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Last month we got our first true taste of Moon Knight, giving us a look at Oscar Isaac’s duelling personalities as he discovers his potential as the moonlit titular hero. Now, our latest look at the series gives us a taste of the bloody work Marc Spector will be doing as the will of Khonshu.

Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home has properly set up the dominoes, with some help from WandaVision and Loki, it’s time for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to knock them all down. As is the case with just about every year, Marvel released a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it confirms what was teased…Read more...

Uncharted hits theaters this week, after many a delay and about a decade in development. Since it’s naturally a big blockbuster, and one based on a pretty popular franchise, that means it’s time for the requisite Fortnite crossover. Who’s ready for some character skins?Read more...

Earlier this week, everyone was surprised (to say the least) about the umpteenth revival of Futurama courtesy of Hulu, and even more so when the news broke that John DiMaggio may not come back as Bender. The reaction to this, and the possibility that he’d be replaced by another actor when the show returned in 2023,…Read more...

Like his father Stephen King before him, Joe Hill is slowly seeing his various works being adapted for TV and screen. After the success of Locke & Key for Netflix and the short-lived NOS4A2 at AMC, Hill’s fourth novel The Fireman is coming to television.

Though we still don’t know too much about Nope, the next horror film from writer-director Jordan Peele (writer-director of Get Out and Us; co-writer of Candyman) we do know that we’re dying to see it—and a new trailer makes us even more eager to experience its terrors.

Based on the incredible amount of South Korean romance dramas Netflix recommends to my poor soul, I can guarantee you that I’m a sucker for a good love story. However, I’m not a fan of getting scammed, and come as a messenger bearing a humble warning: Online love and money will almost certainly result in an unhappy…Read more...

In the era of the Great Resignation and a tighter labor market, it’s common sense to have companies review and increase the benefits they offer their workers, especially when that company is the most valuable one in the world.Read more...

As corners of the Marvel universe are often wont to do, a new team of superbeings is being announced for their own team book set to release in a couple of months. This time, it’s the fan-favorite Thunderbolts, though it’s not exactly the original setup of B and C-tier Marvel baddies and antiheroes trying to redeem…Read more...

If you’re a fan of shonen anime, chances are you’ve heard of Jujutsu Kaisen. Based on the manga of the same name by Gege Akutakmi, the series sees teenager Yuji Itadori learn to become a Jujutsu sorcerer to fight Curse spirits after swallowing the finger of a powerful Curse named Sukuna. It premiered in October 2020…Read more...

With Moon Knight getting ever closer to release, Marvel Studios is slowly beginning to peel back the cape on Oscar Isaac’s lunar superhero. While fans went absolutely giddy at seeing the updated version of Marc Spector’s comics costume, they were more curious about if the character would wind up donning his most…Read more...

The news of one of the biggest money laundering schemes in history captivated the world on Tuesday, not so much because of the crime—which involved $4.5 billion in bitcoin and is, yeah, a big deal—but rather because of the couple accused of carrying it out. They are the weirdo Bonnie and Clyde of the crypto world, and…Read more...

For at least a decade, a shadowy hacker group has been targeting people throughout India, sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext for the victims’ arrest.Read more...

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In case attempting to buy a graphics card at or near retail prices hasn’t been demoralizing enough, Best Buy is here to kick us while we’re down. The retailer is exploiting the ongoing supply shortage and our resulting desperation to force customers into paying another $200 for a shot at buying a graphics card.

In late 19th century Spain, at the end of the Third Carlist War, a bomb levels an orphanage and everyone perishes—except one girl (Haizea Carneros), who’s pulled from the wreckage by a mysterious woman (Itziar Ituño). As vampire movie All the Moons explains, what happens next is a miracle wrapped in a nightmare.Read more...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will invest about $5 billion into a nationwide electric vehicle charging network, in hopes of making electric vehicle charging “accessible to all Americans” to encourage more people to trade gas-guzzling cars for electric.

Some things just don’t mesh well together. On their own, for example, dogs and robots are pleasant, sometimes even joyous additions to the human experience. When combined though, they can lead to dystopic results. Despite the uncomfortable optics, “robo-dogs” have experienced a resurgence in recent years, particularly…Read more...

The cast of the upcoming Star Wars: Ahsoka show continues to grow, this time with a Marvel and Star Wars alum. Ray Stevenson, who voiced Gar Saxon on Star Wars Rebels and The Clone Wars, as well as played Volstagg in the Thor films, is reportedly joining Rosario Dawson in a galaxy far, far away. And we think we know…Read more...

The timeline on covid-19 vaccines for U.S. children under 5 years will be postponed yet again. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would cancel a key meeting set for next week on the potential approval of Pfizer and BioNTech’s under-five vaccine, and that it would now wait for additional data…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest in toy news. This week: Hasbro goes back to Star Wars with big new playsets and big new droids, Lego asks us what we really really want, and Doctor Strange magics himself up a new Multiverse of Madness figure. Check it out!

A burgeoning effort to replicate Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest here in the United States shows every sign of becoming mired in dysfunction, as adherents of diverging conspiracy theories struggle to find common cause to ignite their own nationwide trucker-themed movement.Read more...

This year’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles could see record-setting temperatures in the middle of winter. The heat wave is helping fires to spark in the region, even in the usually fire-free winter months.Read more...

