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It’s one thing to buy the merchandise for your favorite band or movie or game. It’s another thing to wear a tie flooded with bitcoin tokens.Read more...

The world has gotten a little mad for chips (the kind that go in your computers, not your stomach), and the U.S. wants to take a big piece of the semiconductor pie away from countries like China. But first, it has to pass a bill, so expect a lot of last-minute wrangling, sweating, mind changing, weird additions, and…Read more...

Saudi Arabia is developing a new city, 150-stories tall and built from scratch, that will serve as a semi-enclosed environment where people can live and work without ever stepping foot outside. And while the promotional videos released Monday are likely an attempt to give the development a utopian feel that recalls so…Read more...

After last year’s (understandably) lackluster showing, it felt like San Diego Comic-Con roared back to life in 2022. Although the con was certainly bolstered by Marvel Studios’ return and its decision to announce basically everything, so many trailers, announcements, and more were revealed over the last four days. So,…Read more...

What We Do in the Shadows closed out San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H programming Sunday with a preview of this week’s “Night Market” episode and a lively discussion among the cast and creative team of what to expect this season. Showrunner Paul Simms and writer Stefani Robinson teased that not only are we getting that …Read more...

Comic-Con’s first in-person event since 2019 is over, and we’re had so much news to sift through, trailers to watch, and cosplay to delight in. After all the hype is said and done, who came out the cream of the nerd crop in San Diego this weekend? Who got lost in the crowds and con-crud? Here’s our picks for the…Read more...

The Asian giant hornet, popularly known as the murder hornet, is getting a new moniker. This week, the Entomological Society of America announced that it will officially adopt the term “northern giant hornet” as the common name for Vespa mandarinia. The change was implemented to avoid the use of a potentially…Read more...

We’ve gotten our first look at Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and now it’s time to break down the trailer! Honestly, Marvel should just send me second-by-second frames at this point, but I’ve taken a million screenshots and I have a dozen wikis open, so let’s get into what we learned about the superhero sequel.

Elon Musk’s private space company broke its own record for most launches in a single calendar year—and 2022 isn’t even close to being over yet. The company completed its 32nd successful launch of the year, beating its 31 successful launches in 2021.

A new wildfire exploded in Mariposa County, California on Friday and quickly spread over the weekend. The damage caused by what is now being called the Oak Fire has shut off power for about 2,000 homes and businesses.Read more...

China’s space agency performed a successful launch of a Long March 5B rocket on Sunday, delivering a new module to its fledgling space station. Similar to previous launches, however, the rocket’s core stage remained in orbit and is now set to perform an uncontrolled reentry.Read more...

The call for climate action is coming from the inside the House. More than a dozen congressional staffers occupied the Washington D.C. office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer today, in a protest demanding that Congress pass policy to combat climate change. Less than an hour after the demonstration began,…Read more...

With the Ms. Marvel show on Disney+ bringing Kamala Khan to new audiences worldwide (and hopefully encouraging them to check out her comics), it has been a landmark moment for Muslim, Pakistani, and South Asian representation in popular media. Muslim and South Asian superheroes remain scarce across the landscape; Ms.…Read more...

You gotta hand it to some people for being impetuous even in the face of extraordinary odds. Imagine looking for a single hard drive amidst a literal heap of trash. Well, that’s been one UK man’s goal for nearly a decade after he accidentally lost the chance of being an early crypto millionaire by chucking the wrong…Read more...

The latest news from the parched West is unsurprising but still shockingly bad: One of the region’s most important rivers is running dry in places where water is usually plentiful. Following a period of incredibly hot days in July, a stretch of the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque, New Mexico is nothing more than a…Read more...

For students at a boarding school in Switzerland, the curriculum now includes extraterrestrial architecture. The school has installed a 23-foot-tall, 3D-printed prototype of a space habitat that was designed with SpaceX rockets in mind.

