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Christian Slater being part of Disney+’s Willow is easily one of the most exciting things about the series. Slater’s career has spanned decades and includes some of our most beloved films and shows. He’s the kind of actor who, if they’re in a project, instantly makes you more excited about it. However, previous to…Read more...

When a world of new Star Trek shows was still a glimmer in the mind’s eye of CBS, the thought of a world where there was “all Star Trek, all the time” after years of the franchise’s dormancy on TV seemed unfathomable. In 2022, however, the idea finally felt actually quite fathomed.

Elon Musk is fiddling while Rome burns—or rather shitposting as one of his companies’ stock price plummets. Tesla’s value has dropped precipitously over the past week and month, with multiple news outlets forecasting the electric vehicle manufacturer could have its worst year on record since going public in 2010—and…Read more...

The holiday weekend has given the Avatar franchise water legs. James Cameron’s blockbuster continues to dominate the global box office; as the Wrap reports, the Disney/20th Century film has now crossed the billion-dollar mark. This is a big deal for any film, but especially big for a sequel—and Avatar: The Way of WaterRead more...

As angry as passengers have been during this past week of delayed and canceled flights, lost luggage, and being stranded far away from friends and family during Christmas, that was apparently nothing compared to what Southwest Airline ground crew workers experienced, according to a union letter claiming some workers…Read more...

It’s incredible to believe that Stan Lee is older than Disney, the company that now houses Marvel Studios. But yes: Disney reaches its centennial next year, and Lee—well, he would have gotten there first and very nearly did. It’s hard to imagine a world without his iconic comic book characters, including Spider-Man,…Read more...

One of the bigger political news stories in 2022 was Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ harebrained scheme to ship immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in a bid to own the libs. While the plan backfired, a recent report from CBS Miami reveals more deception at the hands of the DeSantis administration, as a top…Read more...

On last week’s Willow, the Bone Reavers spoke about the horrors of the underground mountain home of the trolls called Skellin, and I really, really wanted to see it. Thankfully, just one week later, this sixth episode of Willow did just that as Kit and Willow were captured by trolls and the rest of the team went into…Read more...

2022 has been a year chock-full of severe weather worldwide, from heat waves and drought to hurricanes and floods. Even as we reach the end of December, the weather extremes haven’t let up.

The only thing scarier than America’s privatized healthcare system is America’s privatized healthcare system getting hacked. Well, I have bad news—Lake Charles Memorial Health System in Louisiana has been the subject of a ransomware attack, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of patients.Read more...

One of the world’s biggest renewable energy players may be misleading the public about its product. Earlier this month, Mongabay published a damning report on Enviva, the world’s biggest producer of wood chips used for biomass energy, based on allegations from an anonymous former employee, who claimed that the company…Read more...

The first season of Chainsaw Man came to an end this week, and with it the MAPPA anime’s trend of eclectic, inventive ending sequences, each episode’s credits soundtracked by a different artist. It saved one of its best choices for last in Eve’s “Fight Song,” which itself has a pretty slick anime video.

Archaeologists on a famous site in Idaho have found stemmed point tools that date to about 15,785 years ago, making them thousands of years older than the site’s previously known tools.Read more...

With only a small handful of days left in the year, SpaceX achieved a major milestone by pulling off its 60th orbital launch of the year—a goal that CEO Elon Musk had been targeting for the space company.Read more...

There’s at least one silver lining for tech workers who’ve faced a year of unprecedented layoffs and market instability. Most of the laid-off workers, according to new research, are at least landing on their feet.Read more...

Almost everyone loved the first season of Andor. Simply put, it was an enthralling and engaging season of television, unlike anything we’d seen before in Star Wars. However, like many things in Star Wars, we can’t lose sight of the fact it’s a prequel and, as such, does have to build to certain things.Read more...

There’s something very annoying about James Cameron’s self-righteous proclamation that he wouldn’t want to fetishize guns today. In an interview with Esquire, Middle East, Cameron said that “I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30 years ago, in our current…Read more...

The Right Stuff, the dating app that offers an alternative to all those other “woke” apps, is reportedly experiencing a dearth of users and new downloads three months after release. The Daily Beast first reported that two separate analytics companies have seen a staggering drop off in downloads since the app came…Read more...

The Food and Drug Administration has recently expanded the eligibility of an effective obesity drug known as Wegovy to children as young as 12. In a clinical trial, children who took Wegovy lost far more weight than those who took a placebo. The label expansion is the latest success for this new generation of obesity…Read more...

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Roscosmos says it needs more time to evaluate the flight worthiness of its damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, leaving the safety of three ISS crew members in doubt.Read more...

It’s been a hell of a year in energy. 2022 was full of historic changes—and quite a few surprises—as the world grappled with an energy crisis and reached a turning point in the energy transition. Here, we break down the top moments that made our eyebrows shoot up.

There are screw-ups and then there are screw-ups, and then there’s the disastrous holiday scheduling shitstorm ravaging Southwest Airlines right now. Though the airline initially blamed its tidal wave of mass flight cancellations and delays on unavoidable winter storms, an enraged pilot and union representative at the…Read more...

If you’ve ever looked up into the night sky and seen a bedazzlement of stars, you know awe: the rare moment that bewilderment feels good. The scale of the universe and huge diversity of the objects within it never fail to inspire amazement.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and its founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are reportedly being sued by investors that are accusing the company and Mark Zuckerberg’s arch nemeses of selling interest-bearing accounts while failing to register them as securities, per Bloomberg.

