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We’ve heard a lot of things about a sequel to Tim Burton’s beloved 1988 movie Beetlejuice, with most of it being some variation of “not happening.” Even Burton himself said he doubted the film would ever get made nack in 2019, and former scriptwriter Seth Grahame-Smith said he was finished with the project in 2021.…Read more...

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Andy Samberg’s Indiana Jones parody Digman! becomes a Brooklyn 99 reunion. Plus, check out creepy trailers for The Tank and The Resurrection of Charles Manson, as well as a new trailer for Yellowjackets’s second season. Spoilers get!

While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird. On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like messages.Read more...

Gone are the days of shimmery plastic CDs and chunky jewel cases, the past is making a comeback in a back way. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revealed in its annual revenue report that vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales for the first time since 1987.

Ben Riggs is a D&D historian and author of the book Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons.Read more...

Police charged twenty-three additional people with domestic terrorism felonies in Atlanta, Georgia this week, after arresting dozens in alleged association with ongoing protests against the construction of a planned police training facility. The reasoning for these new, hefty charges: dirty shoes, according to a…Read more...

The sudden explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other large language models has led to renewed attention on artificial intelligence that’s capable of mimicking speech, especially for well-known figures. It has left some spectators fearful of a rise in deepfake-fueled misinformation, copyright chaos, or possibly even the…Read more...

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The climactic season one finale of The Last of Us, where we’ll find out the this current arc’s fates for Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) is nearly upon us. But it’s not quite the end before we have to wait for season two.Read more...

During the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Bob Iger participated in a Q&A and was asked about his notable acquisitions during his previous term as Disney’s CEO. On the current slate of Marvel and Star Wars projects, Iger discussed that the franchises future are always on his mind, “I think a…Read more...

Like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back’s 40th anniversaries before it, Return of the Jedi is celebrating its landmark year in style with its own From a Certain Point of View collection—and the authors include some familiar Star Wars faces, some new ones, and perhaps of most interest to us, a co-founder of io9!

Turns out getting your head popped like a grape professionally is relaxing, actually. On Hot Ones Pedro Pascal broke down the one of the most iconic but traumatizing for the audience scenes in Game of Thrones, Oberyn Martell’s death at the hands of Gregor Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) during the The Viper vs. The…Read more...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now advising people to get screened for hepatitis B at least once in their lives. Though the infection can be managed with antivirals and prevented with a highly effective childhood vaccine, many Americans today are still living with chronic hepatitis B, which can…Read more...

It’s a controversial take, but sometimes I think Microsoft Edge is my favorite browser. I like the PDF viewer and Edge’s built-in “read-aloud” capability. And coming soon, Edge will be able to upscale low-resolution YouTube videos, like scrapes of old episodes of MTV’s Real World.

A Norfolk Southern train traveling in Calhoun County, Alabama derailed early Thursday morning. Thirty-seven train cars jumped off the tracks around 6:50 a.m. ET, according to local news reports.

We’re less than a month away from there being not one, but two Super Mario Bros. movies in existence. The Super Mario Bros. Movie opens on April 5 and comes from not only game creator Shigeru Miyamoto but also the minds behind Minions. Its latest trailer is here, and it’s wild.

Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk is adding one more title to his resume: town owner. The multi-billionaire is reportedly working on building his own “utopia” in Texas and plans to name it Snailbrook.Read more...

Say cheese: a newly deployed Starlink V2 satellite unknowingly posed for an orbital snapshot captured by a satellite imaging company. The photo revealed the new look of the miniature satellites in action, which SpaceX is hoping will increase the broadband capacity of its internet constellation.

Star Trek loves itself a nebula. It loves itself a starship that gets stuck inside a nebula. When that nebula is actually a living being? It’s downright giddy. This week’s Star Trek: Picard not only did all three, it used that classic premise to give all its characters a choice: come together or crack under the…Read more...

Japan’s H3 rocket failed to reach orbit on Monday, so instead of celebrating the debut of a flagship launch vehicle, Japan’s space agency is scrambling to understand what went wrong and what it means for Japanese space policy going forward. There’s also a backlash afoot, with a former astronaut rightly asking why a…Read more...

On Thursday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a gaggle of Democrats introduced a new bill that would cap insulin drug prices to just $20 per vial no matter which company is making it.Read more...

James Gunn and Peter Safran are rebooting the DC Entertainment universe, but not all the projects announced before their arrival are dead. Case in point, Batman: Caped Crusader—the much-anticipated animated series from beloved Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Bruce Timm, The Batman movie director Matt Reeves,…Read more...

In the upcoming second season of Disney+ and Marvel Studios What if...? we’ll be getting an episode that follows the trajectory of the Tesseract had it crashed in America before it’s colonization.Read more...

Employees of one of the largest LGBTQ+ nonprofits in the country—The Trevor Project—are facing abuse from the Far Right, and they claim that the organization is not properly supporting its crisis hotline staff.

