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After a very slight title announcement video in April, we haven’t heard much about the new, and long-awaited, Dungeons & Dragons movie. Sure we’re had casting announcements out the wazoo but the plot has been pretty much under wraps. And now? Straight from San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve gotten a trailer.

January 6, 2021 will live in infamy as the day that right-wing protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol building under the false pretense that the 2020 election was stolen from lame duck president Donald Trump. While the investigations into the attack by a House committee started nearly a year ago, they’re continuing to…Read more...

The Mars Express Orbiter recently imaged a canyon system on the Red Planet that is nearly 10 times longer, 20 times wider, and five times deeper than Earth’s Grand Canyon.Read more...

Everybody remembers Neopets, right? The company that lets you create and take care of digital animals has been a mainstay of teen fun since it launched in 1999. Well, I hate to break it to you, but a hacker recently spat on your childhood nostalgia by breaking into the company’s database and stealing data on millions…Read more...

If big business mergers were a game of Pac-Man, where every pellet was a small company and each power pellet was a juicy merger, then tech companies would be playing a perfect game. In this admittedly overstretched metaphor, some U.S. regulators are desperately trying to pull the arcade cabinet’s chord, but it’s not…Read more...

Just as the Hilton Bayfront was set to open its doors to San Diego Comic Con attendees, special guests, and press, the workers at the hotel set up a picket line in front of the hotel. The strike only lasted a few hours, proving once again that collective action, worker solidarity, and excellent timing will often force…Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con can be a very trying experience. So what better way to deal with it than to sever your memory of it from the rest of your well-being? Thankfully you can do just that, hypothetically of course, at Apple TV+’s Severance activation located at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA.Read more...

A Dutch company that claims it can help businesses “turn [their] CO2 into forests” using data, drones, and other tech is responsible for sparking a wildfire in Spain this week that has already burned tens of thousands of acres and caused 2,000 people to evacuate.Read more...

The only thing constant is change, and the same is true for Facebook’s interface. Meta announced a massive overhaul to the social media’s app interface that more closely resembles TikTok (but they’ll probably never say that).

Among Android fans, the Pixel A-series has been a relative hit for Google. Whenever I step into Android spaces, I hear nothing but praise for the company’s mid-range smartphone. I know several “extremely tech-y” people in my life who have lived with the A-series for years, perfectly satisfied with what’s in their…Read more...

The Space Launch System has yet to launch, but NASA is already thinking about future versions of its mega Moon rocket. An upgraded version of the SLS rocket booster is being tested later today, and you can catch the big blast live right here.Read more...

Social media and reality star Kylie Jenner recently posted what she probably thought was a romantic photo of herself and her partner, Travis Scott, embracing. The black-and-white photo on Instagram shows the two celebrities standing between two private jets with the caption, “you wanna take mine or yours?”Read more...

In an announcement that coincides with San Diego Comic Con, Disney+ has announced that Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan will be available to stream on Disney+ starting July 22. The inclusion of these three films comes with a reminder in the press release that parents can adjust their parental controls to help curate…Read more...

With Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon set to roar onto HBO Max in just one short month, the hype machine was on full, fiery blast at San Diego Comic-Con. io9 got a chance to check out “House of the Dragon: The Dragon’s Den,” an activation set up across the street from the convention center. Here’s what we…Read more...

There are good reasons to raise an eyebrow about smartwatches designed for kids, given how much time they already spend starting at screens. But the Mellow Watch, which comes complete with contactless payment abilities, makes a strong case for itself as a tool to help kids not only earn money, but spend it responsibly…Read more...

Alan Grant had the kind of comics career that quickly becomes legendary. He started in the 60s, writing romance comics. Later, he teamed up with John Wagner to work on Tarzan and 2000 AD for IPC comics. After working on numerous horror/sci-fi titles, Grant and Wagner co-wrote Judge Dredd, which Grant worked on…Read more...

U.S. President Joe Biden has officially tested positive for covid-19.Read more...

A powerful rocket is set to blast off from Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on a mission to expand China’s first space station. Similar to previous launches of the Long March 5B, however, the rocket could perform a dangerous uncontrolled reentry on its return.Read more...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, infamous for making grand promises and not following through on them, announced Thursday that the company would be releasing its monstruous Cybertruck in the middle of 2023. Knowing Musk, the date could be something he just threw out on the spot. Yet, it might also be true, in which case, may God…Read more...

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The easiest way to knock a drone that poses a safety or security threat out of the sky is to hinder the wireless communications between the aircraft and those at its controls. But signal jammers that target radio frequency communications are useless against a new type of drone control system that uses laser beams…Read more...

If you happen to be in San Diego this weekend for a certain pop culture jamboree, odds are all that panel-going and toy-stalking will make you work up an appetite... for Dragon Brew? Sure, why not. Quench your thirst with io9 at the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves “Tavern Experience.”

A triumvirate of Senate Democrats wants you to smoke ‘em If you got ‘em. Legally, that is.Read more...

No job is safe in the crypto industry right now as long as the entire market lingers in the current crypto winter.Read more...

A Russian cosmonaut and a European astronaut aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to perform a spacewalk today at 10:00 a.m. ET. The duo will continue the installation of a robotic arm on the station that’s attached to a Russian module. You can catch the action live right here.

Luke Evans join’s Netflix’s new imagining of A Christmas Carol. Jeepers Creepers returns. Plus, another new look at The Munsters, the Quiet Place prequel gets a new release date, and what’s coming on What We Do in the Shadows. Spoilers, away!

