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U.S. Supreme Court justices may be many things, but they definitely aren’t social media experts. The justices roasted themselves during oral arguments Tuesday of a case against Google that could determine the fate of nearly all speech online. Tech companies and advocates fear a ruling against Google could…Read more...

The Hugo award-winning Science Fiction-focused Clarkesworld Magazine can receive over 12,000 submissions in just one year. Of course, that was before the proliferation of free online AI models that can write a dull, monotonous, though technically legible piece of fiction.Read more...

At the start of 2022, few films felt like as sure of a bet as Lightyear. It was a new film from Pixar, a company known for its high standards in terms of story, and was part of the Toy Story franchise, one of the most beloved animated series of all time. And yet, from the first day the film was announced, everyone was…Read more...

It’s time to start wondering what the Google Pixel Fold might be like when Google eventually announces it. Right now, Samsung is Google’s biggest hardware competitor in the Android space, and the South Korean company is also the far-and-away leader in the folding hardware category. So it’s not surprising that the…Read more...

Although blocking out a plane’s engine noise on a long flight is probably the best use-case scenario, there are good reasons to leave your pricey, $400+ ANC headphones at home when traveling. A better alternative might be Sony’s new WH-CH720N which bring excellent ANC to an incredibly lightweight pair of over-ear…Read more...

Project Veritas, the far-right activist group aimed at holding journalists and progressives accountable through deleterious means, has cut off its nose to spite its face. James O’Keefe, who founded Project Veritas in 2010 and served as CEO, has been removed from the group following concerns over how O’Keefe was…Read more...

The structure of superhero movie franchises sure has changed, hasn’t it? It’s easy to forget, but pre-2008, these tentpole blockbusters usually capped themselves at a trilogy of movies, whether they wanted to or not. Back then, a trilogy felt like a good number of films; not too little, not too much, and adequately…Read more...

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the Western World on Tuesday when he declared he will no longer participate in the New SMART nuclear treaty with the U.S. The withdrawal marks the last of the country’s nuclear arms control pact almost a year after it invaded Ukraine.Read more...

A diagonal line stretching from New Mexico to Massachusetts is set to effectively split the country in half this week. Aside from a narrow range in the middle of the divide, most places to the west and north of the split will face temperatures far below average along with intense winter storms, while states to the…Read more...

The recent Progress 82 coolant leak was caused by an “external impact” and not some kind of manufacturing defect, Roscosmos is now claiming. At the same time, the Russian space agency is still having to deal with the fallout from the Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak in December, with plans to launch the replacement vehicle…Read more...

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he gave employees one week to turn verification into a paid service. To many, the idea that anyone would pay for a blue check on Twitter seemed absurd, and even undermined the very idea of verification. The joke may be on us, it turns out. Meta just launched a paid verification…Read more...

We might have just gotten one Marvel movie—and its action figures aren’t even out yet—but Hasbro is already prepping its next plethora of plastic superheroes in the run up to the next MCU film. It’s the turn of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to get its Marvel Legends due, and Hasbro’s pushing the boat out.

On January 3, the Solar Orbiter spotted Mercury passing in front of the Sun. The transit of the small, dark orb puts the scale of our solar system into sharp relief.

Let’s face facts. The odds of Alden Ehrenreich returning to the role of Han Solo probably aren’t great. Solo: A Star Wars Story was successful, but not to the level of its Star Wars predecessors. And while appreciation for the movie has grown in the years since its release, you just get the sense that Lucasfilm is…Read more...

According to an ongoing study in the UK, the four-day workweek may be the key to success for companies and their employees. The world’s biggest four-day workweek trial included the participation of 61 British companies, some of whom now say they won’t return to the regular Monday through Friday work schedule.Read more...

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M3Gan, Get Out, The Conjuring movies, the Paranormal Activity franchise, so much more—Blumhouse Productions has proven itself a master of creating incredibly popular, while still comparatively low-budget, horror stories on the silver screen. Now the entertainment company has decided to see if it can do the same thing…Read more...

How many times has a game of basketball been thwarted by a ball that was too flat to bounce? An air pump with a properly sized needle isn’t something most people carry around with them all the time, so Wilson has been working to redesign the basketball with a prototype that’s covered in an intricate pattern of holes…Read more...

Blockchain investors in Japan rejoice. The Japanese subsidiary of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced that customers could begin withdrawing funds from their accounts beginning on Tuesday, after a months long freeze. FTX Japan customers are among the first to get their money back following the exchange’s global…Read more...

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The Cocaine Bear runs wild in a multitude of new Cocaine Bear clips. Could Apple TV+’s Neuromancer adaptation have found its star? Plus, Superman & Lois teases its Fortress of Solitude, and we’ve got a sneaky look at what’s coming in Attack on Titan’s final return. Spoilers, away!

With Elon Musk’s Twitter making an absolute mess with paid verification and Twitter Blue, rival Meta has stepped up to the plate with a similarly ludicrous plan to have users pay for the privilege of proving they are who they say they are on Facebook and Instagram. More than that, Meta is advertising those who pay…Read more...

The prize for the most disgusting use of ChatGPT yet goes to Vanderbilt University, which used the chatbot to generate an email to students about the Feb. 13 mass shooting at Michigan State University.Read more...

This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability for…Read more...

