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After some wait, Black Mirror is coming back with a new season, according to Variety. The three-year gap in between seasons is largely due to creator Charlie Brooker leaving House of Tomorrow, their production company and the group that held the rights to the Black Mirror franchise. As companies were bought and sold…Read more...

A new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission confirms that Former President Donald Trump will almost certainly be back on Twitter. That is, assuming his lifetime ban is lifted, and assuming the Elon Musk deal actually goes through.

Rocket Lab did something earlier this month that had never been done before: catch a falling booster rocket with a helicopter. The private aerospace company has released new, adrenaline-pumping footage of this momentous achievement.

The first footage from Prey, the next Predator movie, doesn’t actually feature a Predator. Or, really, much of anything at all—but it does provide an immediate, arresting look at its central hook: what if a Predator came to Earth hundreds of years into the past instead of a futuristic or contemporary setting?

Sam Claflin has joined Colm McCarthy’s new supernatural thriller. Courtney Cox is excited for her latest return to Scream. Sony’s Twisted Metal TV show recruits another star. Plus, Riverdale’s getting weird again, and we know what’s coming on the Halo finale. Spoilers now!

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Have you seen those photos on social media featuring stomach-churning Burger King items from Germany? Believe it or not, the photos are real, but there’s one big catch: All of the foods being advertised were available for precisely one day at just one location in Berlin. They’re not regular items sold at Burger King…Read more...

Though the series has had its fair share of ups and downs in previous seasons, the hype for Stranger Things’ upcoming fourth season, or at the least the first part of it, is very real. With some of the cast having left Hawkins, Indiana for California or wound up mysteriously in Russia, it’s only matter of time before …Read more...

The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2023 will see David Tennant and Catherine Tate return as the 10th Doctor and Donna Noble.

It’s been some time since we checked on Paramount’s Halo show. When it first premiered, we thought it was an interesting, strange, interestingly strange adaptation of the Xbox shooter franchise that had some potential, but it’s understandably rubbing a lot of folks in a couple of different ways. The biggest shakeup…Read more...

The internet loves itself some shonen anime, and of the many that are currently out right now, Mob Psycho 100 may be in the upper tier. Studio Bones’ adaptation of creator ONE’s (One-Punch Man) action-comedy series was last on the air in 2019, and we learned late last year that a third season was officially in…Read more...

For those who watch network TV, the month of May is typically when we learn what new shows are arriving in the fall, what shows are coming back for a future season, and what gets cancelled. If you watch anything on The CW, this May has been a particular rough one, as the network behind the Arrowverse, Vampire Diaries …Read more...

Picture this: you’re sitting at home, exhausted after a long day at work. You turn on your favorite show—a mid-tier 90's sitcom—hoping that the din of laugh tracks and witty banter helps lull you into some kind of relaxation, and it does! At least at first, before it gets suddenly interrupted by an X-rated film. Or…Read more...

Earlier in the week, game developer Warner Bros. Montreal revealed a new look at their upcoming superhero action-RPG, Gotham Knights. Where the game’s debut back in 2020 featured footage focusing on Tim Drake’s Robin and Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl, this 13-minute presentation was all about the game’s other two leads,…Read more...

Marvel’s TV enterprise has grown just a little bit smaller, as their animated series MODOK won’t be coming back for a second season. The stop-motion show starred Patton Oswalt as the titular bigheaded Marvel baddie in a comedy series about him trying to balance his somewhat normal life as a suburban family man in the…Read more...

Ever since 2014's Into the Spider-Verse event brought together Peter Parker’s Spider-Man and his other alternate universe webswingers from across the Marvel multiverse, the web warriors have been frequently hanging out with one another in the comics. 2018 saw the Spider-Geddon event to coincide with the then-upcoming …Read more...

For fans of the CW’s original programming, it’s a been rough couple of days. Not only have fan favorites like Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman been abruptly canceled, earlier this week the network bid farewell to other series including Naomi, Charmed, and Roswell, New Mexico. There’ll still be some original content…Read more...

Perhaps you’ve been thinking to yourself that you could do with a supernatural series to watch this summer. Maybe even one that’s gay, explicitly so, rather than just dancing around it for years on end. If that’s the case, then Netflix has got you covered with First Kill, a supernatural series about two teens falling…Read more...

From the first examples of Eadweard Muybridge’s Horse in Motion and on through the history of motion pictures, we have subjected ourselves to the illusion that a stream of pictures moving at a fast rate is a display in motion. Film is where mechanics, psychology, and art collide.

Netflix’s stock price fell so fast last month it made the Wile E. Coyote whistle sound effect of a bomb plummeting to earth.

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest nerdy toy news on the internet. This week, Hot Toys has come to bargain with the almost-mandated “New Marvel Movie Action Figure,” Star Wars Celebration exclusives heat up in the cutest manner, and Lego’s latest architecture set takes us to ancient Egypt.…Read more...

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After moving to a new home—a cluster of apartment towers surrounded by forests, quieter than usual thanks to the summer holidays—bored young Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum) welcomes friendship with a similarly aged neighbor, Ben (Sam Ashraf). But The Innocents, a brutal yet elegant investigation into the extremes of…Read more...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover took a photo of a Lovecraftian feature on the surface of Mars last week: a seemingly rectangular and shadowy opening in the planet’s exposed rock that looks as if it leads into the Martian underground.Read more...

There’s “green energy” and then there’s truly GREEN energy, or rather, blue-green energy. A colorful colony of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, have successfully powered a computer microprocessor for longer than six months, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Energy &…Read more...

