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You’ve heard of Taco Tuesday, but what about new Star Wars toy Tuesday? No, it doesn’t have the same ring, but that’s what’s currently happening.Read more...

Saving everyone the agony of a six-hour-long presentation, Apple has quietly announced a colorful new 10th-generation iPad with a relocated selfie camera and a sixth-generation iPad Pro upgraded with the company’s M2 chip that debuted in MacBooks earlier this year.Read more...

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It seems like Black Adam was almost too powerful. According to Collider, the newest DC superhero film showed the antihero killing so many people that the MPAA refused to give it a PG-13 rating until after four rounds of cuts had been made.

Part of the process of making your own creation with Lego is building and rebuilding until you get it right: an approach that Lego itself takes because while we’ve gotten several Marvel Hulkbuster sets over the years, none come anywhere close to this towering 21-inch tall masterpiece.

Two and a half years after gulping down Giphy, Facebook’s parent company Meta is being forced to spit the gif-sharing company back up. The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has ruled that that Meta’s purchase of Giphy was anticompetitive—reaffirming an earlier decision from June.

Do Kwon, the founder of failed crypto project Terra, the leader of failing crypto project Luna 2.0, and man hiding from his native country’s prosecutors for alleged violations of financial securities law, is—all in all—“a little disappointed” in the way things are going for him.Read more...

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A new video from the Nord Stream pipeline leaks that began last month reveal a major wound—a hole about 50 meters (164 feet) across located approximately 80 meters (262 feet) below the ocean’s surface.

Even with over 35 films under his belt, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, countless awards for directors and filmmakers he’s worked with, a recent collaboration with King Kong, and a career spanning 68 years, Godzilla is only now getting the recognition he truly deserves: Mattel is about to turn the towering…Read more...

Riri will put out an original song for Black Panther... not Riri Williams, Rihanna. Filming is underway for the final season of Riverdale. And Black Noir could return to The Boys. Look, up in the sky... the spoiler-signal!

Prior to the inaugural launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981, NASA conducted a series of performance tests with a prototype known as Enterprise. Named for the fictional Star Trek vessel, Enterprise provided our first glimpse of what a future spaceship might actually look like.

A team of researchers studying an 80-year-old shipwreck in the North Sea have found that the ship, which was sunk by a bomb during World War II, is leaking hazardous pollutants onto the ocean floor.Read more...

You can run, but you can’t hide from tech layoffs. That apparently even applies to Microsoft, the world’s third most valuable company.Read more...

Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida in late September as a category 4 storm, bringing widespread flooding. Those toxic floodwaters appear to be spreading Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that turns fatal for many people unlucky enough to contract it.Read more...

I love a good cup of coffee, but if I’m going to a café, I’ll almost always get an espresso drink of some sort. Usually, it’s a cappuccino or a flat white (I’m basic like that), and I think it’s because it feels special, like a treat. This is probably because I’ve never had the space in my kitchen (let alone money)…Read more...

The phrase ‘fix in in post’ most often applies to removing unwanted items in an image. For product photographers, that can mean erasing support stands or lighting gear in frame; for jilted lovers, removing an ex-flame from a memorable shot. But no matter what needs to be removed, Photoshop will soon be able to handle…Read more...

FedEx is calling it quits on its cute but mostly ineffective “Roxo” last mile autonomous delivery robot. The move comes just weeks after Amazon ended field tests and gutted the team working on its Scout delivery robot.Read more...

DuckDuckGo launched a web browser for macOS in beta today, offering privacy-minded web surfers a new way to browse. The browser uses a variety of techniques to protect your information from snooping websites and even includes some innovative tools, including Duck Player, which is supposed to let you watch YouTube with…Read more...

Twitter’s potential future owner Elon Musk apparently thought for a moment that it would be a grand idea to fuse the blue bird app with his pal Kanye West’s potential new social media platform Parler. So, in typical Musk form, he tweeted out a Dragon Ball Z meme featuring him and West, who is legally known as Ye. …Read more...

Public school districts in Texas will soon start offering DNA and fingerprint kits to families of students as part of a law to help identify children in case of an “emergency,” according to a new report from the Houston Chronicle. And while the law never explicitly says it’s for identifying kids whose bodies may be…Read more...

If you’re a movie fan, maybe you’ve visited a filming location from one of your favorite movies. A park, a restaurant, a beach, somewhere that the cast and crew of an iconic movie stood years ago and immortalized. One of the easiest and most accessible examples of that is a house—and a new documentary is not only…Read more...

No one knows for sure what the future of DC will hold on the big screen, but two of its most popular stars are going to be front and center: Batman and Superman, as well as the worlds of both characters.

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Hop in the truck, strap in Dorothy, and watch out for the flying cows. Hollywood is getting back into the storm-chasing game with the film that brought the weather to the extreme, Twister. Deadline reports that after producer Steven Spielberg “flipped” out over a new script, his Amblin Entertainment is teaming up with…Read more...

