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Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk is taking legal action against Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida student who tracks his private plane and publishes his flight information on social media under the @ElonJet banner.Read more...

Facebook and its parent company Meta are being sued for allegedly allowing toxic, violence-inciting content to flourish in communities in Ethiopia, where a civil war has left hundreds of thousands dead in recent years.Read more...

Remember that big Henry Cavill Superman comeback we were all ready for? The one teased at the end of Black Adam and then confirmed by Cavill himself? Well, it’s not happening. Instead, a new Superman film will focus on a younger version of the character, which James Gunn himself is writing.Read more...

The romantic dramedy between the gods will be heating up in season three of Lore Olympus. io9 chatted with creator and Eisner winner Rachel Smythe about what’s next for the popular Webtoon weekly appointment release that leads the charts in digital reading content and book lists.Read more...

By now you’ve likely heard the news that many of HBO Max’s original titles—including Westworld and The Nevers, as well as two more genre shows just added to that list, Raised by Wolves and The Time Traveler’s Wife—will soon be leaving the streamer and shifting elsewhere. Now we have a slightly better idea of where…Read more...

There’s been a lot of James Cameron in the headlines lately, all due to the fact that maybe the most James Cameron movie ever is about to hit theaters. Avatar: The Way of Water emphasizes so many things the filmmaker is known for, including cutting-edge special effects, high-stakes action, the idea that a sequel can…Read more...

The film that kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe and subsequently launched a million takes about comic book movies destroying cinema is getting a little respect. On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced the 25 movies that will be added to National Film Registry and Iron Man has been chosen as a…Read more...

While I’m not as voracious a reader as I used to be, novels were my first entry into fantasy and science fiction and remain my favorite way to escape into another world. This past year had an incredible array of wonderful books published, and I’m delighted to share some of my favorites from 2022.

There’s no getting around it. Elon Musk is a business genius. Show the man a box, and he’ll think outside of it. The CEO scared away all of Twitter’s advertisers, so lately, he’s been trying to come up with a way for his company to make money.Read more...

There’s a new bill coming to Congress to deal with crypto, and this one’s not pulling many punches on the entire crypto ecosystem.Read more...

Where Willow the movie ended, the fourth episode of the show began. Nockmaar. Castle of the evil Queen Bavmorda. The place where Willow, Sorsha, and Raziel saved Elora Danon and thought they’d put an end to evil. Well, evil is coming back in the person of a possessed young prince, and the castle is ready for it.Read more...

Whatever your feelings are about wielding an iPhone, you can’t ignore the fact that calling for help via satellite connection is a genuinely helpful safety feature, and one that we’re starting to think everyone should have. That’s because we keep hearing about people getting saved thanks to their new phone.

Meta’s Oversight Board restored a video of the Nigeria church attack on Wednesday showing motionless bodies on the floor, covered in blood. The video, shared on Instagram, had ultimately been removed because the hashtags the user added could be portrayed as glorifying the attack and minimizing the suffering the people…Read more...

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund provides a frightening preview of what’s to come in the wake of Roe v Wade being effectively struck down. It shows that infant and maternal health care outcomes, including mortality rates, were already worse in U.S. states where abortion services were more restricted prior to…Read more...

In America, your 18th birthday is marked (usually) by receiving the right to vote. In Hulu’s upcoming TV series Extraordinary, people receive a miscellaneous superpower—with the exception of Jen (Máiréad Tyers), who’s managed to make it to 25 without discovering what ability she received, if any. But this Britcom…Read more...

The tiny Hakuto-R lunar spacecraft and lander is currently en route to the Moon, but it managed to capture this stellar view of Earth, in what is an encouraging start to the private Japanese mission.Read more...

Gods will be killed on Prime Video. That’s where Kratos and Atreus, the stars of the popular God of War video game franchise, will soon hang their weapons as Sony and Amazon have announced a live-action TV show based on the series is on the way. The news was first teased back in March but now it’s official.

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission concluded with Orion’s immaculate splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Seemingly a billion years—and most assuredly a few billion dollars—in the making, the mission ended far too quickly for space junkies like me. But in those short few weeks, it managed to nail all its primary…Read more...

The covid-19 pandemic caused far more death and destruction in its first two years than official numbers indicate, a new study from the World Health Organization has found. The authors estimate that there were about 15 million excess deaths linked to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, with a likely majority of these…Read more...

New research finds Russian groups targeted former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social during the 2022 midterm elections. The report, conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, found that Russian groups have moved on from Facebook and Twitter, where they are largely blocked, to…Read more...

The success this year of powerful new generative artificial intelligence models like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, have laid the groundwork for a new era of AI tech set to explode even further in 2023. Google, though equipped with its own powerful (but definitely not sentient) LaMDA AI chatbot…Read more...

Fun fact: The Ghostface mask, best known as the headwear of whoever decided to kill people in the various Scream movies, was created several years before the first Scream debuted in 1996. So it’s entirely plausible that a multitude of people on a subway car would be wearing Ghostface masks on what I have to assume is…Read more...

YouTube wants you to stop being mean. As YouTube comments continue to serve as a place to harbor negativity and bad tempers, the platform is rolling out a way to let you know if your comment is too rude.

I have never been more quickly sold on anything in my life than watching Adam Driver pick up a sci-fi assault rifle, pointing it at a T.Rex, and opening fire.

Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey has not had it easy the past few weeks. After being hounded on the internet by mobs of Elon Musk fans wanting his blood for what’s been presented in the so-called “Twitter Files,” Dorsey finally came out late Tuesday not to apologize for banning former President Donald Trump,…Read more...

