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There’ve been so many superhero movies that have come out since 1998 that nearly every one of them has someone go to their defense. Think of whatever’s considered the worst MCU movie, or the worst movie in the X-Men or Spider-Man franchises, and you can probably name someone who would tell you that those entries are…Read more...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has managed to catapult several actors to stardom, and Chris Hemsworth is one of its best poster boys. Previously best known for playing Kirk’s dad in the opening minutes of Star Trek’s 2009 reboot, the first Thor movie from 2011 supercharged his career like a bolt of lightning, to the…Read more...

Tech companies are making a list and checking it twice, and if you’re not careful with your holiday gift giving, your friends and family will be on it.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s tweets are once again being used in as evidence in a case filed with federal regulators. This time, the parties citing his tweets are former SpaceX employees, who are claiming that the company fired them in retaliation for circulating an open letter criticizing Musk’s behavior and his tweets.Read more...

As Twitter under Elon Musk keeps orbiting the edge of a black hole that could bring about the social media platform’s inevitable demise, we can still have a little bit of fun.

Defamation, an umbrella term encompassing both libel and slander, is a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to recover damages if the defendant makes a false statement about them to others, harming their reputation and esteem in the community. However, different rules apply when the statements involve public figures…Read more...

As Twitter goes through an upheaval and rumors of its potential demise—or likely malfunction—spread, millions of people are starting to imagine a world without Twitter. While many folks may think the platform has nothing to do with them, there are countless systems that have drastically changed in the 16 years since…Read more...

Cloud gaming is here, and it’s taking off. Everything from your streaming box to your Chromebook can play AAA games from the cloud, so long as you have the internet speed to handle it. But not all the cloud-gaming services offer the same thing—or even the same gaming libraries.Read more...

Disenchanted, the direct-to-Disney+ sequel for the best Disney live-action fairy tale film, is held together by the magic that is Amy Adams. The story, unfortunately, lacks enough of its own magic to feel completely satisfying.Read more...

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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest in toy news. This week, Lego gives you a much smaller Eiffel Tower than the five-foot monster it recently revealed, Nerf’s armory grows ever weirder, and a new Gandalf figure comes to us at the turn of the tide. Check it out!

Taylor Swift’s legion of rabid fans might just be able to accomplish something decades of legal scholars, millions in political lobbying, and the Biden administration couldn’t: implement meaningful antitrust reform.Read more...

Things are really going off the rails at Twitter, as Elon Musk pushes forward in a hostile takeover that seems liable to ensure he’s eventually the only one left at the social media platform. In the latest set of deeply confusing declarations from the multi-CEO and “Chief Twit,” Musk reinstated Twitter accounts for…Read more...

Elizabeth Holmes, the Stanford dropout, startup founder, and Theranos CEO who lied over and over about her blood testing startup, can expect time behind bars in the near future. Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release in San Jose federal court on Friday. The sentence came down…Read more...

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Declassified documents confirm former President Donald Trump illegally posted a satellite image of a failed rocket launch in Iran on Twitter in 2019. The image showed a rocket that exploded on a launch pad after country officials unsuccessfully tried to launch a satellite. Trump reportedly published the image to…Read more...

NASA signed an arrangement with the Japanese government that extends Japan’s presence on the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030, in addition to contributing components for a future lunar outpost.Read more...

Fans of Prime Video’s The Peripheral will have noticed that for all the discussion of “the Met”—the police force that acts as a balance to the corrupt elite class and the mysterious (also corrupt) Research Institute that control futuristic London—we have yet to really meet them. That’s about to change with today’s…Read more...

Things continue to look bad for the blockchain. Bank of America (BofA) analysts have downgraded Coinbase’s stock, citing the “fallout from the FTX collapse.” The bank moved Coinbase shares to “neutral” from “buy,” in a Friday note to the bank’s investment clients, according to multiple financial outlets. BofA also…Read more...

Surprise! If you were still waiting on all the news for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary, in time-twisting form the BBC is already teasing us with news for what’s to come beyond it—like a new face joining team TARDIS.

Norrin Radd has a long, long history in the realm of the Marvel Cosmic—but a new chapter in his tale isn’t just going to bring the Silver Surfer down to earth, but introduce a major new hero to the Marvel Comics universe.Read more...

Captions on services such as Netflix or YouTube are essential for those with hearing issues—and they’re a handy option for everyone when we’re in loud environments or have to watch videos in silence. Now our phones and laptops have grown smart enough to start captioning both audio and video streams automatically.

Only the mind of director James Gunn could have light-bulbed the idea to create a new Marvel Studios holiday tradition with his Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.Read more...

If you thought Indiana Jones marrying Marion Ravenwood and living with their son Mutt was the end, think again. The team behind Indiana Jones 5 didn’t see that as a proper send-off for the iconic cinema star, and that became the focus of the new movie, out June 30, 2023.

