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Patty Jenkins has been in the news a lot over the last few months. First with the removal of her Star Wars movie, Rogue Squadron, from Disney’s schedule, and then the even more shocking news that Wonder Woman 3 had been canceled by DC.Read more...

If you’re one of the nearly 5,000 backers of the 2017 smash-hit board game Gloomhaven—or one of the more than 83,000 backers of its sequel, Frosthaven—you should probably be aware that the tabletop board game is moving to, uh, a different table, I guess. Game designer Isaac Childres has announced Gloomhaven will soon…Read more...

The legendary figurehead of Looney Tunes, the one and only Bugs Bunny, just celebrated 80 years—and he’s just received his first Emmy. Bugs’ current voice performer, Filipino Canadian and proud animation fanboy Eric Bauza, won the Children’s and Family Emmy Award for “Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated…Read more...

The latest trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is jam-packed with Spider-People—but don’t worry, there are more. In addition to the awesome, emotional trailer for the highly anticipated sequel, Sony released a few concept images of other characters coming to the multiverse who are not in the trailer, and…Read more...

A large winter storm hit the western U.S. this weekend and is expected to continue its icy tirade across the rest of the nation, bringing blizzards, tornadoes, and flooding along with it.

If odd digital interpretations of classic movie posters and strangely sexual selfie photo collages on Instagram still haven’t convinced you of generative artificial intelligence’s merits, maybe saving a few bucks will. That’s part of the idea behind a new ChatGPT chatbot from the company DoNotPay, which it says can…Read more...

After traveling more than 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) on an historic journey to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday following its near-perfect test flight.Read more...

Researchers working with a microphone aboard the Perseverance rover have managed to record sounds of a passing dust devil. The audio data was enough for them to determine the physical characteristics of the Martian whirlwind, which crossed right over the NASA rover.Read more...

If you watched The Nevers, HBO’s 2021 drama about women in Victorian London who suddenly manifest superpowers, there’s likely part of you still wondering if we’d ever get the promised second half of the season—with, like, some follow-through all the batshit stuff that happened in the finale. The answer is here, and…Read more...

“Does this spark joy?” So asked the famed Japanese consultant Marie Kondo as a way of thinking about decluttering crowded living spaces. The best way to know what “sparks joy,” Kondo said, is to feel the item in your hand, and then know whether you feel uplifted just by that simple act.Read more...

Apple Watch and iPhone users, it’s update day. The iOS 16.2 update is currently rolling out to the iPhone 14 and all other compatible devices. The update includes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud data like Notes and Photos, just as Apple teased at WWDC earlier in the year. Apple says the encryption applies to 23…Read more...

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Airbnb announced on Tuesday it has removed nearly 4,000 accounts globally from its platform this year, after finding those users had violated its non-discrimination policy. The report was published by Project Lighthouse, an initiative Airbnb launched in 2020, and found that the number of accounts removed decreased…Read more...

The new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer is here, and Miles Morales’ multiverse is about to get so much bigger and more dangerous. But what secrets can we find alongside many, many, many Spider-People in this trailer? Let’s take a closer look.Read more...

As more and more states across the country pile on to ban TikTok from state-owned devices, Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida along with Republican Representative Mike Gallagher from Wisconsin and Democrat Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois have taken the move to the next level by proposing a…Read more...

Our phones are now pretty essential when it comes to getting through everyday life—so it can be disconcerting when one of these ever-present pocket companions refuses to charge up as normal. It’s a common problem, and it’s one that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. But before you turn your handset over to the…Read more...

An experimental mRNA cancer-fighting vaccine jointly developed by Moderna and Merck has reportedly succeeded in a Phase II trial. According to the companies, melanoma survivors who received the vaccine in combination with immunotherapy were 44% less likely to have their cancer return or to die than those who only took…Read more...

Meta is introducing a new counter-terrorism tool. The news comes as the company will become chair of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)’s Operating Board next month. The GIFCT was founded by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017 and has since become a non-governmental organization (NGO)…Read more...

Experience your own Amblin cinematic adventure at the Great Movie Escape at Universal Orlando Resort. io9 was invited to try out the new interactive escape rooms inspired by Jurassic World and Back to the Future at CityWalk and chat with Universal Creative about its collaboration with two of Universal Pictures’…Read more...

Twitter may be the one place online where you might be seeing fewer ads in the future—assuming you cough up $8 a month. Elon Musk tweeted late Monday that Twitter Blue subscribers “will have half the number of ads,” and said the company will offer an even more expensive tier for the site that’s totally ad-free in…Read more...

Climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic into an almost unrecognizable new region, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card has found.

ThinkOrbital has big plans for low Earth orbit, designing an orbital platform that could be used to manufacture products in space, as well as remove and recycle space debris.Read more...

Although foggy lenses have been plaguing glasses wearers for as long as glasses have existed, they happen more frequently to those still masking. Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland may have finally come up with a permanent solution to the problem that works whether someone’s wearing a mask, or even if they’ve…Read more...

The House Financial Services Committee began one of its most dramatic hearings in recent memory Tuesday, while its main subject, disgraced crypto exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sat behind bars in a cell nearly 1,000 miles away.Read more...

io9 added “best rewatches” to our year-end coverage during the height of the pandemic—a time when new movies and TV felt mighty scarce. With Hollywood back in full swing, there’s now plenty of new content to consume, but that doesn’t mean we don’t find ourselves sneaking back into the past on occasion.

