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Last night James Gunn casually tweeted the shocking news that, just months after it was announced that Henry Cavill’s Superman was back in action, he now... isn’t. The hierarchy of power changing in the DC Universe, however, doesn’t mean one thing some fans are hoping: that the lack of Cavill’s DC return could mean a…Read more...

The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday it took down 48 internet domains and charged six people who allegedly offered cyberattack-for-hire services. The defendants are each charged with allegedly offering booter services and operating at least one website that offered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…Read more...

A powerful storm system that charged through the Western and Southern United States this week has left a particularly aggressive trail of destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi. At least three people are dead as the storm makes its way towards the East Coast. More than 50 tornadoes were reported across Oklahoma,…Read more...

Colorado wants to phase out gas-powered cars by 2050, but unlike trendsetting California, which announced that no new gas-powered car be sold there by 2035, Colorado wants more EVs on the road without a similar ban.Read more...

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A team of physicists determined that enigmatic ‘antinuclei’ can travel across the universe without being absorbed by the interstellar medium. The finding suggests we may be able to identify antimatter that is produced by dark matter in deep space.Read more...

Another year’s end is nearly upon us—we’ve almost made it to the next 12 months of trials and tribulations! But for now, the io9 staff is rejoicing at mostly getting through the last 12 months in one piece, thanks to a few of our favorite new characters of the year. Here’s who we want to thank for getting us through…Read more...

Although the latest film in the Terminator franchise, 2019's Dark Fate, appears to have recouped its $185 million budget, it didn’t exactly light the world on fire. Producer James Cameron, who originated the franchise and was heavily involved with the film, believes he knows why the movie bombed, and it’s because it…Read more...

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A Russian spacewalk was called off on Wednesday after a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS) started leaking coolant in low Earth orbit. For one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on board, that could mean their ride back to Earth is suddenly gone.Read more...

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Earlier this year, we got the excellent news that Naoya Matsumoto’s fantastic superhero monster manga Kaiju No. 8 would be getting its own anime, and now we know there’s going to be a hell of a team behind it.Read more...

While newly named Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to explore new ways to flesh out leakers from companies, the U.S. government’s been busy closing out a court case against actual Twitter spies. Now, according to NBC, a former Twitter employee convicted of exposing dissidents’ personal information on behalf of the…Read more...

The crypto exchange Binance, perhaps the last major crypto exchange standing after the FTX debacle, experienced a wave of withdrawals by spooked investors earlier this week to the tune of nearly $3.7 billion, according to blockchain analytics firm Nansen.Read more...

The past year brought us inspiring advances in medical and health science, from new insights into devastating diseases like multiple sclerosis and lupus to innovative treatments for hair loss and obesity. While some of these breakthroughs, like transplanting pig organs into people, are still far from becoming…Read more...

The tenth Saw movie expands its cast. City Hunter is heading to Netflix. A new animated Winnie the Pooh movie is on the way. Superman & Lois is looking for a new Lex Luthor. Plus, get a look at the final season of The Flash. To me, my spoilers!

Despite the growing popularity of e-note digital notepads over the past few years, the Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s first E Ink device with stylus support for annotating documents and taking notes. But instead of pulling ahead of the competition with an e-note device packed full of innovative features and functionality,…Read more...

Matter, the smart home standard that promises to unify us all, continues its slow and steady release across platforms. Google is the next to announce compatibility for its Nest devices and Android phones.

Unlike a TV you more or less just hang on a wall and start enjoying, a projector requires a bit more attention to get perfectly positioned, calibrated, and focused before the movie starts. XGIMI’s new MoGo 2 Pro will make some of those steps invisible to the user, so setup is easier and less obtrusive.Read more...

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Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk is taking legal action against Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida student who tracks his private plane and publishes his flight information on social media under the @ElonJet banner.Read more...

Facebook and its parent company Meta are being sued for allegedly allowing toxic, violence-inciting content to flourish in communities in Ethiopia, where a civil war has left hundreds of thousands dead in recent years.Read more...

Remember that big Henry Cavill Superman comeback we were all ready for? The one teased at the end of Black Adam and then confirmed by Cavill himself? Well, it’s not happening. Instead, a new Superman film will focus on a younger version of the character, which James Gunn himself is writing.Read more...

The romantic dramedy between the gods will be heating up in season three of Lore Olympus. io9 chatted with creator and Eisner winner Rachel Smythe about what’s next for the popular Webtoon weekly appointment release that leads the charts in digital reading content and book lists.Read more...

By now you’ve likely heard the news that many of HBO Max’s original titles—including Westworld and The Nevers, as well as two more genre shows just added to that list, Raised by Wolves and The Time Traveler’s Wife—will soon be leaving the streamer and shifting elsewhere. Now we have a slightly better idea of where…Read more...

There’s been a lot of James Cameron in the headlines lately, all due to the fact that maybe the most James Cameron movie ever is about to hit theaters. Avatar: The Way of Water emphasizes so many things the filmmaker is known for, including cutting-edge special effects, high-stakes action, the idea that a sequel can…Read more...

The film that kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe and subsequently launched a million takes about comic book movies destroying cinema is getting a little respect. On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced the 25 movies that will be added to National Film Registry and Iron Man has been chosen as a…Read more...

