Long before Edgar Wright’s The Running Man hits theaters this week, the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz had been thinking about making it. He read the original 1982 novel by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman) as a boy and excitedly went to theaters in 1987 to see the film version, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wright enjoyed the adaptation but was a little let down by just how different it was from the novel.
Years later, after he’d become a successful…
Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in the world. But based on his posts on X, the billionaire has never appeared more detached from humanity. And after one high-profile author pointed out that fact over the weekend, Musk now seems determined to prove that he’s a real human person with real human interests.
It all started in the early morning hours of Saturday when, at 3:20 a.m. Central Time, Musk shared a video with his followers on X. “Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says ‘I…
Marc Andreessen, pivotal co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, appears to have run afoul of the internet’s tech crowd after criticizing the Pope over the weekend.
Andreessen, a self-avowed “techno-optimist,” has made it very clear that he doesn’t really believe in any sort of regulatory or ethical guardrails for technological development (he has characterized such efforts as being part of a “mass demoralization campaign” against tech that is based on…
As Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to reopen the government on Monday night, helping to pass a budget criticized for “making the largest cut to Medicaid in American history to pay for the largest tax break for billionaires in American history,” those billionaires’ preferred mode of travel was in the midst of a major setback: they’re reportedly banned at 12 major airports.
On Sunday, Ed Bolen president and CEO of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), which is a…
On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering a tsunami that barreled across the Pacific and killed 159 people on the island of Hawaii. In the aftermath of this catastrophe, the U.S. tsunami warning system was born.
Nearly 80 years later, this life-saving network of seismic and sea-level monitoring stations is crumbling. Overseen by NOAA, the stations rely on federal funding that the Trump administration slashed this year. As a result,…
The animated DC Studios world gets cuter and more action-packed as Bat-Fam continues the adventures of Damien Wayne (Yonas Kibreab) as Little Batman from Merry Little Batman.
io9 sat down with Mike Roth, executive producer and showrunner of DC Studios and WB Animation’s release Bat-Fam. Now streaming on Prime Video, the series picks up on the entertaining superheroic family antics at Wayne Manor with Damien and Bruce Wayne (Luke Wilson), along with new friends and foes.
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Five years ago today, the Xbox Series X sought to reimagine what the term “Xbox” even was. Back then, the big, black, boxy console promised players they could get peak performance for couch-based gaming for the low price of $500. In 2025, that console with the optical drive now costs $150 more than it did in 2020, and it has been eclipsed by the latest gaming-ready PC chips many times over.
Microsoft’s Game Pass model, which rose along with the Series X to become the best deal in…
Several European countries are investigating whether Chinese-made electric buses could be remotely deactivated, amid growing national security concerns over China-built infrastructure across the continent.
Norway, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are reportedly worried about what they are calling a potential “security loophole” in electric buses made by Chinese manufacturer Yutong. The Zhengzhou-based company is the world’s largest manufacturer of buses by sales volume.
The probes…
It appears that Neom—Saudi Arabia’s hugely expensive, architecturally bizarre urban development project—is floundering and close to collapse. A new report from the Financial Times cites high-level sources within the project to paint a picture of dysfunction and failure at the heart of the quixotic effort.
Neom was envisioned as a vast series of fantastical urban developments spread across the coast of the Red Sea. At the center of the project is The Line—a proposed 105-mile-long…
When you’ve created shows as successful and iconic as Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, there’s going to be incredible pressure for your next thing. But, with Pluribus, Vince Gilligan not only lives up to that promise, he might surpass it. The first two episodes of his incredible new sci-fi show are currently on Apple TV+, and to help spread the word, he’s recruited a few old friends.
On Pluribus, most people on Earth have been brainwashed through a delightfully devious series of…
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