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday morning that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction, a vaunted goal in humankind’s quest for a reliable, zero-carbon energy source.

We thought we were ready, but after watching this trailer, we may not be. Sony just released the next trailer for the highly anticipated follow-up to its Oscar-winning, all-time magnificent superhero movie and we are freaking out over how awesome it looks. We’re talking about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the…Read more...

Few movies in history have come to theaters with the weight and expectations of Avatar: The Way of Water. Its director, James Cameron, has made four narrative sequels in his career and two of those, Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, are inarguably two of the best sequels of all-time. Avatar, though, is on a whole…Read more...

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, announced it’s pausing withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin following a spike in user activity that resulted in $1.9 billion in withdrawals in the last day. That spike, according to CoinDesk, comes amid possible red flags revealed in its recent proof-of-reserve report.

Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council on Monday, effectively dissolving the volunteer group of about 100 people that was responsible for moderating content including hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, and self-harm, among others, according to the archived version of the Trust and Safety page.Read more...

If you missed Nanny during its theatrical run, here’s another chance to catch Nikyatu Jusu’s haunting tale of an immigrant mother struggling with the tough but necessary choices she’s had to make in her life. The first horror movie to win Sundance’s coveted Grand Jury Prize arrives on Prime Video this week, and io9…Read more...

Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.Looking for a wholesome gift for a science-loving kid (or nerdy adult) in your life? We’ve got you covered with educational kits, desktop toys, books, and fun projects. Prices here range from $10 to $227, so there are options for every budget. Enjoy!Read more...

The fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons is nearly 50 years old, but it’s experiencing the biggest boom in its history, with millions of old players returning to the table, and new ones picking up polyhedral dice for the very first time. That means lots of new products—both from the game’s publisher, …Read more...

Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.It never hurts to be prepared. And with climate disasters only becoming more common, it’s wise to stock up on emergency gadgets and tools, like solar-powered phone chargers and first aid kits. These may not be the most jolly gifts you give this holiday, but they’ll definitely be useful—and they might even end up…Read more...

After a ten-year hiatus from feature films, Hayao Miyazaki is returning to the director’s chair with How Do You Live. Miyazaki has “retired” and then returned to direct another film many times over the past thirty years. Thank goodness he did, as he announced his first retirement a year before he decided to make …Read more...

As more evidence comes to light about the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s darling two-headed child—one face being the crypto exchange FTX and the other Alameda Research—recent allegations about SBF’s multi-billion crypto empire makes it clear his baby had been force-fed a diet of user funds, all sinking into the…Read more...

Lee Cronin teases Evil Dead Rise’s connections to the wider franchise. Bryce Dallas Howard will lead Disney+’s Witch Mountain reboot. Plus, filming wraps on Dune 2, and check out two more sneak peeks at Sonic Prime. Spoilers away!

Mexican regulators announced that Ticketmaster’s Mexican branch would be fined up to 10% of its sales in 2021 for botching ticket sales to Bad Bunny concerts in Mexico City last Friday and Saturday, which resulted in more than a thousand fans being turned away.Read more...

On November 12, China’s Long March 6A rocket broke apart after launch, scattering debris in low Earth orbit. Now, reports suggest that the disintegrated upper stage of the rocket has grown to a cloud of 350 pieces of space debris.Read more...

Amazon would like to help you use your Echo Show without talking. The company is rolling out an update this week that it hopes will “make interacting with Alexa more natural.”

I’ve been a Nikon shooter since I picked up my first DSLR, the entry level D3300, in 2016. At the time, it came down to price: Canon and Nikon were about the same quality as far as still images went, and mine was the cheaper kit. But I liked the ease of the menu system and the results I got from the camera, so I kept…Read more...

The UK-based tech company ironically called “Improbable” officially decided to shutter the company working on its strange, opaque “military metaverse.” It’s another blow to the folks who once talked up the promise of shared virtual worlds technology, especially because somebody thought a solid use case for a metaverse…Read more...

Elon Musk, who was booed mercilessly by a stadium full of people on Sunday during a Dave Chappelle stand-up show, has deleted tweets that sought to explain away the jeers. Musk had claimed the crowd was “90% cheers” and that there was a fight in the audience that stopped him from speaking normally, both apparent lies…Read more...

No offense to Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, or even James McAvoy, but Ruth Wilson has always been His Dark Materials’ biggest star. Her icy, enigmatic villain, Mrs. Coulter, serves as the lynchpin of both of tonight’s episodes, as she’s forced to take stock of her past actions… and what they may cost her in the future.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of U.S. authorities.Read more...

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A class action lawsuit was filed against Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), on Friday, in which investors claimed the company didn’t disclose celebrities’ alleged involvement in promoting and selling NFTs (non-fungible tokens).Read more...

Netflix’s latest animated adaptation takes us to the world of BioWare’s beloved fantasy RPG series Dragon Age, as we follow the tormented Elven rogue Miriam when she’s recruited on a deadly heist at the heart of the Tevinter Imperium. But did Absolution get a critical hit or miss? Thankfully, much more of the former…Read more...