While I’m not as voracious a reader as I used to be, novels were my first entry into fantasy and science fiction and remain my favorite way to escape into another world. This past year had an incredible array of wonderful books published, and I’m delighted to share some of my favorites from 2022.

There’s no getting around it. Elon Musk is a business genius. Show the man a box, and he’ll think outside of it. The CEO scared away all of Twitter’s advertisers, so lately, he’s been trying to come up with a way for his company to make money.Read more...

There’s a new bill coming to Congress to deal with crypto, and this one’s not pulling many punches on the entire crypto ecosystem.Read more...

Where Willow the movie ended, the fourth episode of the show began. Nockmaar. Castle of the evil Queen Bavmorda. The place where Willow, Sorsha, and Raziel saved Elora Danon and thought they’d put an end to evil. Well, evil is coming back in the person of a possessed young prince, and the castle is ready for it.Read more...

Whatever your feelings are about wielding an iPhone, you can’t ignore the fact that calling for help via satellite connection is a genuinely helpful safety feature, and one that we’re starting to think everyone should have. That’s because we keep hearing about people getting saved thanks to their new phone.

Meta’s Oversight Board restored a video of the Nigeria church attack on Wednesday showing motionless bodies on the floor, covered in blood. The video, shared on Instagram, had ultimately been removed because the hashtags the user added could be portrayed as glorifying the attack and minimizing the suffering the people…Read more...

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund provides a frightening preview of what’s to come in the wake of Roe v Wade being effectively struck down. It shows that infant and maternal health care outcomes, including mortality rates, were already worse in U.S. states where abortion services were more restricted prior to…Read more...

In America, your 18th birthday is marked (usually) by receiving the right to vote. In Hulu’s upcoming TV series Extraordinary, people receive a miscellaneous superpower—with the exception of Jen (Máiréad Tyers), who’s managed to make it to 25 without discovering what ability she received, if any. But this Britcom…Read more...

The tiny Hakuto-R lunar spacecraft and lander is currently en route to the Moon, but it managed to capture this stellar view of Earth, in what is an encouraging start to the private Japanese mission.Read more...

Gods will be killed on Prime Video. That’s where Kratos and Atreus, the stars of the popular God of War video game franchise, will soon hang their weapons as Sony and Amazon have announced a live-action TV show based on the series is on the way. The news was first teased back in March but now it’s official.

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission concluded with Orion’s immaculate splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Seemingly a billion years—and most assuredly a few billion dollars—in the making, the mission ended far too quickly for space junkies like me. But in those short few weeks, it managed to nail all its primary…Read more...

The covid-19 pandemic caused far more death and destruction in its first two years than official numbers indicate, a new study from the World Health Organization has found. The authors estimate that there were about 15 million excess deaths linked to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, with a likely majority of these…Read more...

New research finds Russian groups targeted former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social during the 2022 midterm elections. The report, conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, found that Russian groups have moved on from Facebook and Twitter, where they are largely blocked, to…Read more...

The success this year of powerful new generative artificial intelligence models like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, have laid the groundwork for a new era of AI tech set to explode even further in 2023. Google, though equipped with its own powerful (but definitely not sentient) LaMDA AI chatbot…Read more...

Fun fact: The Ghostface mask, best known as the headwear of whoever decided to kill people in the various Scream movies, was created several years before the first Scream debuted in 1996. So it’s entirely plausible that a multitude of people on a subway car would be wearing Ghostface masks on what I have to assume is…Read more...

YouTube wants you to stop being mean. As YouTube comments continue to serve as a place to harbor negativity and bad tempers, the platform is rolling out a way to let you know if your comment is too rude.

I have never been more quickly sold on anything in my life than watching Adam Driver pick up a sci-fi assault rifle, pointing it at a T.Rex, and opening fire.

Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey has not had it easy the past few weeks. After being hounded on the internet by mobs of Elon Musk fans wanting his blood for what’s been presented in the so-called “Twitter Files,” Dorsey finally came out late Tuesday not to apologize for banning former President Donald Trump,…Read more...

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania producer Stephen Broussard teases the stakes of the film. Warrior Nun is no more at Netflix. Plus, you’ll be waiting a while for Marvel to return to Echo. Spoilers get!

Prepare to level up at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023 with the opening of Super Nintendo World on February 17. The video game-inspired land finally makes its United States debut after the opening of the first Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan back in 2021, and in advance of the release of …Read more...

Twitter has banned @ElonJet, the popular bot account that tracked CEO Elon Musk’s plane, days after the account’s owner accused the social media platform of shadowbanning it.Read more...

ChatGPT, the machine-learning fueled chatbot, has been widely acclaimed for its ability to interact with users and generate “human-like” text. Since its launch by OpenAI on Nov. 30, more than a million people have signed up to use the program, marveling at its talent for spinning up short stories, rap lyrics,…Read more...

J.M. Smucker Co. has issued a warning against a small business in Minnesota that’s selling peanut butter and jelly sandwiches without a crust, according to a new report from the Star Tribune. The food giant alleges a crustless sandwich called Gallant Tiger infringes on the trademark protections of its Uncrustables…Read more...