Latest

The New Dune Movie Is Being Written By the Man Who Wrote Forrest Gump

But we don’t think that should worry you. Variety reports that Eric Roth, who won an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for Forrest Gump, has been hired to adapt the Frank Herbert novel Dune for director Denis Villeneuve. Roth also wrote The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Insider, Munich, Ali, and many, many more.…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 5

Want to Stop Your Internet Provider From Selling Your Browsing Data? It Ain’t Easy

This week, President Donald Trump signed the widely–criticized bill repealing FCC ISP privacy rules, which would have required internet service providers to get opt-in consent before selling customers’ web browsing history. The rules hadn’t actually gone into effect, but the bill’s passage was a wake-up call for American internet users, who suddenly realized: Wait, what…

Tech News Libby Watson Apr 5

I Drop-Kicked My Beautiful Superhero Son While Playing the First Four Story Missions in Injustice 2

Last week the rain was pouring, the streets were flooded, and I had zero desire to leave the comfort of my home. But the makers of Injustice 2 were offering an intimate demo, and by god I wanted to see what Supergirl looked like in DC’s best murderverse. I did get to see that (she…

io9 Alex Cranz Apr 5

A Healer Starts to Realize Her True Power in This Excerpt From Speculative Fiction Debut The City of Brass

S.A. Chakraborty’s debut fantasy novel, The City of Brass, isn’t out until November, but we have a sneak peek at the first chapter, as well as insight from the author about the magical world she created. It begins in 18th century Cairo, and follows a con artist who realizes her true powers after a mysterious…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Apr 5

Watch What Happens When Thousands of People Battle to Make Pixel Art at the Same Time

The world was given a slight reprieve from the unbearable antics of April Fools’ Day this year given the festivities fell on a Saturday. But Reddit also did its part to make April 1 a little more bearable with a collaborative art project that saw thousands of users painstakingly creating pixel art, one tile at…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Apr 5

Autotuned Singing Animals Absolutely Nailed the Duck Tales Theme Song

Animals electronically coerced into singing has been one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements. The internet is now packed full of countless songs performed by countless creatures, but few are as wonderful as these random autotuned animals singing the Duck Tales theme. Insane Cherry’s animal cover is so unbelievably perfect that you’ll wonder why the original…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Apr 5

The Director of Colossal Tells Us How He Made a Giant Monster Movie Feel So Human

The idea for Colossal sounds exactly that: “colossal.” A woman in the US can sometimes, when she’s drunk and in the right place, become a giant monster in Seoul, South Korea. Add to that Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway, and it sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. But that’s not what Colossal is at all. “I wrote…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 5

This Ancient Stellar Blob Could Change Our Understanding of How Galaxies Form

Only a billion or so years after the universe formed, a galaxy far more massive than our own and a fraction of the size blazed into existence. Just half a billion years later—less than the amount of time it took life to emerge and evolve into humans on Earth—the galaxy was a dead disc, no…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 5

Scientists Are Getting Closer to Understanding Where All the Antimatter Has Gone

You and me, we’re matter. Everyone you know is matter. Everything on Earth, spare a few particles, is matter. Most of the things in space are matter. But we don’t have convincing reasons why there should be so much more matter than antimatter. So where’s all the antimatter? A team of European scientists have taken…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 5

Agents of SHIELD Has the Most Chilling Version of Hydra—One That Feels Eerily Real

Agents of SHIELD returned last night with an episode that takes place entirely within the Hydra-dominated simulation in the Framework. And even though everything we see is “fake,” it’s allowed the show to reflect our world in the way only dystopia can. Last night’s episode wasn’t exactly subtle in its points, but sometimes subtlety is…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Apr 5

MST3K‘s New Villain Felicia Day Explains How a Simple Act of Evil Got Her the Role

Felicia Day was famously mistreated by Dr. Horrible, but now the lab coat is on the other back. As Kinga Forrester, the new Mad tormenting Jonah and the ‘Bots on the upcoming Mystery Science Theater 3000, it’s her turn to be evil—and not just on-screen. Here, Day relates her serious bad movie cred and explains the…

Television Rob Bricken Apr 5

Steve Rogers Just Made the First Major Move of Secret Empire

The die is cast. After months of working covertly to bring his plans as an Agent of Hydra to fruition, Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, has made his first big step toward the incoming Secret Empire event. And even though we’ve been waiting for this to happen, it’s a pretty surprising move nonetheless. Today’s…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Apr 5

Here Are All the Jobs the Patent Office Can’t Fill Because of Trump’s Stupid Hiring Freeze

Donald Trump would like to be known as the Jobs President. But one of his first actions after taking office was to institute a federal hiring freeze. That means thousands of jobs are being left vacant indefinitely until the administration passes a budget that decimates federal jobs for good. Gizmodo has filed over a dozen…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 5