U.S. federal highway regulators have decided they will no longer let speeding Teslas blast booming fart noises at people. Gaze upon the government working as intended.Read more...

Way back in 2021, Marvel Studios debuted a six-part series called Hawkeye. In it, Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), is dealing with the aftereffects of losing his best friend Natasha and getting back his family from Thanos. Meanwhile, superhero-in-training Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) finds herself hunted…Read more...

The commissioning phase of the $10 billion Webb Space Telescope continues to be on track, as mission specialists told reporters today.

The long saga of the union—and separation—of Marvel and Netflix’s shared superhero streaming ambitions is reaching a peculiar end, it seems. Quietly, Netflix has revealed that all six of its original Marvel streaming series will join a rare handful of Netflix Originals to leave the service, and it’s not sure yet if,…Read more...

If you’ve spent any time online you’re well aware the internet is infested with bots and shit stirrers of all stripes pretending to be people they aren’t. Though bot proliferation, in particular, is difficult to measure, a 2020 report from cyber security firm Imperva found over a quarter, (37.2%) of all internet…Read more...

After Denis Villeneuve’s foray into the neo-noir future of Blade Runner seemingly petered out at the box office, the future of the franchise seemed dire. But now, the show must go on—and Blade Runner has found a new home, a new format, and a familiar talent behind the scenes.

The biggest movie trailer of the week drops Sunday night during a major sporting event. But that event isn’t the Super Bowl—and the trailer isn’t for one movie. It’s for four.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken unprecedented visible-light images of Venus’s nightside, revealing surface features that would otherwise be obscured by clouds.

Yesterday we got a good look at the next entry in the Jurassic Park franchise with the first full trailer for Jurassic World: Dominion, and where there’s a blockbuster en route there are also new Lego sets. Our favorite of today’s reveals pays tribute to an iconic scene from the film that started it all.Read more...

Koalas are in trouble. The Australian government said Friday that koalas are now an endangered species in two states, due in large part to devastating bushfires, drought, and heat waves that have hit the country in the past few years.Read more...

Supply shortages and the resulting price increases could soon get much worse after contamination at Western Digital’s NAND production facilities sent millions of terabytes of flash storage down the drain.

Despite a very rough first look, the original Sonic the Hedgehog movie wound up being an unexpected delight. From the first trailer back in December, you could tell that the sequel planned on delivering even more of the same high-speed thrills as the original. With less than two months to go before its spring release,…Read more...

The term cyborg conjures up images from Star Trek, RoboCop, and even The Six Million Dollar Man, and while we might get there someday, our first attempts at creating biohybrids are a lot simpler, but no less impressive, as demonstrated by this robotic fish powered by human heart cells.Read more...

2021 was a bad PR year for Big Tech. Lawmakers, advocates, and scholars filled pages of books and held hours of hearing exalting what they viewed as an industry being strangled by a handful of players using anti-competitive practices to solidify their position as kings. Ironically, those exact same tactics were…Read more...

Clone Jesus rises in a new look at the incredibly titled dEVIL. Morgan Freeman joins Rusty Cundieff’s new sci-fi adventure. Jamie Lee Curtis shares more from the Halloween Ends set. Plus, good news for Superman & Lois, and the CW teases what’s to come on the rest of its DC shows. Spoilers get!

There’s no better way to ensure you end up on the invite list for the best summer parties and BBQs then by impressing your neighbors with the perfect Super Bowl bash in February. Good food and snacks are of the utmost performance, but with the right gadgets you can take your Super Bowl party to the next memorable…Read more...

Three former defense contractors in Hawaii have been charged with illegal donations to Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and one of her political action committees, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The men worked for a company called Martin Defense Group, which changed its name from Navatek after…Read more...

The Central Intelligence Agency has a secret data collection program that includes some information about Americans, according to two U.S. Senators with knowledge of the program. The nature of the collection, how it is conducted, and the extent to which it has occurred isn’t at all clear, though the senators have…Read more...

MoviePass, the theater subscription service that went on a wild rollercoaster ride before crashing into bankruptcy, is coming back from the dead. For real. However, unlike the original service, the new MoviePass will be built on Web3 technology and allow users to essentially “sell” advertisers access to their eyeballs.…Read more...

Being sentenced to prison for playing a video game sounds pretty rough, but apparently it can happen to you if you’re a kid in Russia.Read more...

That Baby Yoda toy you scored from the bargain bin at your local toy store isn’t going to be a flawless replica of Grogu as he appears in the Star Wars series. If it’s accuracy you’re after, you’ll either have to spend hundreds of dollars on a high-end replica from companies like Hot Toys or Sideshow Collectibles, or…Read more...

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Apparently, no one fights like Gaston behind the scenes too. The upcoming Disney+ Beauty and the Beast spinoff show starring Luke Evans and Josh Gad as Gaston and LeFou has been put on hold due to delays regarding “creative elements and scheduling challenges.”Read more...

Florida is inching closer to changing the state’s solar industry—and individual ownership of solar panels—for the worse.

In December 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe returned to Earth with samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu. New research finds that the asteroid’s subsurface materials are strikingly similar to the ones found up top, in what is an important finding.

Good news for horror fans: at today’s ongoing Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, AMC Networks announced that spooky-centric streamer Shudder—already our go-to for new international horror, as well as some of our favorite classics—will debut a new limited series focusing on queer horror, in the vein of…Read more...