There once was a time when conspiracy theories were both relatively harmless and easy to laugh at. Area 51, the Loch Ness Monster, and the faked Moon landing are some of the sillier theories that have invaded pop culture. One location with its own conspiracy lore is the Denver International Airport, which is home to a…Read more...

Experts from some of the nation’s leading civil and digital rights organizations say a report published by Meta last week, presented as an exhaustive review of its impact on human rights, in reality offers “zero” information about its actual impact on the world. The first Meta Human Rights Report should be viewed…Read more...

Microsoft has cut an unspecified number of job openings, mirroring the broader tech sector as the industry braces for a slowdown in the economy, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Cuts affected parts of the company like the Azure cloud division and security software, but Microsoft has declined to put a…Read more...

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Fate has course corrected to give Christina Ricci the role of Harley Quinn, a casting that makes perfect sense for Spotify and DC Comics’ upcoming podcast Harley Quinn & The Joker. The Addams Family and Yellowjackets icon will bring her sweetly creepy and chaotic energy to Harls in a new story that will refocus the…Read more...

It’s an ambitious undertaking to serialize any vampire-related lore for television, and Showtime’s take on Let the Right One In looks up for the challenge. In the first images released exclusively on Entertainment Weekly, we get our first look and details on the upcoming series, which is based on the John Ajvide…Read more...

Unpatched security flaws in a GPS tracking system produced in China could have dire, “life threatening” implications, according to the researchers who discovered them. In short: hackers could track your car in real-time and even disable it while it’s still moving, the research suggests.Read more...

Tesla released its 2022 Q2 earnings Wednesday and the results are mixed: Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker reported $2.3 billion in second-quarter profit, down from a record $3.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022. That’s the company’s first sequential decline in profits in over a year.Read more...

NASA is already shifting attention to its next telescope project: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Yesterday, NASA announced that SpaceX has been contracted to provide launch services for the Roman Space Telescope, which is set to blast off in October 2026.

Mojang Studios, the makers of the ever-popular Minecraft, is taking a page from the old U.S. anti-drugs playbook, though it seems “Just Say No” seems to work much better for blockchain-based money making schemes than it ever did for narcotics.Read more...

There’s something about mushrooms and fungi that’s inherently creepy. They can grow just about anywhere, feed on anything, and wiggle their weird little mycelia into the cracks, corners, and crannies of any house, home, or body. It makes for very good horror. I’m excited to show you.

Update: President Biden did not, in fact, issue a climate emergency declaration today. Instead, he announced a much less robust set of climate-adjacent executive actions. These include directives to boost offshore wind including the first-ever wind project in the Gulf of Mexico (which has already been indicated as a…Read more...

The new MacBook Air is an excellent laptop, but one considerable shortcoming might dissuade power users from purchasing Apple’s least expensive notebook. If you’ve been keeping tabs on the latest model, then you know the limitation I’m referring to: heat management. Under a heavy workload, the fanless MacBook Air with…Read more...

Deadline reports that Simon McQuoid will return to direct the Mortal Kombat sequel, which does not currently have a release date. The 2021 pandemic hit was McQuoid’s first feature film after a career spent working on video games and directing commercials for ad agencies. HBO used the film to gauge audience’s interest…Read more...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg will have to provide testimony to a federal court to discuss their alleged involvement in the company’s notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal, over half a decade since it first captured the world’s attention.Read more...

With midterm elections less than four months away, there’s more than a little concern growing about what may come before the first ballot boxes creak open. Sure, there are a few major topics that are driving the conversation leading into November. Sure, we still don’t know how much the “Big Lie” will spur voters one…Read more...

Heatwaves are roasting the entire northern hemisphere this week.Read more...

I hope you aren’t tired of Everything Everywhere All At Once yet (I’m not!) but we’ve got good news. A24's record-breaking film is back, bigger, weirder, and more absurd than ever. The Daniels’ sophomore film returns to theaters on July 29, this time including 8 minutes of unreleased footage in an expanded cut of the …Read more...

When Doctor Who returned in 2005, alongside it came a support show unlike anything else at the time: Doctor Who Confidential, an extensive weekly, behind-the-scenes breakdown of how the episode you just watched got made. Although Confidential ultimately fell by the wayside, a new report suggests its spirit might live…Read more...

An expedition to map and survey a little-understood region of the Atlantic Ocean is underway this week. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and partner groups are sending a two-part, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) on a series of deep ocean dives as part of a mission called “Voyage to…Read more...

Speaking to reporters earlier today, NASA officials outlined three potential dates for the inaugural launch of the space agency’s Space Launch System (SLS), the earliest of which could happen on August 29.Read more...

From writer-director James Bird comes Wifelike, a sexy sci-fi thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Good Neighbor, The 12th Man) and Elena Kampouris (Sacred Lies, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2). The trailer seems suitably strange, with Kampouris affecting some Stepford Wives/Ex-Machina android posing and…Read more...

It’s a fact that the “Facebook” name has become radioactive because the company did all sorts of bad things (Facebook denies doing some of the bad things and is very sorry about the others). Facebook likely realized this, too, and thus surprised no one when it changed its name to Meta last year, with the official line…Read more...

It’s summertime in the Global North, which already comes with increased temperatures. But as heatwaves sweep across different parts of the globe, heightened temperatures are wreaking havoc across the world.