Helen of Troy was the face that launched 1,000 ships and a Shiba Inu named Kabosu is the face that birthed 1 million memes (and a cryptocurrency). Unfortunately, the famous dog is likely reaching the end of her life—signaling the end of an internet era.

The American government’s campaign against Chinese-owned TikTok has reached new heights. After passing a law that bans TikTok on devices used by government agencies, the U.S. House of Representatives is blocking its members and their staffers from using TikTok on official devices.Read more...

In the United States’ massive, inhumane, and money-grubbing prison industry, telecom companies have charged exorbitant prices to let inmates connect with their friends and family on the outside. A new bipartisan bill that managed to squeak its way through congress may finally provide relief for the folks who just want …Read more...

Jerry Bruckheimer still wants a third National Treasure movie. Get a new look at Trigun’s return. You’re going to have to wait a while for a Malignant sequel. Plus, a Flash star returns behind the camera for its final season. To me, my spoilers!

Consumer tech is a big umbrella, and as many great innovations as 2022 saw, the law of averages means there’s going to be some that don’t quite live up to their potential. Whether something had a lot of promise and didn’t fully deliver, or instead was just kind of sketch the whole time, there’s a lot of things that…Read more...

For better or worse, 2022 saw millions of workers who had been spending the past couple of years in hastily made home offices start returning to their daily commutes, but tech makers aren’t forgetting the lessons they learned since the sudden shift to work from home kicked off. Laptops are more popular than ever,…Read more...

It’s December 27, the year is basically over, and you know what that means: it’s time to look back on some stuff.

“Will [adaption X] break the video game curse?” is a debate as cyclical and pointless in entertainment criticism as “Are video games art?” is in games media, but Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin is intent on blending the two together to make his press tour as insufferable as possible.

A group of researchers is attempting to bounce radio signals off a 500-foot-wide asteroid during its close flyby of Earth on Tuesday.Read more...

PayPal, Venmo, and other cash app users who depend on digital payment platforms for business transactions can breathe a temporary sigh of relief. The Internal Revenue Service has delayed the implementation of a tax code change that would’ve mandated declaration of any exchanges over $600 by one full year, according…Read more...

Malka Older, the author of the Centanal Cycle, has a new book coming out. The Mimicking of Known Successes is both a cozy science-fiction mystery and an introspective slow-burn romance that comes together in startlingly tense moments of action. As Mossa and Pleiti work on a missing-person case together, the book…Read more...

A startup says it has begun releasing sulfur particles into Earth’s atmosphere, in a controversial attempt to combat climate change by deflecting sunlight. Make Sunsets, a company that sells carbon offset “cooling credits” for $10 each, is banking on solar geoengineering to cool down the planet and fill its coffers.…Read more...

Is it 2023 yet? We’re about to explode with anticipation for M3GAN—the killer doll (actually a kid-sized robot powered by an alarmingly self-aware AI) movie produced by noted nightmare inducers James Wan (The Conjuring) and Jason Blum (The Black Phone). This harrowing new clip makes us even more excited.

Preliminary data from a randomized clinical trial may point to a potential way to prevent long covid. The trial found that covid-19 patients who took metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug, were noticeably less likely to be diagnosed with long covid up to 10 months later than people in the control group. More…Read more...

The most prolific electric vehicle brand in the world, headed by one of the world’s most prolific tweeters, has a new year’s resolution for 2023. According to a report based on leaked internal schedules, Tesla wants to cut back a bit on its vehicle production for January out of its main China production plant. It will…Read more...

When the BBC dropped our first big look at the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials over Christmas, there were plenty of surprises—more looks at David Tennant’s new-old Doctor, teases for just how Donna Noble re-enters the Time Lord’s orbit, Neil Patrick Harris’ mysterious showman. But perhaps the biggest of all? Just…Read more...

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A new class action lawsuit claims the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor isn’t formatted to take darker skin tones into account, which is only exacerbating the noted biases of blood sensing tech that has routinely failed to accurately gauge blood oxygen levels for Black and brown people.Read more...

Hundreds of thousands of asteroids lurk in our solar system, and while space agencies track many of them, there’s always the chance that one will suddenly appear on a collision course with Earth. A new app on the website Neal.fun demonstrates what could happen if one smacked into any part of the planet.Read more...

Thanks in no small part to the epic array of streaming services now available, 2022 was a particularly robust year for genre TV—filled with shows that elevated the viewing experience with drama, humor, and emotional thrills we can’t stop thinking about. Here are io9's top sci-fi, horror, and fantasy series of the year.

When it’s not facing ongoing backlash from both federal and state lawmakers, TikTok is breeding some genuinely funny memes and trends. Enter: The Celebrity Death Hoax.

Across the U.S., at least 63 people have died amid unusually frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall. Officials confirmed the updated death count Tuesday morning, NBC News reported. At least 28 of the deaths occurred around Buffalo, New York, where it continues to snow.Read more...

The U.S. Space Force is getting a piece of a massive government funding bill, which it will use to boost the number of its satellites and to expand its newly acquired Space Development Agency (SDA).Read more...

A measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio has sickened over 80 children and hospitalized dozens. The majority of these cases have involved unvaccinated children who were nonetheless eligible for vaccination. It is not yet clear how long the outbreak will continue, with the most recent case having been detected just last…Read more...