Action-packed law comedy She-Hulk just concluded its first season in true Jennifer Walters style, not to mention excitement for the future of the character. Director Kat Coiro recently sat down with io9 to chat about the season, creating a distinct take on a Marvel show, and that K.E.V.I.N cameo with Jen’s wink to the…Read more...

A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal claims that a law firm hired cyber mercenaries to hack into his emails and circulate embarrassing material that ultimately led to his firing from the paper.Read more...

You can now easily transfer your Netflix profile to another Netflix account, but don’t you dare even hint you’re planning to do the same with your password.

Zoomers are growing up and TikTok isn’t just for teens anymore, or at least it’s trying not to be. The platform is aiming to graduate along with its primary user-base. And as one step towards maturity, TikTok is introducing an adults-only option for live streamers on the platform who wish to restrict their viewership…Read more...

Texas regulators are investigating crypto exchange FTX and its spend-thrift founder Sam Bankman-Fried to determine whether or not they are offering unregistered securities products. The investigation, first reported by Barrons, is reportedly being carried out by the Texas State Securities Board which revealed the…Read more...

There might come a time when I am not amazed by the dexterity of the writing on Interview With the Vampire, but the third episode does not disappoint. “Is My Very Nature That of a Devil” opens in Jackson Square, with Lestat and Louis reading together on a bench. Lestat reads from a newspaper column, describing a…Read more...

There is a wide discrepancy between how small time and up-and-coming content creators on social media are being paid just as more folks are hoping to generate some new income by monetizing their content on social media.

The best kind of drama starts with iOS and Android. That’s why our ears perked up at the latest Power On newsletter on Bloomberg over the weekend. A report from author Mark Gurman suggests Apple is coming directly for Google with an iPad that docks just like the recently teased Pixel Tablet.

There’s a law in the United States that says companies aren’t supposed to track young children, but they do it anyway. More than two thirds of the most popular kids’ iPhone apps collect and share personal information, according to a recent study from Pixalate. By some estimates, digital ad firms have collected an…Read more...

There had been speculation that the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie could be Harrison Ford’s last film role. Not only is that untrue, Ford is jumping from that franchise into the biggest one in all of modern Hollywood: the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Read more...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has a special package for Earth: rocky samples from one of the most ancient objects in the universe. The probe snagged a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and has been making its way for an Earth drop-off ever since. To keep it on track, NASA recently executed the spacecraft’s…Read more...

Dangerous, radioactive particles are all over an elementary school in suburban St. Louis, according to a recently published analysis by Boston Chemical Data Corp.Read more...

Social media has fostered expectations of maximalism, hyper-beauty, and happiness, but this digital veneer has left some users craving connection over aesthetics. Gas is an app for teenagers that peels back the previous tropes of social media by focusing on cultivating positivity in a smaller social network.

Two newborn cheetah cubs at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia are the latest stars of the Cheetah Cub Cam, a 24/7 stream of adorable spottedness and big cat cuddles.Read more...

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The apocalyptic dread of Y2K, captured by the last era of camcorder users, looms large in V/H/S/99, the fifth in the V/H/S found-footage horror anthology series. Unlike last year’s V/H/S/94, this installment gathers five unconnected stories, mashed together by an unseen editor who has a good instinct for saving the…Read more...

The Owl House, considered by io9's Justin Carter to be an incredible piece of animated media, has just embarked on its third—and final—season, and now fans without Disney+ subscriptions can watch the premiere, “Thanks to Them,” on YouTube.Read more...

The San Diego Water Authority wants to keep the lights on, even when the Sun goes down. It plans to use San Vicente Reservoir to store solar power energy in so-called water batteries to maximize the city’s renewable energy potential, NPR reports.

Taylor Swift is as much a force on TikTok as she is in music. The singer’s brand and relevance has only expanded across her nearly two-decade long career, and what sets her apart from many other artists (though certainly not all) is her uber-devoted fanbase—Swifties. Over the last few years, Swifties have been…Read more...

With nine Marvel movies set to release before the next Avengers film, The Kang Dynasty, there’s not much anyone can say about it. Two of the things we do know about it however are that Kang, played by Jonathan Majors, will be in it, and Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton will be directing. And now we know those two…Read more...

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The NES came with a bunch of different accessories that helped Nintendo justify calling it an “entertainment system,” including the first interactive light gun designed for home gaming. The Zapper only works on old TVs, but one YouTuber is struggling to figure out why they can’t hunt pixelated ducks on a CRT that measuresRead more...

A highly infectious strain of avian influenza has been raging across the U.S. for months now, claiming the lives of thousands of wild birds and tens of millions of domestic poultry, according to the latest estimates from the CDC.

Adalyn Grace’s Gothic fantasy Belladonna became a bestseller soon after its August release—meaning there are already many readers eager for the sequel. Foxglove won’t be out until August 2023, but io9 has an excerpt to share today, as well as the first look at its cover (plus a cover variant).