Discord isn’t new to artificial intelligence, but it’s certainly making a statement about its commitment to it in its latest blog post. The company has declared its chat app the “place for AI with friends.” Indeed, if you want to bring a seemingly-sentient AI chatbot into a conversation with your favorite online pals,…Read more...

We may some day be able to produce power from thin air—all thanks to bacteria living in dirt. Microbiologists at Australia’s Monash University have identified an enzyme within a bacteria found in soil that can produce electricity using nothing but hydrogen from the atmosphere.

To most humans, a fruit fly larva doesn’t look like much: a pale, wriggling, rice grain-shaped maggot, just a few millimeters in length. Yet, in their own way, fly larvae lead rich and interesting lives full of sensory inputs, social behaviors, and learning. If you’ve ever doubted that a lot goes on inside a maggot’s…Read more...

Sure, Chainsaw Man’s Denji gets chainsaws for arms and a head in his unholy pact with a demon. But what if you were simply a samurai with a big-ass chainsaw? Hidari has the answer, and the answer is: pretty sick.

There’s no shortage of nasty germs in the world that can make us sick. The most common ones tend to be those passed on from person to person through methods such as respiratory droplets and aerosols, fecal-oral contamination (touching traces of poo from someone’s unwashed hands), or even sex. But there are other…Read more...

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Apple Music already has a selection of classical music for all the folks still hung up on the melodies of Beethoven or Bach, but the app offers little for any music lovers looking to engage in any new compositions in the long-form, classical style. Well, after about two years of work, Apple’s finally got the answer…Read more...

It’s been more than 50 years since astronauts first left their dusty footprints on the lunar surface, but humanity is finally going back to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. A lot has changed since the days of Apollo, which will likely be reflected in the new suits donned by those making the trip to the Moon…Read more...

It’s official: One of the new towers at the Vogtle power plant has started splitting atoms. The step brings the troubled plant in Georgia, which is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, closer to providing an enormous amount of carbon-free power to the grid.

Multiverses are all the rage in superhero movies nowadays, but they can be a tough idea for non-nerds to wrap their heads around. Non-nerds like, say, Michael Shannon, who played the Superman villain General Zod in 2013's Man of Steel. So when Warner Bros. asked him to reprise his role in The Flash movie, his response…Read more...

In a witch hunt to out gay priests, a conservative Catholic nonprofit in Denver has poured $4 million into buying data it claims is primarily sourced from Grindr and other gay dating apps, according to the Washington Post.Read more...

Lawyers representing FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried announced on Wednesday that his October trial might need to be delayed. The lawyers said they were still waiting for important documents to be handed over and claimed the hold-up could hinder their ability to review the evidence and create a proper defense.Read more...

There was a time when Star Trek’s utopian future was meant to show people had grown beyond conflict and profanity, but as the franchise has been reborn in the streaming age and more mature material has become common, the creatives behind it have come to accept that, well: the occasional f-bomb is only logical.Read more...

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In a classic “whoopsie” situation, a health data breach affecting members of the US House of Representatives and their staff exposed social security numbers, names of family members, emails, phone numbers, and home addresses, which are now for sale on the dark web. Senators and their staff were also affected, but…Read more...

Giancarlo Esposito, notorious for taking on bad guy roles, spoke to Star Wars Insider about his return to Star Wars via the Imperial security officer, Grand Moff Gideon. Although at the end of season two the Darksaber had been taken from him, Gideon still, even in custody, remains a potential threat to Din Djarin…Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration has fitted dozens of airports nationwide with new software to prevent, what it calls, “wrong-surface landings,” where inbound planes crash into aircrafts waiting on taxiways.

Meta’s Oversight Board is asking for guidance on how to treat the Arabic word “shaheed” on the company’s various social media platforms. The word is routinely flagged as terrorist-related content. Shaheed, which means “martyr,” accounts for more content removals under the company’s Community Standards than any other…Read more...

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Those pushing for AI regulation have a strange new ally. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest pro-business lobbying group in the country, released a report on generative artificial intelligence Thursday, calling on lawmakers to create some sort of regulation around the ballooning technology.

Sam Raimi wants to do a second Drag Me to Hell. Disney is giving us another new look at Little Mermaid at the Oscars this weekend. Meet the heroes of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves in a new featurette. Plus, what’s coming on The Flash. Spoilers go!

If you’re trying to recreate the big screen movie experience at home, a projector is the only way to go. But while they’re much cheaper than any TVs approaching 100-inches in size, they’re by no means cheap, usually costing several thousands of dollars for a 4K picture and enough brightness to be used during the day.…Read more...

Roku’s making its own TVs, and they’re available to buy starting today. The Roku Select and Roku Plus TVs follow the initial announcement at CES 2023 that the company would be getting into manufacturing its own displays, perhaps as a response to how many TVs come with streaming capabilities built-in these days, or to…Read more...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pursuit of Google reached a new milestone this week after the company announced that its AI-powered Bing search engine had surpassed 100 million daily active users.Read more...