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Elon Musk banned at least nine journalists from Twitter on Thursday night in a mass purge by arguably the pettiest man on the planet. And while the journalists haven’t been told what caused the bans, many had tweeted about the Twitter account that tracked Elon’s private jet using publicly available information.

Henry Cavill’s certainly had an up-and-down-and-up-and-oh-my-god few months, but the former Superman and about-to-be-former Witcher star is about to land another dream role: the lead in a series adaptation of the world of Warhammer 40,000.

Just off the hustle and bustle of the bright lights on the Las Vegas Strip is a destination for the experiential-themed adventure seeker and drinker. Lost Spirits, a rum distillery inspired in part by Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, can be found at Area 15, an array of eclectic dining and interactive holes…Read more...

December 16, 1997 saw the broadcast of the 38th episode of the legendary Pokémon anime in Japan—and the last time it was ever broadcast at all, thanks to a scene that changed broadcast TV in the country for a generation.

Over the last 24 hours, fans of ex-President Donald Trump have sat huddled in their chairs, waiting with bated breath for a supposed announcement the once tweeter-in-chief promised would blow their socks off. He posted a video to his Truth Social page showing an image of him in a kind of superhero garb, sporting pecs…Read more...

George A. Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead is one of the most influential movies ever, though these days its reverberations are most often felt in unrelated works that continue to explore the zombie-powered ideas it popularized. A new project from an exciting new director, however, will have a more direct link…Read more...

The Zhuque-2 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Wednesday, leaving behind an unusual purplish trail—a product of its unique methane fuel. The rocket managed to take flight, but it failed to reach orbit and deliver the 14 satellites that were on board.Read more...

There’s nothing more annoying than a moviegoer who can’t stay off their phone—and there’s nothing more terrifying than M3GAN, title star of next year’s killer-doll sci-fi horror tale, which is already at the top of our must-see list for 2023. What happens when these two antagonists meet? Imminent bloodbath!Read more...

Spotify is one of the premiere music services of the 21st century, and modern music consumption favors streaming over nearly all formats. In 2021, Spotify unveiled the Billions Club, which consists of every song that has accrued at least one billion streams on the platform since their respective date of upload. So…Read more...

Dell, one of the world’s major PC makers, is working on bringing more user-friendly repairability to its laptops. It teased us last year with an early version of Concept Luna, which promised to use fewer screws and more sustainable materials in its build. Now that concept build is headed toward full modularity.

The latest image from NASA’s Juno mission reveals Jupiter’s moon Io in infrared, showing the volcanic hotspots that pepper its surface and fuel Jupiter’s auroras.

Despite the fact James Cameron’s original Avatar is the highest-grossing film of all time, there’s a good chance you haven’t seen it in a while. It’s a film many, many of us saw upon release, and even a good amount of people saw earlier this year for the re-release, but it’s not on TV all that much and, as a result,…Read more...

An unlucky kitten bite appears to have led to a Danish man’s death four years later. He reportedly contracted a serious infection following the bite that hospitalized him for a month, caused the amputation of his finger, and left him in ever-declining health. The man’s family disclosed his recent death in hopes of…Read more...

In a world where cinematic adaptations of video games are still having a tough time, the announcement that Hideo Kojima’s ambitious, bizarre 2019 game Death Stranding will be turned into a movie from Barbarian executive producer Alex Lebovici is baffling. Unless you think audiences are ready for a post-apocalyptic…Read more...

Some of Google’s biggest rivals are coming together in a kind of rogues gallery with the hopes of creating new open source services to knock Google Maps from its mapping throne.Read more...

History recalls 1980s Argentina as a time of unease and tragedy exacerbated by power-mad leaders. Cristian Ponce’s unsettling indie History of the Occult revisits that tumultuous time and asks: what if the government was doing it all in the name of black magic?

As the news of FTX’s collapse keeps rolling in, the twists keep coming. We’re now learning that one of the once wildly popular cryptocurrency exchange’s executives—Ryan Salame—turned on the company by tipping off Bahamian regulators about the potential of fraud according to recently unsealed court documents.Read more...

