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Spider-Man’s director is out, WandaVision’s director is in. Matt Shakman, best known for directing the hit Marvel Studios show, is apparently the company’s new choice to direct its upcoming Fantastic Four film, which will be out November 8, 2024 as the first film in Phase Six. He’s currently in talks to take the job.Read more...

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SpaceX may have found another way to put all those telescope blocking satellites it has littering night skies to some good use. Starting next year, T-Mobile phones will connect with SpaceX’s Starlink service to bring satellite internet to its devices in an effort to bring about, “the end of mobile dead zones.” If it…Read more...

On Thursday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined ex-MMA commentator and TV host Joe Rogan on the latter’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, for some reason. The two collectively talked shit about rival social media platform Twitter, dropped hints about a new VR headset, and denied that social media is…Read more...

As technology evolves, so does society, shaping itself around those new advancements. The automobile changed the layout of cities (maybe for the worse) and television changed household dynamics, but the smartphone promises to shake things up even more. In Hong Kong, in order to stop distracted phone users from…Read more...

House of the Dragon has only just begun, but the Targaryen civil war has already been extended. HBO has announced that the series, set about 200 years before the events seen in Game of Thrones, will receive a second season, possibly because everyone and their mother (well, my mother, at least) watched last Sunday’s …Read more...

Before anyone had gotten a glimpse of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, it became well-known that the Prime Video series had a staggeringly huge budget. Now that the show’s almost here, it’s clear where a lot of that money went: creating an incredibly detailed world that brings Middle-Earth to life on screen.Read more...

Maggie and Negan’s Walking Dead spin-off has a name. Don’t let the name fool you (or, you know, lean into it) Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktopussy looks to be some weirdly wonderful pulp satire. We’ve also got trailers for an eco-terror film led by Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig (White Noise) and the Prime Video…Read more...

You’ll no doubt be familiar with the phrase “see link in bio”—a common way of pointing Twitter or Instagram followers towards even more links on the web, plugging whatever needs to be plugged. These links aren’t difficult to set up and you’ve got numerous services to choose from to get your own, should you want to let…Read more...

It’s finally happening: On Monday, August 29, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is set to launch for the first time, boosting an uncrewed Orion capsule on a journey to the Moon. This crucial first mission in the Artemis program is part of the preparation to send astronauts to the Moon later this decade.Read more...

It’s a strange time for me to sit down and attempt to don the gadget reviewer hat. I was solo parenting a sick kid for the week, and then I contracted the stupid virus, which meant this review had to take a backseat. There was much crying, mucus, missed deadlines, and a copious amount of video chat—more than I had…Read more...

Any institution regularly dealing with customers’ money will be a prime target for lawsuits, but Coinbase, one of the most popular crypto exchanges on the scene, has been practically showered with legal complaints just this past month, all of them aspiring class action suits.Read more...

Researchers say that a mysterious “threat actor” (a fancy term for a hacker or hacker group) has managed to steal nearly 10,000 login credentials from the employees of 130 organizations, in the latest far-reaching supply chain attack on corporate America. Many of the victims are prominent software companies,…Read more...

In just a few weeks, D23 Expo will host its bi-annual Disney content showcase for fans at the Anaheim Convention Center. And while it’s long been sold out, the event will be taking a lot of its panels, presentations, exhibit tours, and conversations with special guests online so fans at home can watch.Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has taken its biggest image yet, exceeding the scale of the deep field image revealed by President Biden on July 12. The new image covers a region of sky eight times larger than the first Webb deep field, and it includes some dazzling structures from the cosmos.Read more...

Yep, they got it done. After some exchanges on Instagram teasing that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was circling his old Supernatural team, it’s finally going to happen. According to Entertainment Weekly, Morgan is set to reunite with his Winchester boy Jensen Ackles on Supernatural creator Eric Kripke’s current television…Read more...

Tesla is desperate to get a viral video scrubbed from the internet and TV screens after an advertisement showed one of the company’s vehicles mowing over a child-sized dummy.Read more...

