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The first Child’s Play movie came out in 1988, followed by a string of increasingly campy sequels (and one in-name-only reboot), but its iconic antagonist is now more popular than ever thanks to the runaway success of the TV series Chucky.

In the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal’s latest decision about social media companies flagging and banning disinformation, “censorship” is the word of the day, and the concept of “content moderation,” as limited as it often seems, is a foreign concept.

One of the biggest shifts in Star Wars history happened when the fans got control. That’s not how history would phrase it, but after Disney purchased the franchise, it was the first time people who grew up loving the films were finally given a chance to make them. While George Lucas was in charge, people like J.J.…Read more...

Over the weekend, President Joe Biden declared the covid-19 pandemic over—the latest in a long line of people with a public platform to do so over the past two-plus years. But while it may be true that covid-19 will be a tamer disease moving forward, the current status quo isn’t all that great.Read more...

If you have this sense that there hasn’t been a major Hollywood release in a long, long time, you’d be right. This year, for some reason, the end of summer into early fall has been very quiet at your local theater. Slowly but surely though, that’s going to change, leading into two and a half months of major…Read more...

I’m not a big football guy. I am, however, human and sometimes my emotions get the best of me. The same can be said about Tom Brady, who smashed a perfectly good Microsoft Surface tablet on the ground yesterday in the midst of a football game.Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has amazed us with pictures of distant galaxies and glittering nebulae, but now it’s returned its first images of our solar system neighbor Mars. The newly released data comes from the telescope’s infrared instruments and provides scientists with information about Mars’ surface and atmospheric…Read more...

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Game companies Asmodee and Z-Man Games have announced that they are going to be collaborating to create Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Pandemic System Game. An incredibly popular, collaborative game, Pandemic is a great base system, and adding a Star Wars skin (especially when it has cool figurines like Darth Maul)…Read more...

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Last year, Netflix brought us Gundam: Hathaway, a modern entry in the mecha franchise’s vaunted “Universal Century” timeline that, despite a weight of context upon it, served as an interesting entry into a decades-old saga. This year, we have another Gundam movie on the way—but it’s one that works best if you love the…Read more...

Hurricane Fiona tore through Puerto Rico on Sunday, knocking out power across the island and unleashing catastrophic flooding. As of writing, more than 1.36 million households are without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us.

iPhone users who whipped out the big bucks on the company’s most expensive new smartphone are reportedly experiencing a major bug possibly related to the device’s optical image stabilization(OIS) feature. Users reporting the issues over the weekend posted videos showing their devices vibrating and physically failing…Read more...

It’s been nearly 30 years since Scott Bakula’s Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into time (and from the airwaves), but Quantum Leap—a popular show during its five-season run—has since maintained a cult following. It’s no surprise NBC has dipped back into the time-travel well with a reboot, which premieres today.Read more...

Expandability was one of the best promised features when Analogue first announced its Pocket handheld back in late 2019, with an extra FPGA that developers could use to transform the handheld into other consoles, which now includes the Super Nintendo, through some very easy updates.Read more...

Plus, more casting from Star Wars: The Acolyte, a Hocus Pocus 2 trailer, and a new sneak peek at the Quantum Leap reboot. Also, Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) says that he wants to take the third season of Primal in a different direction.Read more...

Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world, continued to plunge in price over the weekend following the network’s highly publicized technical change known as ‘the Merge’ last Thursday as well as comments from the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission that ether might need to be a treated as a…Read more...

It is not a spoiler to say that weddings in the Game of Thrones franchise don’t often end well. There was, of course, the infamous Red Wedding, where Robb and Catelyn Stark were murdered after the former spurned a marriage/political alliance with House Frey. Then there was the wedding of the horrible King Joffrey to…Read more...

Next weekend, James Cameron’s 2009 science fantasy epic Avatar will be returning to theaters. As easy as it’s been in the years since to snark about the lack of memorable characters or even much of a plot that film contained, there’s no denying the impact that it had back in the day. With The Way of Water set to…Read more...

Tetsuya Endo’s Spy x Family is a very good anime that happens to feature an eclectic cast of characters. Loid Forger and Yor Briar are respectively a spy and assassin pretending to be husband and wife, and their adoptive daughter Anya is the only one who knows their secrets, as she has telepathic powers. The show…Read more...

Just before the weekend started, Warner Bros. Discovery up and surprised everyone when they revealed that a sequel to their 2005 Constantine movie was in development. With Keanu Reeves and original director Francis Lawrence both set to return, it seemed like a pleasant shock...until one had to remember that way back…Read more...

Squid Game was a massive hit when it first premiered in 2021, and it’s gone on to win various awards and acclaim throughout this current awards season. Even though the second season is some ways off, there exists the question of how long the show will run, and what it can do to top itself with future seasons. And part…Read more...

Next week, NBC’s reboot-revival of Quantum Leap will air. While it’s been up in the air for some time if the revival would ever happen, the question has since shifted to if Scott Bakula would return to reprise original hero Sam Beckett. And if you were hoping for some kind of legacy mantle story, you’re about to be…Read more...

If you play video games, there’s a good chance that you play (or are at least aware of) Genshin Impact. The action-RPG from developer HoYoverse that first reminded people of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been a big deal since it first landed in 2020, with players and fans alike falling hard for the game’s…Read more...

