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A new Joker film had its first—and probably last—showing earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. The People’s Joker, described as “a queer coming-of-age story complete with a copyright-defying array of villains and heroes,” was screened once and only once. Future screenings of the film have been…Read more...

Meta this week said it stepped in to disrupt two online “influence operations,” allegedly originating out of Russia and China. The former marks the “largest and most complex Russian-origin operation,” the company’s moved to disrupt since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, while the latter represents the first…Read more...

They’re raw and a bit grainy, but LICIACube’s first batch of images have arrived, showing the immediate effects of the DART spacecraft crashing into Dimorphos.Read more...

New Disney+ series Andor is grabbing all the Star Wars attention lately, but for High Republic fans, there’s a new tale out next week well worthy of notice. io9 is thrilled to have an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Deceit, the latest in the series. It’s by Justina Ireland (2021's Out of…Read more...

The end is in sight for Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), world’s weariest and most war-torn former babysitter, and her slash-happy nemesis, Michael Myers—but first, they have to find each other again. Once they do, as this final Halloween Ends trailer teases, it could mean curtains for them both.

NASA’s DART mission to ram a kinetic impactor into a harmless asteroid went perfectly yesterday, resulting in the desired destruction of the spacecraft. And as views from Earth showed, the effects of the impact weren’t subtle.Read more...

Paleontologists have discovered a bizarre worm-like creature from the Cambrian Period that has features associated with three groups of living animals. Just a half-inch long and covered in bristles, the armored Wufengella is providing clues as to how ancient filter-feeders evolved.Read more...

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Get a look at Lindsey Wallace in Halloween Ends. Melanie Lynskey joins the cast of HBO’s The Last of Us. Jodie Whittaker promises her Doctor Who regeneration scene is “one for the Whovians.” Plus, one last look at Smile, and new set pictures from Secret Invasion. To me, my Spoilers!

This ongoing chess cheating controversy is getting as exhausting as playing 50 rounds of chess back to back with your 7-year-old niece. We’re getting close to a month of this, yet without tangible proof of any chess con we might never see the end of it.Read more...

As one of the few companies that’s figured out how to make robots that consumers actually want, iRobot sells a wide range of robo-cleaners, including both vacuums and floor moppers. Its new Roomba Combo j7+ is the first Roomba bot to do both, using a clever mechanism that lifts the mopping tool completely out of the…Read more...

Return to Dust, a movie that had been generating buzz in China as a sleeper hit, was unceremoniously pulled from streaming services in the country yesterday, according to multiple reports on social media. Mentioning the film on Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter, has even been banned. Will movie fans outside China…Read more...

Bones and All is a movie that defies easy categorization. It’s the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria, who to date has quite the pristine reputation. It stars Timothée Chalamet, one of the biggest young stars on the planet. By those measures, you might think it’s an…Read more...

NASA’s DART spacecraft has crashed into Dimorphos, with the loss of signal occurring today at exactly 7:14 p.m. ET as expected. Scientists will now pore over the data to see if the kinetic impactor altered the asteroid’s orbital trajectory.Read more...

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Shudder documentary series Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror has only four episodes to dig into everything its title implies—so instead of a rapid-fire encyclopedia, it wisely aims to be more of a curated cross-section focusing on specific moments and trends in horror history. Impeccable editing and a…Read more...

With properties like Scream, Dawson’s Creek, and The Vampire Diaries, writer Kevin Williamson has always been able to tap into a collective understanding. But a passion for movies or teen angst has nothing on the fear of covid-19, and that’s what Williamson deals with in Sick, a new film from director John Hyams,…Read more...

Nicki Minaj took to Instagram to share that the music video for her song “Likkle Miss Remix” featuring dancehall artist Skeng has been age-restricted on YouTube. While that would definitely upset most artists, Minaj claims that the age-restriction is a plot to prevent her from raking in views.Read more...

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The flight from LAX to DFW did not go as planned. Emerson Collins, an actor from Los Angeles, remembers the noises started before the plane even took off: strange grumblings, a weird sound like somebody was on the verge of throwing up. They were coming from the plane’s loudspeaker. Flight attendants assured…Read more...

NASA’s DART spacecraft is on track to hit a non-threatening asteroid today at 7:14 p.m. ET, in what is an important demonstration of a planetary defense strategy. But space is hard, and DART, traveling at 15,000 miles per hour, could whiz past the 520-foot-wide object. Here’s what would happen should that unlucky…Read more...

International crime-fighting agency Interpol reportedly issued a notice instructing law enforcement agencies worldwide to arrest Terraform Labs co-founder and CEO Do Kwon. Somehow, Kwon is still trying to convince the world, and likely himself, that he’s in fact, not on the run.Read more...

With the Pixel Watch looming around the corner, folks have been wondering what’s going on with Fitbit now that Google’s officially acquired the brand. According to an updated support page, it appears there’s account consolidation on the horizon.

Later today, NASA’s DART spacecraft will attempt to smash into a non-threatening asteroid. It’s one of the most important things we’ve done in space—if not the most important thing—as this experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid could eventually result in a robust and effective planetary defense strategy for…Read more...

The next time you move to squish a cockroach, you may want to pause before your shoe delivers the finishing blow. One of the earth’s most infamous insects could become its cyborg savior, according to a recent study by Japanese researchers.Read more...

In-flight Wi-Fi is a modern marvel: Connectivity beamed to your device mid-air, while you barrel through the atmosphere at hundreds of miles per hour. Unfortunately, it also often stinks. Service is frequently slow, breaks down, or never even gets started. And you can even end up shelling out money for Wi-Fi that…Read more...