When Google launched a carbon emissions tool for its flight tracker last fall, allowing consumers to see the individual emissions created by each flight they were browsing, it received widespread attention and praise from industry leaders and climate scientists alike. But last month the tech giant quietly shifted the…Read more...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in Tonga on January 15, the result was devastation. The eruption literally blew up an island, caused mass flooding in the surrounding areas, coated whole communities in a thick layer of ash, and took out telecommunications for weeks. Yet in that eruption, we got…Read more...

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No longer just a (very popular) game, League of Legends has spawned a Netflix series in Arcane (an awesome show)—and now the first novel set in the League universe is coming: Anthony Reynolds’ Ruination. Ahead of its release September 6, io9 has a sneak peek at the first chapter.Read more...

Did you know Waze was offering carpooling through its app? I did not. I own a car, so it was not something that was on my radar. But the folks who might currently rely on it will soon find they’ll have to figure out new ways to get around.

The biggest problem with Samaritan, a brand new superhero movie starring the one and only Sylvester Stallone, is a lack of identity. That’s oddly fitting since the movie itself is about a young boy trying to figure out the identity of a man who lives in his neighborhood. Is he the long-lost superhero Samaritan? Will…Read more...

A 36-year-old man in Italy appears to be uniquely unlucky, after he was hospitalized and diagnosed with covid-19, monkeypox, and HIV over a span of a single week in July. Thankfully, his covid and monkeypox co-infections did successfully clear up without issue, and he has since been placed on HIV treatment.Read more...

A little more than a week ago, marketer Tom Orbach absolutely delighted Twitter when he unveiled his LinkedIn Viral Post Generator, a website that uses AI to ape viral LinkedIn posts, cringe and all. The internet absolutely ate it up, so much so that a company decided to pay real money to own the thing.Read more...

Where many have tried and failed, the man behind The Hunger Games will once again give it another shot. Francis Lawrence, director of the last four Hunger Games movies including the upcoming prequel, has been signed to direct an adaptation of the popular sci-fi horror game BioShock for Netflix.Read more...

The problem with making low-rank Starfleet officers the heroes of your Star Trek show is that, at some point as it keeps going, they’ve done enough being heroes that it starts feeling a little weird that they’re still low-rank officers. Star Trek: Lower Decks, thankfully, is back to remind us that it’s very clever,…Read more...

Once again, the second episode of She-Hulk had some really excellent connective tissue for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. New characters and situations are introduced that not just explain where and when the show is happening, but tease what’s going to come next.Read more...

In a drastic step to significantly reduce fossil fuel emissions, California is expected to ban the sale of new gas powered vehicles by 2035. It’s a huge move from a state that buys the most trucks and cars in the entire country, and which is often a national trendsetter for environmental standards.Read more...

Landing safely on the Moon is one thing, but surviving through the cold temperatures of the two-week lunar night a whole other challenge That’s why NASA has recently contracted Astrobotic to develop a small rover for the Moon’s nighttime environment, with battery and communications technology meant to withstand…Read more...

On board a rocket named the Vulcan, a symbolic portion of Star Trek legend Nichelle Nichols’ ashes (donated by her son, Kyle Johnston) will be sent into space as a part of a deep-space trip that will honor many Star Trek luminaries. Gene Roddenberry and his wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, James “Scotty” Doohan, and…Read more...

Webb Space Telescope has detected “unequivocal” evidence of carbon dioxide in a distant exoplanet’s atmosphere, according to a European Space Agency release. According to the ESA, “it is the first clear, detailed, indisputable evidence” of carbon dioxide in a planet outside of our solar system.Read more...

New “Ghost Run” regulations set to take effect today could help close a half-century-old loophole that made guns developed using 3D printers or assembled with homemade parts essentially invisible to law enforcement.Read more...

