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Former president Donald Trump became convicted felon Donald Trump on Thursday after he was found guilty on 34 criminal counts in his New York hush money trial. And while Trump won't be sentenced until July, large section...

The series that started Star Trek's streaming era came to an end this week, but as ever with the franchise's current moment, all eyes are already on what's next. But Starfleet Academy, the next new Trek show, won't actua...

May was a loaded month with Apple and Google both releasing products. Project Astra was definitely the most interesting thing we saw at an otherwise boring Google I/O. Apple also dropped its latest iPad Pros with the all...

OpenAI said that it stopped five covert influence operations that used its AI models for deceptive activities across the internet. These operations, which OpenAI shutdown between 2023 and 2024, originated from Russia, Ch...

After a big month for spacey goodness in May, Lego is bringing things back down to earth for its June releases--or back down to Middle-earth in particular, with the standout release of its next Lord of the Rings set, Bar...

The United States notoriously makes tax filing stressful and expensive thanks to greed, the tax lobby and the idea that basically nothing should be free (fun stuff!). However, there's a little glimmer of hope, as the IRS...

Twitch signed up cyberbullying experts, web researchers and community members back in 2020 to form the Safety Advisory Council. The review board was formed to help it draft new policies, develop products that improve saf...

Liz Reid, the Head of Google Search, has admitted that the company's search engine has returned some "odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews" after they rolled out to everyone in the US. The executive published an exp...

When in doubt, add a little Giancarlo Esposito to your cast--even better if you can get him to play a villain. The Mandalorian's Moff Gideon is heading to a different Disney project to play another bad guy, this time (as...

June is here, and it's bringing tons of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books for summer reading. They're full of star-crossed couples, deep-space bounty hunters, intergalactic art thieves, and passengers on a magical tr...

When you think of the 20-year-old social network that is Facebook, its popularity among "young adults" is probably not what comes to mind. Naturally, Meta wants to change that and the company is once again telling the wo...

Concept "can be applied to any panel type technology without a backlight."

If you're in and around the United Kingdom next weekend, we're incredibly jealous. Vice Press is hosting its annual Open House pop culture convention on June 8 in Sheffield featuring "some of the UK's best artists, desig...

He's thick, he's green, he's saving the galaxy from here to Tatooine! Yes, that's right. Kit Fisto has finally gotten his very own Hot Toys figure. And "hot" is the correct word here, right? Those eyes? Those tentacles? ...

The Tribeca Film Festival will debut five short films made by AI, as detailed by The Hollywood Reporter . The shorts will use OpenAI's Sora model, which transforms text inputs into create video clips . This is the first ...

Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Zack Snyder may be going from "This is Sparta!" to "This is streaming!" The popular filmmakeris reportedly in talks to executive producer and direct a new series set before the events of his first blockbuster, 300.

Tesla is having more seat belt problems. The company is recalling more than 125,000 Models S, X, 3, and Y because their seat belt warnings aren't lighting up and chiming like they're supposed to, the National Highway Tra...

It's Friday, which means it's time for another curated roundup of the week's best tech deals. This week's selection is highlighted by a new low on Apple's entry-level iPad, which is down to $300 at Amazon with an on-page...

Former Activision studio Toys for Bob just announced a partnership with Xbox to release its first game after spinning off as an independent entity. The company, which developed recent entries in the Spyro the Dragon and ...

A female stingray that was discovered to be pregnant, despite not sharing space with a male stingray in at least eight years, has a reproductive disease according to the Aquarium and Shark Lab in Henderson, North Carolin...

May showers bring June flowers and also, lots of streaming content. 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 favori...