As the world faces an unfolding energy crisis and an ongoing climate crisis, a hydropower plant in Spain is going dark because of low water levels at the reservoir that powers it. The country has spent months in a major drought.

After three-and-a-half years of sailing above Earth, the LightSail 2 spacecraft has burnt its shiny metallic wings as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere in a fiery blaze.Read more...

With type 1 diabetes, the body attacks itself. A person’s own immune system destroys the pancreas over time, leaving the critical organ unable to produce insulin and regulate blood sugar. Almost 1.9 million people, including about 244,000 children, live with the life-altering illness. It is a disease with no cure or…Read more...

It’s hard to even imagine. A world ravaged by climate change. People totally consumed by technology. Mega corporations in control of everything. Robots performing menial tasks. Wait, did we say “hard” to imagine? We meant we’re literally living it. The “it” being Wall-E, Pixar’s 2008 Oscar-winning masterpiece…Read more...

Earlier this month, agents from both the FBI and the U.S. Air Force raided multiple homes belonging to a man who runs a little-known blog about Area 51. That man, Joerg Arnu, said the swarm of federal agents in riot gear busted into his primary residence, handcuffed him, then marched him outside to wait in the…Read more...

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar along with other Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into the real estate monopoly guided by RealPage, a software used by some landlords to set monthly rent prices for apartments.

Ongoing drought along the Mississippi River has revealed several previously sunken treasures, a list that now includes a jaw fragment from an ancient lion species that went extinct thousands of years ago.

They say it’s always darkest before the dawn, and that’s certainly true of DC Comics. Having spent most of 2022 on the tie-in event Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths—which I won’t insult you by trying to summarize, but suffice it to say things were very bleak for all of the publisher’s superheroes—2023 will be the “Dawn…Read more...

Twitter employees are abandoning Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner and self-described ‘chief twit,’ in droves after his messy first few weeks at the blue bird app.Read more...

The Artemis era has officially begun following the successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System, which delivered the Orion capsule to space. As the spacecraft begins its first uncrewed trip to the Moon and back, NASA’s on-board cameras will document the entire journey.

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Internet service providers will soon have to publish “nutrition labels” that prominently display the actual costs of their services, breaking down hidden fees, data caps, speed promises, and information about when discounts expire, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday. The labels will make it far…Read more...

DC Universe and Reebok have partnered up to create a limited series of shoes based on some iconic supers—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all represented, as well as some truly villainous baddies—Lex Luthor, the Joker, and Harley Quinn. The shoes are genuinely very cute, and we’ve got a ton of images for you to…Read more...

Mark Zuckerberg wants his staff to know he hasn’t forgotten how to make money.Read more...

As it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display…Read more...

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Monster High will return. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on the finales of Chucky and Stargirl, and what’s next on Kung Fu and The Winchesters. Plus, more details about the return of Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers!

Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that mass exodus left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things…Read more...

Once upon a time, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a jewel of the web3 world. Now, in the span of a week, its reputation has transformed from shooting star to sinking ship. After admitting to mismanaging large amounts of customer money, the exchange’s founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (also known by his initials…Read more...

In Bangladesh, two sisters hurry home one afternoon. At first, nothing seems unusual as they bicker in typical sibling fashion (“Come quick, or you’re dead!”) and go about their routine. But as writer-director Nuhash Humayun’s horror short Moshari continues, it becomes clear that something is wrong in their world. …Read more...

You are not experiencing post-apocalyptic déjà vu. Hollywood is, yet again, attempting to remake John Carpenter’s landmark 1981 film, Escape From New York. This time, from the filmmaking team behind Ready or Not and Scream, Radio Silence.Read more...

It was only a matter of time before more current Star Wars universe characters found their way to Galaxy’s Edge at Disney Parks. Starting this week, The Mandalorian heroes Din Djarin and Grogu will be appearing in Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland.Read more...

A trio of the nation’s premier law schools are bucking a longstanding ranking trend and opting out of the U.S. New and World Report’s top colleges list. Dean’s from the schools expressed exhaustion with the list’s incentive structures and said the company’s ranking methodology is mostly to blame.Read more...

NASA recently added a new Moon landing to its Artemis plans and it needs a specialized human landing system to carry it out. To virtually no one’s surprise, NASA chose SpaceX to develop this second lunar lander.

What was once a Star Wars joke is a fully armed and operational merchandising event. Today is Life Day, which means that from its theme parks to its stores, Disney will find a way to sell you as many Wookiee-affiliated pieces of merchandise as possible: especially those pale blue orbs. But what were they even for?…Read more...

Meta reportedly fired more than a dozen security guards and other workers in the last year after internal investigations revealed they had been selling users’ information and login details to hackers. Some of those who received disciplinary actions were contractors who acquired information from users that were locked…Read more...