Long stints on the International Space Station take a toll on the human body, and it doesn’t help that the food up there is limited by what can be reasonably sent and stored in space. To improve conditions for astronauts, a team of scientists devised and tested a food plan specific to the space environment, resulting…Read more...

A team of researchers from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, have used a protein called talin, which functions as “the cell’s natural shock absorber,” to create a new shock-absorbing material capable of stopping projectiles traveling at supersonic speeds without destroying them in the process.Read more...

Last night James Gunn casually tweeted the shocking news that, just months after it was announced that Henry Cavill’s Superman was back in action, he now... isn’t. The hierarchy of power changing in the DC Universe, however, doesn’t mean one thing some fans are hoping: that the lack of Cavill’s DC return could mean a…Read more...

The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday it took down 48 internet domains and charged six people who allegedly offered cyberattack-for-hire services. The defendants are each charged with allegedly offering booter services and operating at least one website that offered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…Read more...

A powerful storm system that charged through the Western and Southern United States this week has left a particularly aggressive trail of destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi. At least three people are dead as the storm makes its way towards the East Coast. More than 50 tornadoes were reported across Oklahoma,…Read more...

Colorado wants to phase out gas-powered cars by 2050, but unlike trendsetting California, which announced that no new gas-powered car be sold there by 2035, Colorado wants more EVs on the road without a similar ban.Read more...

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A team of physicists determined that enigmatic ‘antinuclei’ can travel across the universe without being absorbed by the interstellar medium. The finding suggests we may be able to identify antimatter that is produced by dark matter in deep space.Read more...

Another year’s end is nearly upon us—we’ve almost made it to the next 12 months of trials and tribulations! But for now, the io9 staff is rejoicing at mostly getting through the last 12 months in one piece, thanks to a few of our favorite new characters of the year. Here’s who we want to thank for getting us through…Read more...

Although the latest film in the Terminator franchise, 2019's Dark Fate, appears to have recouped its $185 million budget, it didn’t exactly light the world on fire. Producer James Cameron, who originated the franchise and was heavily involved with the film, believes he knows why the movie bombed, and it’s because it…Read more...

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A Russian spacewalk was called off on Wednesday after a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS) started leaking coolant in low Earth orbit. For one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on board, that could mean their ride back to Earth is suddenly gone.Read more...

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Earlier this year, we got the excellent news that Naoya Matsumoto’s fantastic superhero monster manga Kaiju No. 8 would be getting its own anime, and now we know there’s going to be a hell of a team behind it.Read more...

While newly named Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to explore new ways to flesh out leakers from companies, the U.S. government’s been busy closing out a court case against actual Twitter spies. Now, according to NBC, a former Twitter employee convicted of exposing dissidents’ personal information on behalf of the…Read more...

The crypto exchange Binance, perhaps the last major crypto exchange standing after the FTX debacle, experienced a wave of withdrawals by spooked investors earlier this week to the tune of nearly $3.7 billion, according to blockchain analytics firm Nansen.Read more...

The past year brought us inspiring advances in medical and health science, from new insights into devastating diseases like multiple sclerosis and lupus to innovative treatments for hair loss and obesity. While some of these breakthroughs, like transplanting pig organs into people, are still far from becoming…Read more...

The tenth Saw movie expands its cast. City Hunter is heading to Netflix. A new animated Winnie the Pooh movie is on the way. Superman & Lois is looking for a new Lex Luthor. Plus, get a look at the final season of The Flash. To me, my spoilers!

Despite the growing popularity of e-note digital notepads over the past few years, the Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s first E Ink device with stylus support for annotating documents and taking notes. But instead of pulling ahead of the competition with an e-note device packed full of innovative features and functionality,…Read more...

Matter, the smart home standard that promises to unify us all, continues its slow and steady release across platforms. Google is the next to announce compatibility for its Nest devices and Android phones.

Unlike a TV you more or less just hang on a wall and start enjoying, a projector requires a bit more attention to get perfectly positioned, calibrated, and focused before the movie starts. XGIMI’s new MoGo 2 Pro will make some of those steps invisible to the user, so setup is easier and less obtrusive.Read more...

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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...