- 20 hours ago 31 May 23, 2:30pm -
- new‘Slack Isn’t Safe:’ Abortion Groups Protest Slack HQ for Beefed Up Encryption
A coalition of over 90 organizations protested outside of Slack’s San Francisco headquarters Wednesday, driving mobile billboards around Slack’s offices in a protest-style rally and calling on the company to enable end-to-end encryption and add b…
- 21 hours ago 31 May 23, 1:54pm -
- newThe Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars Is Ghosting NASA Scientists
The Ingenuity helicopter paved new ground (air?) in April 2019, when it communicated data of its first flight—the first powered, controlled flight on another planet—to NASA scientists on Earth.Read more...
- 21 hours ago 31 May 23, 1:30pm -
- newHow The Flash Plays With Some Man of Steel Expectations
In Zack Snyder’s 2013 film Man of Steel, General Zod comes to Earth looking for a Kryptonian he believes has the key to bringing his planet back to life. That Kryptonian—Superman—shows himself quickly, setting off a chain of events that ends wi…
- 21 hours ago 31 May 23, 1:15pm -
- newURL on Hundreds of Thousands of Maryland License Plates Redirects to an Online Filipino Casino
Hundreds of thousands of Maryland vehicles are unknowingly a mobile advertisement for a Filipino casino after a license plate URL recently began redirecting to the gambling hall.Read more...
- 22 hours ago 31 May 23, 12:30pm -
- newCaleb McLaughlin Wants to Play DC's Static Shock
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- newThe Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in June 2023
Let’s get streaming! 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 thin…
- 23 hours ago 31 May 23, 11:30am -
- newRocket Carrying North Korea's First Spy Satellite Crashes Into the Sea
North Korea’s attempt to launch a military satellite to orbit ended in failure as the rocket suffered a malfunction mid-flight, triggering air raid sirens in neighboring countries. The attempted launch was condemned as a violation of international…
- 23 hours ago 31 May 23, 11:25am -
- newCanada’s Wildfires Are So Bad, They’re Messing With Air Quality in the U.S.
Wildfires have been raging throughout Nova Scotia since last week, lowering air quality for cities in the Northeast. As a result, skies across New England, New York, and New Jersey have been hazy this week as smoke from the wildfires made its way dow…
- 23 hours ago 31 May 23, 11:20am -
- newWhat to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2023
It’s springtime in the tech world, so birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the Apple campus is getting ready for its annual developer conference. WWDC 2023 is happening June 5 at Apple’s spaceship HQ in Cupertino. Following this month’s…
- 23 hours ago 31 May 23, 11:18am -
- newLast Gasp: A Dying NASA Telescope Spotted Three Exoplanets in Its Final Days
Five years since the Kepler Space Telescope was retired, a team of astronomers believe they’ve found exoplanets captured by some of the veteran observatory’s last light.Read more...
- 23 hours ago 31 May 23, 11:10am -
- newYou Do It: Twitter Outsources AI Image Detection to Its Users
Twitter is responding to an uptick in misleading AI-generated images by expanding its flawed, crowdsourced fact-checking feature, Community Notes, to include images. The new feature, whose debut comes just one week after the social network amplified…
- 24 hours ago 31 May 23, 10:34am -
- Ryan Gosling Is Feeling the Kenergy
In a new interview with GQ, Ryan Gosling takes the interviewer on a train ride and for a long time, they just talk. While the Barbie film is obviously the reason this profile is getting published now, the interview touches on his earlier roles, his b…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 10:30am -
- Uber Eats Set to Deploy 2,000 More Delivery Robots Into the Wild
Your next food delivery could make its way to you via a robot. Uber Eats is set to release 2,000 delivery robots into the wild through an expansion of the company’s deal with Serve Robotics.Read more...