Hmm, how to put this... I want to tell you about Book of Evil, an upcoming horror comic by The Batman Who Laughs writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock, and I want to do that by not telling you about it. Instead, I’d like to highly recommend that you scroll down and read io9's exclusive nine-page preview of the ComixologyRead more...

With Hurricane Ian threatening the Florida peninsula, NASA has opted to transport its 321-foot-tall Space Launch System to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the Artemis rocket and Orion spacecraft will be safe from potentially damaging winds.

Parts of Canada’s Atlantic coast are reeling after being battered by one of the most powerful storms to hit the country in history. Post-tropical cyclone Fiona swept through the province of Nova Scotia and parts of New Brunswick this weekend, killing at least one person and causing homes to collapse and widespread…Read more...

Magic: The Gathering is arguably weirder than it ever has been, whether it’s in its epic tales of spell-slinging Planeswakers in its primary card sets or its crossovers with everything from Street Fighter and Fortnite to Warhammer 40K and Lord of the Rings. But the series is often at its weirdest not when playing with…Read more...

Jupiter will appear larger and brighter than usual Monday night, as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.

Storied NSA whistleblower turned cybersecurity activist has a new credential to add to his name: Russian citizen.Read more...

The demise of DART is finally upon us, as the NASA spacecraft is on a collision course with the tiny Dimorphos asteroid. Here’s how you can watch this hugely important experiment to deflect an asteroid. The action begins at 5:30 p.m. ET on Monday.

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a horror movie that also feels like a warm hug, you should seek out Blood Relatives. Writer, director, and star Noah Segan (Looper, Knives Out) plays a vampire named Francis who thinks he’s the coolest guy ever. He wears a leather jacket, drives an old muscle car, traverses America, and…Read more...

A proposal recently passed by the California Air Resources Board has officially banned natural gas furnaces and heaters. The unanimous decision aims to phase out the sale of natural gas space and water heaters by 2030, NPR reported. California is the first state in the country to pass such a ban.Read more...

Whether you think they’re legitimate artistic creations or artistically derivative and plagiaristic, AI-generated images exist in a strange legal limbo that no governmental body has yet to disentangle. Yet one artist may be breaking new ground while opening up an even bigger can of worms for ownership in our…Read more...

With mild apologies to Din Djarin’s modified N1 Naboo Starfighter, we’ll always consider the Razor Crest to be the bounty hunter’s true ship. Lego hopes you feel the same—or at least close enough to shell out $600 galactic credits to purchase this new Ultimate Collector Series version of The Mandalorian’s ST-70 class…Read more...

Finally, a better look at Pedro Pascal as Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us series. The Mandalorian star shows his face as an apocalypse survivor out for redemption in a world riddled with “clickers,” humans who have mutated into zombies thanks to the worldwide Cordyceps Brain Infection outbreak. Here Pascal plays the lead…Read more...

Big Brother is watching you take your Instagram photos. In delightfully dystopic fashion, a Belgian artist has used artificial intelligence to scour open security cameras and match people’s Instagram photos to footage of them taking them, showing us how eyes—both human and digital—are on us at all times.

The UK’s privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has today served TikTok with notice that it believes the app may have breached UK data protection law, including processing the data of children under the age of 13 without parental consent.

Tropical Storm Ian strengthened into a category 1 hurricane early Monday morning, with sustained winds reaching 80 mph on its approach to western Cuba. It’s projected to gain more force, becoming a major storm (with winds over 111 mph), and make landfall on the island later today before continuing on a path toward…Read more...

Some iPhone users will start seeing a new country name engraved on the back of their devices.Read more...

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig take center stage in “Graveyard Goofs,” a Looney Tunes short which is a part of HBO Max’s Bugs Bunny’s Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacular. The iconic duo totally has everything under control in an io9 exclusive clip shared with us from Warner Bros. Animation.Read more...

Ancient Maya cities like Tikal and Cerén were heavily polluted with mercury, according to recent analysis of soil from the sites. Exposure to the element may have been a health hazard for the Maya and could be a risk to archaeologists today, according to the team that studied the samples.Read more...

After successfully landing a rover on Mars last year, China has its interplanetary ambitions set on farther destinations in the solar system. As part of its expanding Tianwen program, China hopes to launch two spacecraft in the early 2030s to explore Jupiter and Uranus.

The Most Extreme was a docuseries that aired on Animal Planet in the early 2000's. The premise across its five seasons was simple: A countdown of some of the most iconic animals under a given theme, from those that bite to those that suck blood. The Most Extreme would also take some time to imagine what humans would…Read more...

Werewolf by Night is the least MCU entry into the MCU since, well, before the MCU existed. That’s a good thing. Directed by Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino, the 53 minute short film debuts on Disney+ October 7 as the first ever “Marvel Studios Special Presentation.” It’s an apt description, because the…Read more...

Some odd storms on Jupiter discovered back in 2017 by a NASA spacecraft are particularly intriguing to scientists. New research attempted to figure out how the nine cyclones spinning at Jupiter’s north pole remain so organized.

The gaming laptops we cover here are often on the expensive end, thanks to having the latest high-end chips and graphics inside. But from students to people who care more about having access to new games than fidelity, there’s a whole market of gaming laptops that cost less than $1000. Enter the HP Victus 15, which…Read more...

Euphoria’s Storm Reid is joining the Nun sequel. Sarah Michelle Gellar teases her Teen Wolf spinoff hero. Jon Hurwitz wants a sixth season of Cobra Kai. Plus, another look at Supernatural prequel The Winchesters, and what’s coming on Rick and Morty. Spoilers now!