Microsoft secretly rolled out a new feature into its Bing AI preview that lets users emulate certain famous people. It does a, let’s just say, “interesting” job at emulating some celebrities’ speech patterns. We also took a look at what it’s allowed to say on behalf of some extremely controversial or hateful figures.
Just before the weekend started, news broke that beloved character actor Clancy Brown would be joining The Penguin, WB’s TV spinoff of the now one-year-old The Batman.
After breaking the news earlier in the week that Jack Kesy was the new Hellboy for the upcoming film reboot The Crooked Man, Millennium Media has confirmed the addition of two more actors to the cast.
Just as 2022 was winding down, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish came rolling into theaters as an unexpected hit.
There’s pretty much nothing cooler than old computers and Rocky Bergen, a visual artist from Canada, has spent years creating paper replicas of them. From early Apple models to Ataris to Commodores and early IBM PCs, Bergen manages to work up visceral recreations of retro hardware that look almost exactly like the…
In Star Wars, you’re always wondering what’s happening off-screen. Where was Luke when this was happening? Did Rey know about this? Wouldn’t Yoda be around at this time?
Harrison Ford once famously told George Lucas of his Star Wars script, “You can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it!” Suffice to say, the franchise has wrangled with lovably, and not so lovably, weird dialogue since its earliest days.
Four years after Detective Pikachu proved that a live-action spin on Pokémon was viable, news of a sequel starring
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Crystalline” by Daniel H. Wilson.