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 10:22am -
- Airline Asks Passengers to Step on the Scale Ahead of Boarding in Weight Survey
A New Zealand airline is weighing passengers before boarding as part of a month-long survey to gauge the overall weight of the plane. Air New Zealand says it hopes to weigh 10,000 passengers to help pilots better understand the weight and balance of…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 10:05am -
- Apple Could Announce Several New Macs at WWDC After Months of Sluggish Sales
As we approach Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week, and the company’s keynote presentation on Monday, June 5, more details about what will potentially be revealed are starting to surface, with the latest rumors indicating that on to…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 10:00am -
- Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After Its Advice Goes Horribly Wrong
AI chatbots aren’t much good at offering emotional support being—you know—not a human, and—it can’t be stated enough—not actually intelligent. That didn’t stop The National Eating Disorder Association from trying to foist a chatbot onto…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 9:55am -
- Deadpool 3 Could Bring Back Even More X-Men Movie Heroes
New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem posters show off the turtle bros’ arsenal. Boots Riley’s surreal new Amazon show I’m a Virgo gets a suitably perplexing new trailer. Plus, even more maximal madness in Transformers: Rise of the B…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 9:45am -
- You'll Need Batman's Budget For All the Best Lego Sets Arriving in June
Although most people’s thoughts turn towards getting outside and soaking up the sun when June arrives, for Lego fans, it’s just another month to hunker down with a thick instruction book and thousands of plastic bricks. Although June arrives with…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 9:00am -
- Watch Live: Axiom Space's Private Crew Splashes Down to Earth From the ISS
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four private astronauts is making its way down from the International Space Station (ISS) and is set to splash down in Florida on Tuesday night. The ocean touchdown will be broadcast live. Read more...
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 8:34am -
- Black Mirror Season 6 Has a Trailer and a Date for Your Dystopian Binge: June 15
In just a few weeks, five new episodes of Netflix hit Black Mirror will be available for your eager eyeballs. Today, we’ve got a scrap of nourishment in the form of a season six trailer, which teases a star-studded cast and more of that smart, sati…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 8:20am -
- This Iconic American Yellow Bus Company Is Ramping Up Its Electric Bus Production
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 8:15am -
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is a Wonder
As the credits rolled on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, it felt like waking up from a dream. In this dream, something impossible happened. A team of talented filmmakers made a sequel to one of the, if not the, best superhero films of all-time t…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 8:10am -
- TMNT: Mutant Mayhem’s New Trailer Brings More Menaces
Our first look at TMNT: Mutant Mayhem introduced us to a vivid, animated world of some truly teenaged mutant heroes—it’s the first time Leo, Raph, Mikey, and Donnie have actually been voiced by teens. But what’s bringing these kids to the surfa…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 8:00am -
- How To Search the Web and Use Plugins With ChatGPT Plus
ChatGPT is improving again—or at least it is if you’re paying $20 a month to access the Plus version of the AI chatbot. While free users can’t access them for now, two major new features promise to make a huge difference to the capabilities of…
- 1 day ago 31 May 23, 8:00am -
- Don Your Aether-Armor With the Gaming Shelf
There’s a lot of great new releases coming out of big studios, including an absolutely massive Magic: The Gathering set in collaboration with Lord of the Rings, but I’m really excited for the indie games that are starting to get delivered as Zine…
- 2 days ago 30 May 23, 6:30pm -
- Fidelity: Twitter is Now Only Worth a Third of What Elon Musk Paid for It
Last October, Elon Musk closed on a deal to purchase Twitter for a whopping $44 billion. At the time, it was a price-tag that many estimated to be way too much money. Musk, himself, admitted that he and his co-investors may have overpaid for the soci…
- 2 days ago 30 May 23, 6:10pm -
- The Flash Director Feels No One But Ezra Miller Can Play the Speedster
Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ The Flash has faced a long journey to get to the screen, with various filmmakers attached at various times to take on the Flashpoint-inspired story. A constant throughout, however, has been star Ezra Miller, who remaine…
- 2 days ago 30 May 23, 6:00pm -
- Insidious Is Expanding With a Spinoff Starring Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani
He did it with Saw, he did it with The Conjuring, and now producer James Wan is expanding Insidious too. Even though the franchise’s fifth film, Insidious: The Red Door, is hitting theaters this summer, the next installment of the Insidious series…
- 2 days ago 30 May 23, 5:30pm -
- More Spider-People Are Coming After Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
In 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse blew our collective minds by telling a story about six Spider-people teaming up to save the multiverse. It went on to universal success and acclaim. Read more...
- 2 days ago 30 May 23, 4:40pm -