These days, crossovers between IP are all the rage, and it is admittedly a mixed bag. As thrilling as it can often be to see three different eras of Spider-Men hang out with each other or watch Master Chief ride the Iron Giant into a battlefield, that kind of shine does have the potential of losing its luster the more…Read more...

Disney’s The Owl House has managed to really find a place for itself in the current era of western animation, and a fanbase that grew as its second season aired (in stops and starts, naturally). The good news is that the show is coming back in October for season three. The bad news is that it’ll be the show’s last…Read more...

Casts for Star Wars’ various movies and films are almost always interesting, just because it’s fun to see who pops up. The cast for the next show, The Acolyte, recently added The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto and Squid Game’s Lee Jung-Jae to its strong lineup, and now the show’s got another solid addition in the form of…Read more...

Prolific New York actor Henry Silva passed away earlier in the week. Per the Hollywood Reporter, he passed just a day before he would’ve turned 96 years old.

There is no way to live like an Android user on iOS and vice versa. But you can certainly try. With my recent journey of hopping back and forth between iPhone and Android phones, I thought it might be fun to try out some of the “hacks” that exist for people who want to take a dip in a different kind of pool.

Have you ever wanted to gaslight an AI? Well, now you can, and it doesn’t take much more knowhow than a few strings of text. One Twitter-based bot is finding itself at the center of a potentially devastating exploit that has some AI researchers and developers equal parts bemused and concerned.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and nerdiest toy news. This week, Hasbro heads back to the Haslab with a flamin’ hot Marvel set, Mondo conjures up an X-Men icon, and much, much more. Check it out!

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Syfy’s new horror series Reginald the Vampire follows a freshly turned bloodsucker (Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Jacob Batalon) who’s doing his best to figure out his new supernaturally enhanced life—something that’s far more complex that he initially realized. The show hits Syfy in October and at a recent press…Read more...

Rejoice, Constantine fans: Deadline reports that Keanu Reeves is set to reprise the role of John Constantine in a continuation of the 2005 Warner Bros. DC film he starred in, which didn’t find initial box-office success but has since become something of a cult classic.Read more...

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Uber has been hacked and boy does it look bad. The hacker, which boasted of their achievements via Telegram this week, claims to be an 18-year-old who allegedly gained such liberal access to the tech giant’s network that they were able to Slack the Uber workforce and post a picture of a dick on the company’s internal…Read more...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency that brought you great hits like airport facial recognition, kids in cages, and a short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, is setting its sight on another supposed hotbed of terror—video games.Read more...

The Karate Kid franchise is coming back to theaters. How or with whom, exactly, we don’t yet know. Sony Pictures just sent out a press release detailing some new additions and changes to its release schedule and right at the top was the following: “Karate Kid (Columbia Pictures) – June 7, 2024" followed by the phrase…Read more...

California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate a Virginia-based company revealed by the Associated Press to provide law enforcement agencies across the U.S. with access to cellphone tracking technology capable of mapping people’s movements “months back in time.”

This fall, from the writer of Rogue One, The Book of Eli, and After Earth, a brand new sci-fi adventure is on the way. Set in a future where Earth has been conquered by giant alien mechs, a young woman finds a map that might hold the key to saving humanity. Sounds cool, right? Well, it’s called Gundog but can’t see it…Read more...

Five years ago this month, Hurricane Maria formed in the Atlantic Ocean, creating one of the U.S.’s most devastating humanitarian disasters of the 21st century.Read more...

Believe it or not, at one point in time, the Nintendo 3DS was considered a large handheld with its XL model, but it’s just not when you compare it to newer portable consoles like the Switch. The 3DS XL is now relatively small, which was apparently a problem for one fan, who came up with a way to supersize it—dual…Read more...

Halloween is a mere 45 days away, but there’s no reason to panic and start throwing fake cobwebs on the windows and covering the porch in decorative gourds. You’ve still got plenty of time to put together a haunted house that will drive trick-or-treaters to your door and fill your mailbox with passive-aggressive notes…Read more...

Starlink has made its way to the southernmost continent, beaming down broadband internet to a research center in Antartica. McMurdo Station, a research outpost run by the U.S. Antarctic Program, is testing out a Starlink terminal to enhance its connectivity.Read more...

Saturn’s rings are one of the most iconic structures in the solar system, but their genesis has long been up for debate. New research suggests that the spectacular rings may have been born out of the death of an icy moon.Read more...

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Having the lights turn on as soon as you walk into a room is exactly how we envisioned the smart home. But it hasn’t been easy to configure unless you program a routine or a motion sensor around the house to trigger the lights. Signify, the makers behind WiZ and the Philips Hue smart bulbs, have figured out a way to…Read more...

Big tech companies have spared no expense gobbling up competitors in recent years even as lawmakers hammer out historic antitrust legislation intended to curb their most anti-competitive impulses.Read more...

House science committee leaders are asking the FAA to disclose more details as the agency investigates a recent incident involving the failed launch of an uncrewed Blue Origin New Shepard rocket.Read more...

Let’s say you love the world of Pixar’s Toy Story but also are cool with letting a sentient robot live in your home that seems like it could, hypothetically, one day decide to kill you. If so, well, we have just the toy for you.Read more...