Dude Turns His Weird Cat’s Meow Into a Sick Electro Track

“Cat music” is a funny YouTube search, filled with lullabies for kittens and clips of cats singing. But what happens when you take a cat’s meow, cut it up, and turn it into a club banger? Great things, my friend. Great things. YouTube team Fred V & Grafix did just that in a new video…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes Apr 5

Batman and Harley Quinn Team Up to Take Down Poison Ivy in Animated Movie Featurette

The Caped Crusader and Mister J’s number-one gal are teaming up to stop a plantocalypse in the upcoming animated film, Batman and Harley Quinn. Here’s the first look at what’s in store, including a brand-new voice for Harley. In the upcoming animated film, Batman and Nightwing recruit Harley Quinn to try and take down Poison…

io9 Beth Elderkin Apr 5

Watch How a Beloved Spacecraft Will Die in Saturn’s Atmosphere

As if we already weren’t sad enough about Cassini’s imminent demise, NASA has now created a video so that we can watch what the spacecraft’s final moments will look like when it smashes into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15th. Over the last 13 years, NASA’s Cassini orbiter has conducted some of the most important science…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Apr 5

Motorola’s Terrible ‘Rap Video’ Is a Great Reminder of Its Irrelevance

Forty-four years ago this week, Motorola placed the first phone call from a mobile phone. That’s a genuinely big moment, and as someone who is glued to my smartphone for at least 18 hours a day, I’m very glad that happened. Unfortunately, Motorola decided to use that moment as a “hook” for a very bad…

Tech News Christina Warren Apr 5

This Plane With KFC Buckets for Wings Flies Remarkably Well

In the land of no wings, the KFC bucket is king. That’s the theory YouTube supergeek Peter Sripol set out to prove recently by building an RC plane with nothing but greasy KFC buckets for wings. And guess what: it worked. You’re probably thinking that a bucket-winged airplane that can actually fly is some sort…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes Apr 5

These Self-Learning Robot Arms Teach Each Other How to Pick Up Unfamiliar Objects

It’s all but certain that human workers in factories and fulfillment centers are a dying breed. The last nail in their coffin might be a new robotic arm from a company called RightHand Robotics that’s not only able to teach itself how to pick up objects it’s never handled before, but it can also share…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 5

Michael Bay Says There Are 14 Transformers Movies Already Written and My Eyes Are Not Ready

At CinemaCon last week, Michael Bay was asked if he was actually going to be leaving the Transformers franchise this time. He not only said that he’d like to do one more, but that there were already 14 stories ready to go in that universe. Speaking with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, Bay answered the question about…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Apr 5

The New Dune Movie Is Being Written By the Man Who Wrote Forrest Gump

Want to Stop Your Internet Provider From Selling Your Browsing Data? It Ain’t Easy

I Drop-Kicked My Beautiful Superhero Son While Playing the First Four Story Missions in Injustice 2

A Healer Starts to Realize Her True Power in This Excerpt From Speculative Fiction Debut The City of Brass

Watch What Happens When Thousands of People Battle to Make Pixel Art at the Same Time

Autotuned Singing Animals Absolutely Nailed the Duck Tales Theme Song

The Director of Colossal Tells Us How He Made a Giant Monster Movie Feel So Human

This Ancient Stellar Blob Could Change Our Understanding of How Galaxies Form

Scientists Are Getting Closer to Understanding Where All the Antimatter Has Gone

Agents of SHIELD Has the Most Chilling Version of Hydra—One That Feels Eerily Real

MST3K‘s New Villain Felicia Day Explains How a Simple Act of Evil Got Her the Role

Steve Rogers Just Made the First Major Move of Secret Empire

Here Are All the Jobs the Patent Office Can’t Fill Because of Trump’s Stupid Hiring Freeze

Dude Turns His Weird Cat’s Meow Into a Sick Electro Track

Batman and Harley Quinn Team Up to Take Down Poison Ivy in Animated Movie Featurette

Watch How a Beloved Spacecraft Will Die in Saturn’s Atmosphere

Motorola’s Terrible ‘Rap Video’ Is a Great Reminder of Its Irrelevance

This Plane With KFC Buckets for Wings Flies Remarkably Well

These Self-Learning Robot Arms Teach Each Other How to Pick Up Unfamiliar Objects

Michael Bay Says There Are 14 Transformers Movies Already Written and My Eyes Are Not Ready

Latest news

‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Is Still Just One Episode, Despite Being Called That

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

RFK Jr. Will Take on Joe Rogan for Podcaster Supremacy

The Spymaster’s Guide to the Secret Agencies of ‘Star Trek’

Uber Is Testing Driverless Volkswagen ID. Buzz Vans in Los Angeles

Cast Adrift, Meta Employees Have No Idea Who the ‘Token Legend’ Is Anymore

Microsoft Office 2024 and Windows 11 Pro Bundle Hits 76% Off, a Complete PC Setup for Less

You Can Add ‘Lamp That Folds Your Laundry’ to the List of Doomed Startups

Latest Reviews

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Let us help find what you are looking for...