San Diego Comic-Con is over, but cosplay is forever! If you’re experiencing withdrawals now that Comic-Con has closed its doors for the year, we’ve got you covered with one last hit of cosplay awesomeness from the last day of the convention.

If there’s one thing we can trust Martin Shkreli to do, it’s revolutionize the healthcare industry. The disgraced pharmaceutical executive is now behind a Web3 based drug discovery platform called Druglike, that seeks to increase the accessibility of drug discovery through decentralized computing.

The 2022 San Diego Comic-Con was held in person last week for the first time since 2019, and exhibitors made up for the long time away with a huge number of new movie and TV show trailers. The big comic book movie news came when Marvel returned to Hall H and debuted trailers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and She…Read more...

Years ago, I wouldn’t consider a mid-range smartphone, because I knew the concessions I’d have to make. It used to be that you could only find one flagship-level feature on a smartphone under the $500 price point. Fortunately, things have grown exponentially in the past five years.

Tech and manufacturing workers will once again be barred from leaving their employers’ facilities for a period of time in a Chinese city, in an attempt to keep production going, while stymying the spread of covid-19, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The newest round of lockdowns is in Shenzhen, where the…Read more...

The batteries in your mobile devices continue to be disappointingly limiting, but at least the technology in chargers continues to rapidly evolve so you can quickly top up your gear when you find a power outlet. Anker’s new GaNPrime chargers now promise up to 150W of power delivery from a relatively small brick,…Read more...

Here’s a life lesson I never thought I’d write about: Beware of robots when playing chess. Seriously. Take it from one 7-year-old chess player in Moscow, who learned (the hard way) that robot chess players can get testy and lash out.Read more...

Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie has been receiving a steady drip feed of information in recent years. This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con gave us our first extensive look at the film, which stars Chris Pine as a bard leading an adventuring party who find themselves tasked with saving the world…Read more...

It’s one of the most horrifying representations of the 9/11 terror attacks, and somebody thought it could make them a quick buck. Users on GameStop’s fledgling NFT marketplace were flabbergasted over the weekend when they saw somebody was selling a non-fungible token evoking The Falling Man, a photo of a man jumping…Read more...

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2022 may be remembered as a turning point for social media regulation, or maybe more aptly, failed social media regulation. Though Texas and Florida managed to dominate headlines recently for their constitutionally questionable deplatforming laws, they’re far from the only states trying to get creative with managing…Read more...

David Warner, a British acting icon who’s genre roles are almost innumerable to count, has passed away at the age of 80. He passed from a cancer-related illness, according to the BBC.Read more...

The cast of Netflix’s Spy Kids reboot expands. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham is getting an animated adaptation. Chukwudi Iwuji teases Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3's High Evolutionary. Plus, a look at Dan Harmon’s next animated series, and a new trailer for See’s final season. Spoilers away!

I’m exhausted. Years of reviewing laptops and I still eavesdrop on Best Buy employees telling customers to either buy very obscure Windows laptops or to “just go with the MacBook and Surface.” Part of the problem is competition. Hold on now, no reason to start sharpening pitchforks–I’m all for having options,…Read more...

Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to overnight tweets from the Tesla CEO. The allegations of a relationship were made in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday night and supposedly explains why Brin has been recently divesting from anything to…Read more...

House of the Dragon wowed us earlier in the week with its new trailer setting the stage for a Game of Thrones prequel so full of dragons, civil war, and political intrigue that, well, you’d be convinced it’s a Game of Thrones prequel. But while we had to wait compared to folks who were at Comic-Con yesterday, we’ve…Read more...

After last week’s stunning, mind-bending episode, Westworld could have taken it easy this week. But after its lackluster third season, the show has returned to its roots of heady, thoughtful science fiction, and clearly has no intention of pulling up and retreating. While tonight’s episode isn’t as thrilling as last…Read more...

While Dragon Ball’s Goku may have saved the universe a few times, he was also an absentee father. Sure, he was dead some of the time, but that still left his son Gohan to be partially raised and trained by Goku’s former foe Piccolo. But the two bonded—and that bond will be retested when the new Dragon Ball Super:…Read more...