The Supreme Court’s ruling on a pair of ISIS terrorism cases this week will rest on the nine justices’ interpretation of 26 words written in 1996 that collectively have come to define the nature and scope of modern online expression. The ruling could fundamentally alter the types of content social companies are held…Read more...

Phone numbers are a finite resource. So when one goes out of a service, there’s a good chance telecom companies will reuse it for a new phone plan. That can be a big problem on WhatsApp. In some cases, if you get your hands on a phone number that was tied to an existing WhatsApp account, you can hijack it and assume…Read more...

Created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen, Apple TV+’s Hello Tomorrow! stars Billy Crudup as a 1950s traveling salesman peddling “Brightside Lunar Residences”—an idyllic suburban condo community enclosed under a dome on the moon. But all is not what it seems on this excellent series, which just dropped its first three…Read more...

With every single video that comes out for this film, I am more and more convinced that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is just an amalgamation of the most common pitfalls in any given D&D campaign. Is it as funny watching it on screen as it is when you’re playing it out with friends? That remains to be seen.…Read more...

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A lot was happening in 2020 so there’s a chance you may have missed something—like the fact the New York Times published a story basically saying aliens are real. The claim was based on a document stating that the government has found unexplained objects that were “not made on this earth.” You read that right.Read more...

Phase Five is in full effect with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Paul Rudd’s third time around as former criminal turned Avenger Scott Lang sees him, his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), and the whole Pym/Van Dyne family (Hope, Hank, and Janet, played by Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, and…Read more...

A new AI robotic arm was created to paint compelling artwork and is now coming to the forefront as a revolutionary entity. FRIDA (Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts) is a robotic arm created at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science and is the newest addition to the university’s art…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the latest toy news tickling our wallets. This week: Super7 goes back to Springfield for another wave of Simpsons Ultimates figures, Mirage joins Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts toyline, and here’s your chance to celebrate 30 years of Jurassic Park with, of…Read more...

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When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After a ceremony, his body will go into a hexagonal vessel with an internal structure similar to that of a honeycomb, where…Read more...

Instagram’s meme makers are taking their talents to a surprising place: the stage. But more so than the static images they post, their shows resemble stand-up comedy.Read more...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed.

Down the road, if The Last of Us is lucky enough to get any acting award nominations, clips from this episode will explain why. The sixth episode of The Last of Us, titled “Kin,” saw Joel and Ellie’s trek across the United States reach a crossroads. The pair were forced to deal with things they’ve been hiding and make…Read more...

Now that Pooh: Blood & Honey is slashing it up in theaters, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield has spoken previously about his desire to keep the “kids characters as slasher villains” train a-going. Along with producing a horror flick focused on Bambi that’s currently in production and cooking up ideas for a Peter Pan…Read more...

Now that we know who’ll headline the first part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC universe, the question (and speculation) has naturally pivoted to who can show up in what movie. Superhero fans have been trained for over a decade to expect more than just the title characters in a film or show, and the eclectic…Read more...

Two months into 2023, and Marvel Season has returned, folks! Coming up to the stage as the first salvo of MCU content for the year is a surprise entry: Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania. Originally set for 2022 before being kicked to summer 2023 and then swapping places with The Marvels’ February 2023 release date …Read more...

Everything Everywhere All at Once’s recognition during awards season has been nothing short of big. Between its GLAAD nomination, and pair of twins during the Golden Globes, the film seems poised to have some kind of triumph when the Oscars roll around, particularly since it 11 nominations,

Ever since the first trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves revealed itself in its goofy, sometimes quippy glory, there’s been a question about if the marketing was hiding some meta elements. While recent TTRPG hits like Critical Role have played things straight, being meta is still fairly common when…Read more...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just forced Tesla to recall some 362,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to a software problem with its “Full Self Driving” feature. Regulators say the feature could lead to crashes. Though a novel reason for an automotive recall, this is far from the first time the electric…Read more...

Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes series is one of the most well known comic strips around. Even though it went out of publication in 1995 and Watterson retired (mostly), the strip has managed to live on thanks to being frequently reprinted consistently over the decades.

Before Charlie Cox fought dudes in hallways and made frequent blind jokes in the MCU, 2003's Daredevil movie hung over Matt Murdock for years. The Ben Affleck-led film could probably be considered a cult classic these days in some respects, but it doesn’t really come up in conversation, unless someone wants to say…Read more...

Big Red is coming back to theaters. Deadline confirmed that a new Hellboy movie, subtitled The Crooked Man, is about to start production. Earlier in the week, rumors began swirling around about its existence courtesy of Discussing Film, but distributor Millennium (which bought the film rights for Hellboy in 2018)…Read more...

People living in and near East Palestine, Ohio have been suffering with more than two weeks of uncertainty after a train derailed there, releasing toxic chemicals including vinyl chloride. The disaster has ignited a national interest in disaster management and response, including in railroad safety in transporting…Read more...

Star Wars has always been a commercial brand from the start, but you could really start to feel that over the last few years. Between spinoffs focused on Boba Fett and Obi-Wan, the incoming one for Ahsoka Tano, and a spinoff originally meant for Cara Dune, the franchise has an obsession with shedding as much light on…Read more...

Fox News needs to present a specific face to its audience. It’s one of grievance and hurt, of a changing world that is changing too damn fast. Though all too often, the entire network strays into the absurd, whether it’s guests going on about “climate vaccines” or its hosts like Tucker Carlson going off about being “…Read more...