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania producer Stephen Broussard teases the stakes of the film. Warrior Nun is no more at Netflix. Plus, you’ll be waiting a while for Marvel to return to Echo. Spoilers get!

Prepare to level up at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023 with the opening of Super Nintendo World on February 17. The video game-inspired land finally makes its United States debut after the opening of the first Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan back in 2021, and in advance of the release of …Read more...

Twitter has banned @ElonJet, the popular bot account that tracked CEO Elon Musk’s plane, days after the account’s owner accused the social media platform of shadowbanning it.Read more...

ChatGPT, the machine-learning fueled chatbot, has been widely acclaimed for its ability to interact with users and generate “human-like” text. Since its launch by OpenAI on Nov. 30, more than a million people have signed up to use the program, marveling at its talent for spinning up short stories, rap lyrics,…Read more...

J.M. Smucker Co. has issued a warning against a small business in Minnesota that’s selling peanut butter and jelly sandwiches without a crust, according to a new report from the Star Tribune. The food giant alleges a crustless sandwich called Gallant Tiger infringes on the trademark protections of its Uncrustables…Read more...

Patty Jenkins has been in the news a lot over the last few months. First with the removal of her Star Wars movie, Rogue Squadron, from Disney’s schedule, and then the even more shocking news that Wonder Woman 3 had been canceled by DC.Read more...

If you’re one of the nearly 5,000 backers of the 2017 smash-hit board game Gloomhaven—or one of the more than 83,000 backers of its sequel, Frosthaven—you should probably be aware that the tabletop board game is moving to, uh, a different table, I guess. Game designer Isaac Childres has announced Gloomhaven will soon…Read more...

The legendary figurehead of Looney Tunes, the one and only Bugs Bunny, just celebrated 80 years—and he’s just received his first Emmy. Bugs’ current voice performer, Filipino Canadian and proud animation fanboy Eric Bauza, won the Children’s and Family Emmy Award for “Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated…Read more...

The latest trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is jam-packed with Spider-People—but don’t worry, there are more. In addition to the awesome, emotional trailer for the highly anticipated sequel, Sony released a few concept images of other characters coming to the multiverse who are not in the trailer, and…Read more...

A large winter storm hit the western U.S. this weekend and is expected to continue its icy tirade across the rest of the nation, bringing blizzards, tornadoes, and flooding along with it.

If odd digital interpretations of classic movie posters and strangely sexual selfie photo collages on Instagram still haven’t convinced you of generative artificial intelligence’s merits, maybe saving a few bucks will. That’s part of the idea behind a new ChatGPT chatbot from the company DoNotPay, which it says can…Read more...

After traveling more than 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) on an historic journey to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday following its near-perfect test flight.Read more...

Researchers working with a microphone aboard the Perseverance rover have managed to record sounds of a passing dust devil. The audio data was enough for them to determine the physical characteristics of the Martian whirlwind, which crossed right over the NASA rover.Read more...

If you watched The Nevers, HBO’s 2021 drama about women in Victorian London who suddenly manifest superpowers, there’s likely part of you still wondering if we’d ever get the promised second half of the season—with, like, some follow-through all the batshit stuff that happened in the finale. The answer is here, and…Read more...

“Does this spark joy?” So asked the famed Japanese consultant Marie Kondo as a way of thinking about decluttering crowded living spaces. The best way to know what “sparks joy,” Kondo said, is to feel the item in your hand, and then know whether you feel uplifted just by that simple act.Read more...

Apple Watch and iPhone users, it’s update day. The iOS 16.2 update is currently rolling out to the iPhone 14 and all other compatible devices. The update includes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud data like Notes and Photos, just as Apple teased at WWDC earlier in the year. Apple says the encryption applies to 23…Read more...

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Airbnb announced on Tuesday it has removed nearly 4,000 accounts globally from its platform this year, after finding those users had violated its non-discrimination policy. The report was published by Project Lighthouse, an initiative Airbnb launched in 2020, and found that the number of accounts removed decreased…Read more...

The new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer is here, and Miles Morales’ multiverse is about to get so much bigger and more dangerous. But what secrets can we find alongside many, many, many Spider-People in this trailer? Let’s take a closer look.Read more...

As more and more states across the country pile on to ban TikTok from state-owned devices, Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida along with Republican Representative Mike Gallagher from Wisconsin and Democrat Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois have taken the move to the next level by proposing a…Read more...

Our phones are now pretty essential when it comes to getting through everyday life—so it can be disconcerting when one of these ever-present pocket companions refuses to charge up as normal. It’s a common problem, and it’s one that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. But before you turn your handset over to the…Read more...

An experimental mRNA cancer-fighting vaccine jointly developed by Moderna and Merck has reportedly succeeded in a Phase II trial. According to the companies, melanoma survivors who received the vaccine in combination with immunotherapy were 44% less likely to have their cancer return or to die than those who only took…Read more...

Meta is introducing a new counter-terrorism tool. The news comes as the company will become chair of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)’s Operating Board next month. The GIFCT was founded by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017 and has since become a non-governmental organization (NGO)…Read more...

Experience your own Amblin cinematic adventure at the Great Movie Escape at Universal Orlando Resort. io9 was invited to try out the new interactive escape rooms inspired by Jurassic World and Back to the Future at CityWalk and chat with Universal Creative about its collaboration with two of Universal Pictures’…Read more...

Twitter may be the one place online where you might be seeing fewer ads in the future—assuming you cough up $8 a month. Elon Musk tweeted late Monday that Twitter Blue subscribers “will have half the number of ads,” and said the company will offer an even more expensive tier for the site that’s totally ad-free in…Read more...