Just like how great power comes great responsibility, a brand new trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever comes with toy companies’ ability to finally show off merchandise for it without spoiling anything. But this gallery of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends action figures and the traditional legion of Funko Pops might hold…Read more...

This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con has been nothing short of big, as it likely intended to be as we continue the pandemic age.

After the Marvel Theatrical panel on Saturday night, Marvel sent out a press release to a bunch of press-release-hungry journalists. On this press release was a cast list for Secret Invasion, a show about shape-shifting aliens, which included Regé-Jean Page’s name. Marvel quickly realized the error after publications…Read more...

Back in 2020, Boom Studios had the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers team up with the Ninja Turtles in the aptly named Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/TMNT. As written by Ryan Parrott and drawn by Simone di Meo and Walter Baiamonte, the crossover did exactly what the title implies, with the highlight of the whole thing being…Read more...

The cast and creative team for Archer put on their annual Indigo Ballroom panel for the upcoming season 13 on FXX. While we got a preview for future events, the panel focused on the absence of beloved cast member Jessica Walter.Read more...

It’s the last day of San Diego Comic-Con, and sadly, our cosplay slideshow. Days one and two had fans go all out with their creativity, and the final day was no exception. Without further ado, here’s the final batch of photos we’ve put together for your viewing pleasure.

The Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con made it clear that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get big in more ways than one. With the newly branded Multiverse Saga laying down nearly all its cards, it’s easy to sometimes forget that in the comics, things are just as tumultuous on page as they are on screen.…Read more...

You may recall that a few months back, DC Comics decided to go ahead and kill off the Justice League as the inciting incident for their big event of the year, Dark Crisis. Over the last several months, DC’s been quick to assure us that there wouldn’t be a big multiversal reboot, but since the thing has “Crisis” in the…Read more...

With Evil’s third season now in its second half, members of the cast assembled at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to chat about the current state of our favorite spooky spiritual investigators—plus offer a sneak peek at what’s to come as we slither toward the season finale on Paramount+.Read more...

Every now and then, Teen Titans Go loves to bring in a real life celebrity who will either gleefully bully the titular heroes, or let said heroes get viciously bullied by the special guest star. (Assuming they don’t team up to fight a musical dragon or some such.) Next on the list of guest celebrities is Zack Snyder,…Read more...

Keanu Reeves has spent the last near decade moving from different parts of the entertainment industry. Both The Matrix Resurrections and Cyberpunk 2077 proved that he could hack it in games, he’s had a really good streak of action and comedy films with John Wick and Always Be My Maybe, and he co-wrote the BOOM graphic…Read more...

We’ve known Chucky would return since late last year—welcome but not entirely surprising news, considering that the series (creator Don Mancini’s continuation of the campy, creepy Child’s Play movies) was a huge hit in its first season. We got a very brief teaser earlier in July announcing the October 5 premiere date,…Read more...

The Orville: New Horizon’s San Diego Comic-Con panel unfortunately didn’t bring much in the way of news—still no word on whether or not the show will be getting a fourth season, for instance—but series creator, writer, producer, and star Seth MacFarlane did drop one promising nugget: the Hulu series will soon also be…Read more...

Marvel Studios just tore the roof off of San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H, taking to the con for the first time properly since 2019 with a boatload of new looks at what’s to come on screens big and small for the MCU. io9 was there to cover it all—but in case you need a reminder of what just went down, here’s what you need…Read more...

Just how could the MCU continue to expand the world of Wakanda after the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman? We just got a taste, as Marvel took to San Diego Comic-Con to give us a look at Ryan Coogler’s daunting Black Panther sequel.

Although we don’t have any details on cast or crew, we do have a few new dates to report for the long-anticipated new Fantastic Four film. At the Marvel theatrical panel during San Diego Comic-Con it was revealed that Fantastic Four will release in theaters on November 8, 2024.Read more...