The Best Gadgets of December 2025
The time for gift-giving is over. Now, all that’s left is the few days until New Year’s revelries and the…
Behold ‘Dracula’s Chivito,’ the Largest Planet Nursery Astronomers Have Ever Seen
Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and…
2025 Was the Year AI Slopified All Our Gadgets
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage at the company’s big, splashy I/O developer conference this summer, we all…
Ryan Coogler Drops More Hints About His ‘X-Files’ Reboot
The Duffer brothers’ Talisman adaptation is no more. Get another new look at Daisy Ridley’s zombie movie, We Bury the Dead. Plus,…
Everybody’s Getting In on the Canvas TV Craze
No. A screen will never replicate the glory of a physical piece of art you can hang on your wall.…
Badlands’ Is Coming Home Next Week
It’s been a great year for Predator, between the animated epic Killer of Killers and Badlands‘s team-up action making it one of our…
As Measles Cases Top 2,000, the U.S. Is on Brink of Losing Its Elimination Status
2025 has proven to be a nightmare year for measles, with the U.S. reaching a toll not seen in decades.…
io9’s Top 100 Stories of 2025
Now 2025 is in its twilight, but as we’ve spent all of December reflecting on the year that was, it’s…
Artist Behind Viral ‘Beast Jesus’ Restoration Dies at 94
Cecilia Giménez Zueco—the woman behind Beast Jesus, the idiosyncratic attempt at art restoration that became an internet sensation in mid-2012—has…
AI Ruined Job Applications, So People Are Resorting to Dating Apps to Find Work
In a struggling job market where the scant job opportunities that do get posted use dubious AI tools to screen…
