Did you check out V/H/S/85, the latest entry in the long-running found-footage horror anthology series, when it hit Shudder last week? A hell of a lot of people did: it was the most-watched film premiere of the year for Shudder and AMC+. It comes as…
Lees meerGoogle says it will defend users in a legal setting if copyright issues arise with their generative artificial intelligence. It joins the ranks of other big tech players who have done the same.“Put simply: if customers are challenged on copyright gr…
Lees meerThe game Five Nights at Freddy’s gained an immense cult following not just for its jump scares, as popularized by the then-burgeoning “let’s play” YouTube channels back in 2014, but for the swath of theories and hidden lore behind the series’ murder…
Lees meer“Wahoo, wahee,” indeed. After months of speculation, Nintendo affirmed the new VO actor for Mario is the Los Angeles-based voice actor Kevin Afghani.Read more...
Lees meerThe Biden administration announced plans on Friday to award up to $7 billion to construct regional hubs throughout the U.S. that support making and using hydrogen, in hopes of phasing out fossil fuels and slowing down climate change.Read more...
Lees meerLoki season two, episode two, “Breaking Bad,” finds Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) chasing X-5 (Rafael Casal) to find out if he’s located Sylvie (Sophia di Martino). The Marvel Studios series jumps right back into the time crunch to …
Lees meerIn a scene seemingly pulled directly out of Cyberpunk 2077, DARPA, the army’s top research and development arm, is reportedly exploring ways to defend Army soldiers against “cognitive attacks” that could result in them puking under their HoloLens mi…
Lees meerIt’s a fun time to be a Hellboy fan right now, between the general vibes of spooky season and the fact that the rad-looking video game Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is set to drop next week. But why not keep the party going on this cursèd Friday the 13th wit…
Lees meerRegulators in the EU sent letters to Meta, TikTok, and X/Twitter Thursday, giving the platforms 24 hours to address misinformation and other “illegal” content related to the Israel-Hamas war. It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening on these platfo…
Lees meerThe first word found and translated from an unopened carbonized scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum was announced this week, as part of the $1,000,000 Vesuvius Challenge to read the papyri from the settlement that was buried by the eruption of…
Lees meerHorror master John Carpenter’s interests have tilted away from directing for some years now, as he’s preferred to focus on other interests like music and his comics company. He’s back in the chair for new Peacock series John Carptenter’s Suburban Sc…
Lees meerAstropad has recently released an app, Slate, that lets you use your iPad as a drawing tablet that you can connect to your Mac to see the results. Apple’s Sidecar has allowed you to do this for years now, but the new app leaves your iPad as a blank …
Lees meerIt’s the most wonderful and perhaps only acceptable time of the year to be wandering the halls of the Javits Center in New York City: Comic Con is back, and that means, aside from big news and celebrity panels, there’s so much wonderful, wonderful c…
Lees meerInterview With the Vampire, one of the few projects from a major network that has been able to resume production during the continued SAG-AFTRA strike, (and one of my personal favorite TV shows), has finally gotten a new teaser. Yesterday at New Yor…
Lees meerNo matter what you thought of The X-Files’ recent revival (we had, uh, mixed feelings), the truth (is out there) that it remains one of the best-loved sci-fi series ever. In 2020, io9 got a chance to spotlight Paul Terry’s wonderfully creative The X…
Lees meerThe Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from unapproved sources of ketamine. According to the agency, compounded ketamine is increasingly being sold as a treatment for depression and other mental health issues, despite it not…
Lees meerMark another notch in the slow demise of physical media. On Friday, massive electronics store chain Best Buy confirmed that it will stop selling all DVDs and Blu-Rays starting in the new year.Read more...
Lees meerUpdate: Tuesday, October 10, 9:12 a.m. ET: United Launch Alliance launched the first two prototype satellites, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2, on an Atlas V rocket on October 6, 2023.Read more...
Lees meerIn 2016, Adult Swim aired Scavengers, an eight-minute animated short about a pair of human survivors on a hostile alien world. It wasn’t long before co-directors Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner and production company Green Street were given the …
Lees meerYour phone’s camera is a lot like your eyes. They both view the world around you, take in massive amounts of light and are quite sensitive. Importantly, both your camera and your eyes can be severely damaged by being pointed straight at a solar ecli…
Lees meerYou should have an Apple Watch if you use an iPhone. It is the defacto accessory, perfectly tailored to the iPhone user’s needs and, presumably, wants. I say “presumably” because Apple’s idea to add the Double Tap gesture is such a distinctive, nich…
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