It is a strange feeling to get excited about a show I technically don’t care about. Or at least I shouldn’t. Star Trek is a franchise that I’ve never been particularly into, and what I know about it has mainly been gleaned by osmosis during 20 years of covering nerd news. It was just enough to make me consider jumping…Read more...

Following hot on the heels of leaks from trusted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that claim Apple will finally be ditching its proprietary Lightning connector for the more widely supported USB-C standard in future iPhones, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is adding some credibility of his own to the rumor. Earlier today, he reported that…Read more...

Wildfires are brutal out here. So much so that Oregon, a historically temperate state that is seeing rapidly rising temperatures, is creating laws to protect its workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke.

Hard to believe, but it’s been nearly two and a half years since Boeing’s first botched test of its Starliner CST-100 spacecraft. Yep, it’s been a minute, so here’s a recap of the past 28 tumultuous months, and how Boeing might finally make good on providing a viable commercial crew vehicle for NASA.Read more...

In a medium where long-lasting superhero characters have rollercoaster ups and downs over their careers, it’s a rare few that have had some downs quite like the Scarlet Witch. Even ascendant as part of the vanguard in the Marvel movieverse’s fourth phase, her latest appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of…Read more...

Google I/O was all the gadget world was talking about this week, but can you blame us? The company came out of the woodwork with its new Pixel lineup. Google laid out its plans for the Pixel 6a, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, Pixel Buds Pro, and even teased the Pixel tablet. There’s so much good Pixel stuff to sink your teeth…Read more...

Coming soon to Batuu is a new opportunity to take up a career in (pretend) mercenary work through the upgraded version of Disney Parks’ MagicBand. And it’s about time, as the roll out on immersive experiences at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has definitely hit a number of delays along with shifts to premium experiences…Read more...

In a rare nugget of climate-related good news, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday that it is canceling three offshore oil and gas drilling lease sales: one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and the other two in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the near future, the moon has become home to an idyllic community populated by people who’ve fled a dying Earth and are trying to figure out the future of the human race. But all is not as it seems in Moonhaven—also the name of AMC+’s new summer sci-fi series. io9 has the exclusive teaser debut below!

The mother of a 10-year-old daughter who died last year is suing TikTok and its parent company ByteDance over allegations the company’s algorithm promoted a so-called “Blackout Challenge” to the child’s feed.Read more...

The device that helped turn Apple into a $3 trillion company (a milestone it passed earlier this year) is officially dead, as the last iteration of the iPod, the iPod Touch, was laid to rest earlier this week. But for those with more discerning ears who refuse to enjoy their music through a smartphone, rest assured…Read more...

Here’s something spooky: the day io9 got an email inviting us to debut the new trailer for Joshua Grannell’s 2010 horror-comedy cult classic All About Evil, I just so happened to be wearing my “Peaches Christ Is My Homegirl” sweatshirt—Peaches Christ being Grannell’s horror-loving drag alter ego. The movie gods…Read more...

Google I/O 2022 was much shorter this year. Rather than three full days of virtual sessions and talks, Google opted for two days for its developer conference, with most announcements happening within the two hours of its opening keynote. The company walked us through much of what it’s been working on behind the…Read more...

Although humans can fly with the help of copious engineering, Mother Nature has already come up with much simpler ways to soar, like the way a maple tree’s spinning seeds scatter by floating on the wind like unpowered helicopters. It’s a beautifully efficient design, and one that inspired this s…Read more...

Summer movies make their fully triumphant return in 2022—but don’t forget about your TV, which took care of you when you couldn’t leave the house. This summer brings new seasons of Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and more, plus some red-hot debuts from some of nerd-dom’s biggest franchises.Read more...

A fire in Laguna Niguel, California, has burned through 200 acres and several multimillion-dollar homes since it started on May 11. The cause of the Coastal Fire, which is burning just a few miles southeast of Laguna Beach, has yet to be determined.Read more...

Few things are worse than being invited to a destination wedding, but U-Boat Worx, a company known for its private submarines that seem perfect for Bond villains, has plans to build a massive sub designed specifically for hosting large parties under water, like a destination wedding that could actually be kind of fun.Read more...

Following efforts to ban the use of facial recognition technology by authorities, it seems that some cities are having second thoughts amidst an increase in their crime rate. Some U.S. states and cities are now moving to eliminate their ban on facial recognition including Virginia, California, and New Orleans, …Read more...

Maybe there’s a couple of flips, too, because it wouldn’t be a new Kamen Rider movie from a man who absolutely loves Kamen Rider without some cool flips.

Four Democratic congressional representatives sent letters Thursday to the heads of the biggest social media companies asking them to create an archive of content coming out of Ukraine that can document Russian war crimes.Read more...

A few members of the Obi-Wan Kenobi cast and crew appeared in London, England for a press call, and while the pictures are mostly just two men (Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor) staring straight ahead and looking drab in comparison to Moses Ingram, we still managed to find a couple gems to we wanted to share. (You…Read more...

It’s not all bad news at the CW, however, as the Supernatural prequel and Gotham Knights get series pick ups. The Enterprise has transporter trouble in a new clip from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Plus, Alan Wake is heading to AMC, and get a new look at a poster for Stranger Things season 4. Spoilers away!

In terms of productivity and convenience, having more than one way to do something—archive an email, take a screenshot, search the web—is usually better than having a single method. You can pick whichever one suits you best, or even jump between these approaches as situations change.

Do Kwon, the founder of the cryptocurrency Luna and the stablecoin TerraUSD, has reportedly been in contact with police after a possible investor in the coin “trespassed” at his home, according to a new report from South Korea’s largest newspaper, The Chosun Ilbo. Crypto News reports the investor lost roughly $1.56…Read more...