Donald Sutherland, the veteran actor whose career stretched back to the late 1960s and included an array of classics across a wide variety of genres (The Dirty Dozen, MASH, The Day of the Locust, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, National Lampoon’s An…
Lees meerPerplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape part…
Lees meerForbes has recently reported on a new Wi-Fi vulnerability for Windows that can let hackers take over your Windows device and infect it with malware by just being on the same Wi-Fi network as you. Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability and advised…
Lees meerCall center employees have notoriously unpleasant jobs. They field questions from disgruntled customers all day long and can only respond with corporate-mandated jargon. Many expect AI will one day replace these customer service jobs, but for now, s…
Lees meerFriday is when the Shadow of the Erdtree drops, and it’s already shaping up to be some of the best DLC ever released for a game. In preparation for the big release, Elden Ring received a new update with a variety of changes, but the big one is addin…
Lees meerWe know as much about Apple’s AI, dubbed “Apple Intelligence,” as we’re about to, at least until we get some hands-on time with it, which likely won’t be until next year. Still, you can only experience a better Siri and “semantic” AI if you have an …
Lees meerHere at io9, we love Godzilla Minus One. We also love very cool art. And we especially love very cool Godzilla Minus One art. So it’s a good job Toho is getting ready to release some of the film’s most glorious official posters for us to plaster our…
Lees meerFor the most part, The Acolyte has set itself apart from the rest of Star Wars—both in terms of its placement in the timeline, a hundred years before the prequel trilogy, and in its desire to focus on new characters and explorations, rather than the…
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Lees meerAfter last week’s episode of The Acolyte took us into the past for a fascinating story of the Force and perspective alike, things get back to the bigger mysteries of the season in “Day”. But the gift of last week’s context allows the show to re-exam…
Lees meerI love EDM and have briefly tried my hand at DJing before to, let’s say, mixed results. So when I found out that I could make music with a pair of balls instead of a turntable or digital mixer. Who knows, maybe this will be the start of my career as…
Lees meerJust months away from being banned in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be putting some salt in TikTok’s wound. The agency has issued a bizarre message about referring a complaint about the social media app to the Department of…
Lees meerThe elevator description for Fede Alvarez’s 2009 sci-fi short, Panic Attack!, is as follows: “Giant robots invade Montevideo!” Frankly, the future director of Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe, and Alien: Romulus would have had us at “giant robots,” but it’s…
Lees meerThe creature work in Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s The Acolyte has expanded the Star Wars universe with new species and droids. Following fellas like Pip, Grogu, Babu Frik (my personal fave), and more is no easy task, but the creatives sure pull it off. O…
Lees meerThe Boys season four has gotten some disparaging ratings on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to some of the most hilarious self-owns coming from a certain small demographic of fans who didn’t realize the show was a satire. Somehow it escaped them until now th…
Lees meerUpdate, 5:31 p.m. ET: The 911 system in Massachusetts has been restored, according to a tweet from the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. A cause for the outage is still being investigated and the agency writes it will, “provide…
Lees meerLast week, Josh Gad teased sci-fi fans with an excited but cryptic social media post referencing a script “based on characters created by Mel Brooks” that opens on a “star field.” Now, a new report confirms what everyone suspected: it’s a Spaceballs…
Lees meerJust months away from being banned in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be putting some salt in TikTok’s wound. The agency has issued a bizarre message about referring a complaint about the social media app to the Department of…
Lees meerCall center employees have notoriously unpleasant jobs. They field questions from disgruntled customers all day long and can only respond with corporate-mandated jargon. Many expect AI will one day replace these customer service jobs, but for now, s…
Lees meerTwo NASA astronauts won’t be returning back from the International Space Station (ISS) for an additional four days, the latest in a series of delays that has marred the Starliner program for years.Read more...
Lees meerA team of deep sea scientists has made one mother of a find. In recent research, they detail the discovery of a female squid performing an unusual behavior for its kind: protecting and carrying around a clutch of giant eggs. The mama squid likely be…
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