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Fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films have a fairly set image of Elven ruler Galadriel: an etherial, mystical figure who looks a lot like Cate Blanchett. Prime Video’s new series Rings of Power, however, gives us a younger, more grounded and fiery take on the character, courtesy of actor Morfydd Clark.

Privacy-minded web browser DuckDuckGo has a new, free service they’re making open for all users who like the idea of stopping companies from tracking your data through emails.Read more...

Scientists in the UK say they’ve pulled off a feat of genetic engineering: creating a “synthetic” mouse embryo without the need for egg or sperm cells. The embryos were created with stem cells instead and were able to begin developing a brain, heart, and other organs for up to a week. The researchers believe that…Read more...

Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko will testify before a U.S. Senate committee about the social media company’s alleged security failings, in accordance with a congressional subpoena. Zatko, previously Twitter’s head of security, was also subpoenaed by Musk’s legal team earlier this week, to testify in the ongoing…Read more...

In only its second episode, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is already separating itself from the rest of the Marvel Disney+ family. So much happens in such a small amount of time that it feels like it should only be six episodes, tops, like a few of its predecessors. But no, She-Hulk is nine episodes and this second one …Read more...

As mind-blowing as it is to see a screen bend and even fold in half without taking any damage, we haven’t quite figured out the perfect use case for flexible OLEDs yet. Corsair is taking a swing at the technology with its new Xeneon Flex gaming monitor that allows users to bend in each side to create a more immersive…Read more...

Jameela Jamil (dressed as her She-Hulk character Titania) vandalized some She-Hulk posters in Los Angeles as a bit of PR. Christian Slater has been cast as the villain in the new live-action Spiderwick Chronicles. There’s so, so much horror coming, you guys. But is there more? There’s more!

If you haven’t managed to snag the much coveted PS5 yet, even though the damn thing’s been out for nearing two years, you won’t be happy to learn that it will now cost you even more to snag one if you happen to live outside the U.S.Read more...

SpaceX might have its sights set on Mars, but Rocket Lab is seeking to become the first private company to reach Venus and explore its clouds for signs of potential habitability.

Just a few months after DJI officially announced its folding Mini 3 Pro drone with improved obstacle avoidance, the company has followed up with another release for 2022: a radical redesign of the DJI FPV called the Avata, which is the company’s first drone with full propeller guards and is its second drone focusing…Read more...

A mission to Mars takes a distressing turn in Deus, a new sci-fi film starring and produced by Claudia Black (whose many credits include Farscape and Stargate SG-1, as well as voicing characters in major video game franchises like Uncharted and Mass Effect). io9 has an exclusive new trailer to share today!Read more...

We’ve all grown accustomed to hearing about foreign-seeded disinformation campaigns, but we seldom hear about America’s own covert influence operations. On Wednesday, however, social media researchers revealed details about what appears to have been a long-running U.S. disinformation effort aimed at web users in…Read more...

Earlier Wednesday, Facebook endured the digital equivalent of what happens when you drink one too many and your body says: “No, ma’am.” It filled users’ news feeds across the globe with very weird posts that random people had sent to celebrities like Eminem, Taylor Swift, and Nicki Minaj—stuff that wouldn’t turn up…Read more...

These days, Star Wars works better if you know Star Wars. Knowing that Obi-Wan Kenobi will let Darth Vader kill him makes the Obi-Wan Kenobi show richer. Hearing Ahsoka Tano say “Thrawn” on The Mandalorian will be that much sweeter to fans of Star Wars Rebels. The examples go on and on. And while playing to nostalgia…Read more...

On Wednesdays we wear black and watch the latest behind the scenes featurette for Tim Burton’s Netflix series centering on Wednesday Addams. In it, the master of cinematic oddities like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands discusses Wednesday star Jenna Ortega’s take on the classic Charles Addams character.Read more...

Black Adam will be the only new DC movie you see in theaters this year. Warner Bros. just moved Shazam: Fury of the Gods from its original December 2022 release date to March 17, 2023, a date originally intended for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. However, that has now been pushed back as well, to December 25, 2023, so…Read more...