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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the coolest toy news around the internet. This week, Hot Toys delves into Kamen Rider, Bandai debuts its chonky new Godzilla, and NECA's Gargoyles line gives us the Iron Man Jonathan Frakes of our dreams.Check it out!

Apple is reportedly hoping that .7 mm will make a big difference for iPhone fanatics as the upcoming iPhone 15's screen stretch near to the very edge of the device. There could be more onscreen real estate for your fingers as well, as the Cupertino company may nix the notch and replace it with the Dynamic Island on...Read more...

Coinbase's CEO Brian Armstrong reportedly told the Financial Times that the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to halt trading in the exchange with all currencies except bitcoin. According to Armstrong, the suggestion came just before the SEC sued Coinbase last month.

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As suspected, the canister-like object that washed ashore in Green Head, Western Australia, in mid-July likely belongs to a discarded third stage from an Indian rocket, the Australian Space Agency announced over the weekend.Read more...

Dracula strikes in more new Last Voyage of the Demeter pictures. Listen to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's TMNT: Mutant Mayhem soundtrack. Warwick Davis wants to reprise his Rogue One character. Plus, get a glimpse of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical episode. Spoilers now!

Our first proper look at the return of Loki is here, and Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief has some proper chaos on his hands-familiar faces, familiar foes, fluorescent green pie, and oh, just a little thing like all of time itself coming apart at the seams, himself included.Read more...

Update: July 31, 8:57 a.m. ET: SpaceX successfully launched EchoStar 24 (Jupiter 3), with Falcon Heavy blasting off on Saturday July 28 at 11:04 p.m. ET. The rocket successfully deployed the 9.2-metric-ton communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit, and both side boosters performed successful landings....Read more...

Rep. Yvette Clarke wasn't exactly surprised when ex-President Donald Trump used an AI voice cloning tool to make Hitler, Elon Musk, and the Devil himself join a Twitter Space to troll Florida governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year. The former president wasn't fooling anyone with the doctored screenshot, but Clarke...Read more...

The summer movie season is often one of the most stable periods of the year: studios show off their big tentpoles (usually about a superhero, or something close to one) whose primary goal is to be crowd pleasers and make a lot of money. Since the formula's been around for about 20 years now, you'd reasonably assume...Read more...

Corporations all around the world are getting into AI, and you can now count Hasbro among them. Earlier in the week, the publisher of tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering revealed its new partnership with Xplored, the developers behind the digital board game platform Teburu.Read more...

Bandai's Digimon franchise is deeply beloved and hit at just the right time for kids who grew up in the 90s. But it's one of those properties whose earlier installments have been difficult to get physical releases of for one (usually rights-related) issue or another. Fortunately, things are about to change, because...Read more...

We've known for some time now that Saw X was on the horizon, and would return to the series' roots of people having to escape theseelaborate traps or die gruesomely. The question that's been on folks' minds, especially when it was revealed that Tobin Bell would return as John Jigsaw" Kramer was, how? Since the post-...Read more...

If you're a gamer, your graphics card is likely to be one of the most expensive components in your entire rig-so you want to be sure you're getting the most out of your investment. As with other pieces of hardware, the graphics card requires some careful care and attention over the course of its life to make sure it's...Read more...

Over the years, Seth Rogen's made a name for himself in adapting (and sometimes providing his acting talents to) lesser known comics or properties like Invincible and The Boys. You'd think by this point, and with those he'd have jumped ship to something bigger-namely Marvel or DC, similar to what indie directors have...Read more...

A24's new horror flick Talk to Me revolves around an embalmed hand that when touched, gives the other person a connection between the worlds of the dead and the living. In the film, a group of high schoolers use the thing at parties and record themselves on social media-you hold the hand, say talk to me," and a...Read more...

Marvel's Secret Invasion is now over as of a few days ago, and raised several questions during its six-episode run. Most of them we'll have to see play out in other movies or shows in the coming years (probably), but one of the most important right now is: how long has Rhodey (Don Cheadle) been a Skrull? Following the...Read more...

Mickey Mouse is one of the most famous characters in animation and Disney's most iconic character. Throughout the decades, the character's been kept alive in animation through numerous means, from the toddler show Mickey Mouse Funhouse to the likes of Kingdom Hearts for more older audiences.

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In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England bestowed a knighthood on notorious privateer Sir Francis Drake. The captain of the Golden Hind was hailed by the British crown for his exploits against Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and on what is now the U.S. Pacific coast (which did involve quite a lot of indiscriminate...Read more...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's buzzy startup Worldcoin has a relatively straightforward pitch to prospective users. First, you fork over a scan of your eyeball to one of several thousand iris-scanning, basketball-sized metal computers called Orbs." In exchange, you'll receive a one-of-a-kind World ID" that could one day be...Read more...

Google and Apple enjoy taking each other on in as many different arenas as possible: mobile phones, maps, cloud storage, music streaming, photo management, note taking, smart assistants, tablets, smartwatches, calendars, web browsers, word processors, email, and more besides. In cars, we have Android Auto and Apple...Read more...

Jeff Bergman will soon be back as Bugs Bunny in Max's Tiny Toons Looniversity. While promoting his upcoming documentary Looney Legends in Conversation, the voice actordiscussed playing the Looney Tunes icon for the past few decades, including Space Jam: A New Legacy.

Deja pandemic: with Hollywood experiencing a sudden shutdown of work-this time due to the ongoing actors and writers strikes-release dates are being delayed. The first studio to officially announce movies shifting on the calendar is Sony, and it affects highly anticipated releases like Spider-Man: Beyond the...Read more...

After much to do, and a split season to mark the occasion, Henry Cavill has hung up his swords as The Witcher's Geralt of Rivia. The second volume of the Netflix show's third season began streaming this week, and they're a fascinatingly weird trio-but they can't escape the context surrounding them.

Facebook users are down to their last month to sign up to receive a piece of Meta's $725 million settlement for privacy violations. The company signed the settlement in December 2022 in response to a class action lawsuit filed by the Keller Rohrback law firm, for its role in sharing users' data with Cambridge...Read more...

Were you watching Futurama back in 2003? If so, you've been waiting 20 years for a certain plot-point resolution. That said, considering the show was off the air for 10 years before its recent Hulu return, even later-arriving fans have been wondering for some time about this one.Read more...

Earlier today, SpaceX performed the second test of its newly installed Starship deluge system. This test was considerably more powerful than the first one, which the company conducted on July 17.Read more...

Lots of Americans have had the potential joy of eating a juicy steak taken away from them by a measly tick, new research out this week has found. The study estimates that up to 450,000 people in the U.S. have developed alpha-gal syndrome since 2010, otherwise known as an allergy to red meat. The condition is caused by...Read more...

Look out Grogu, Lizzo the Duchess has left a galaxy far, far away for a visit to Middle-earth.Read more...

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour is still making headlines, for better or for worse, but this past weekend, it wasn't fans shaking with excitement, it was the Earth. A Washington University geologist recently revealed that Swift's Seattle stop was such a rocking time, that the concerts showed up on a seismometer.Read more...

For the last month, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk danced around the idea that they might finally contribute something of value to the world in the form of a head-to-head Las Vegas cage match, and no, if you haven't been paying attention, that isn't a joke. As the weeks dragged by, Zuck, at least, seemed completely...Read more...

While there have been some efforts toward unionizing animation writers, there hasn't been much movement. A few studios are unionized under the Animation Guild (TAG), and a few more are organized with WGA, but in a recent announcement at an animation-themed WGA-led picket in New York, Susan Kim, WGA East animation...Read more...

More Americans plan to travel this year than in 2022, and even as revenge travel has slowed down, and despite inflation, a potential recession, nationwide mass layoffs, and disastrous travel delays, more people are flocking to airports than in recent years.Read more...

In the early 1980s, comic book creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird had a very silly idea. What would a turtle look like if it was a ninja? Almost 40 years later, that idea has become one of the most recognizable in the world. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may have started as a comic book, but they became toys,...Read more...

In what can only described as one of the most bizarre interviews I've read recently, Secret Invasion director Ali Selim spoke to Variety in the wake of the Marvel show's finale. The questions spanned the abbreviated runtimes, how much of the scripts he was allowed to change, and, most importantly, what he thinks about ...Read more...

Good Omens has returned-you can stream all of season two on Prime Video July 28-and there's lots to love about the return of Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), Crowley (David Tennant), and heaven and hell's relentlessly dysfunctional relationship with Earth. Here's our (spoiler-free) take on the six new episodes, which...Read more...

Get ready for terrifying thrills at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, soon to saturate both coasts with cinematic chills. The Exorcist: Believer has just been announced as rounding out the big names coming to HHN 2023 at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Orlando.Read more...

After several months of investigation, local and federal authorities-including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-announced this week that they have detected infectious agents like coronavirus, HIV, and hepatitis in a Fresno warehouse.

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, rebranded as X,announced on Thursday that he would be eliminating light mode on the social platform's app, plunging users into permanent darkness. But following an outcry from users, Musk quickly decided on a compromise.Read more...

When io9 saw Talk to Me at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, we knew it would become a breakout horror hit, especially once A24 became its distributor. This week, the film-which is both clever and alarmingly frightening-finally opens wide, and audiences can see what all the buzz is about.

Social media algorithms have been a point of contention for lawmakers and regulators for several years over concerns that users were being brainwashed by the flood of misinformation promoted on their feeds. As it turns out, while the algorithms do impact the person's experience on social media, four studies published...Read more...

In an exclusive report, Variety has learned that vendors for the 75th Primetime Emmys have been notified of a delay in the broadcast. Originally scheduled for September 18, the news of the pushback is no surprise, but with no timetable for when the AMPTP will return to the bargaining table with either the WGA or...Read more...

The U.S. agency dedicated to pushing the boundaries of space exploration is finally exploring the barest edges of the modern livestreaming era. On Thursday, NASA announced it's launching a beta for on-demand streaming content through NASA+. Oh, and if you couldn't already guess, that +" in the logo is shaped like a...Read more...

California-based Rocket Lab-the company voted most likely to compete with SpaceX-appears to be tinkering with its Neutron blueprints, as new artwork suggests.

Billy the puppet returns in a new look at Saw X. New Last Voyage of the Demeter clips herald Dracula's awakening. Scooby Doo and Krypto the Superdog are ready to team up in a new movie. Plus, what's next on Riverdale and Outlander. Spoilers away!

The third incarnation of Reddit's r/Place has come and gone, and now the social media platform has released a timelapse compilation of the project to highlight all of the whimsy-and anger-of its users.

A Twitter label correcting unfounded, misleading speculation posted by Elon Musk Tuesday was removed after the app's user-run Community notes system voted down the information.Read more...

Prepare yourselves for the power of the Scarab: in just a few weeks, DC Studios will see a newcomer arrive on the big screen in the form of fan-favorite comic book superhero Blue Beetle.

Hello, what have we here? An actual update on the Disney+ Lando series? Don't mind if we do.Read more...