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The government of China has no comment on reports that it has built mock-ups of a U.S. aircraft carrier and missile destroyers in the deserts of Xinjiang region, according to the Guardian.

To bridge the gap between The Boys’ second and third seasons, Amazon Studios has been dropping a number of in-universe reports from Vought News Network, the media organization owned by the villainous megacorporation at the center of the streaming series. While the news segments have hinted at some of the developments…Read more...

The exodus of cinema away from traditional theaters and in front of your couch is advancing once again, this time with viewing experiences previously resigned to only the largest screens.Read more...

As a global crackdown on ransomware gangs continues, the Justice Department announced Monday the arrest of a hacker with alleged ties to the REvil group, as well as the seizure of some $6.1 million in ransom payments.Read more...

The first Star Wars spinoff movie since Solo: A Star Wars Story was set to hit theaters in 2023 in the form of Rogue Squadron, a tale of the galaxy far far away’s most elite fighter pilots helmed by Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins. Now, the Rogues have been grounded... and it’s going to take a while for us to see…Read more...

Good news! This week’s Doctor Who figured out that having two plotlines is much clearer than having 84. Not really bad but just kind of fine news! It’s maybe still not quite learned how to focus in its return to a serialized format, however.

China’s Shijian-21 spacecraft, a satellite with the stated purpose of cleaning up space junk, has an orbital companion, but we’re not entirely sure what it is.

Noted tax-lover Elon Musk is the latest entrant in Texas’ Wild West energy market. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is now officially licensed to sell electricity to retail customers in the state through a company called Tesla Energy Ventures.

When Comic Book Workers United, a new union composed of Image Comics salaried employees, announced its formation last week, it was unclear whether the comics publisher would voluntarily recognize the new organization and begin negotiating a new contract addressing some of CBWU’s concerns and objectives. So far, Image…Read more...

For a decade, me and many other disabled people have watched ads for smartphones that promised to improve accessibility with slick, cutting-edge, and life-changing tech. Let’s be honest: historically, there has been a lack of awareness on behalf of tech companies toward those with disabilities. But in the past five…Read more...

Despite contributing to the overall gutting of New York’s traditional cab system, recent reports suggest Uber may be turning to yellow cabs for help.Read more...

Were you worried that Eternals’ middling reviews would somehow affect Marvel’s ability to make millions upon millions of dollars? Let me put your mind at ease. The movie, which debuted this past Friday, earned $71 million domestically over the weekend, a staggering amount of money that’s almost certainly still managed…Read more...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The biggest presence at the United Nations climate talks this year appears to be people in the pocket of Big Oil. A report released Monday finds that more than 500 lobbyists and others with ties to the fossil fuel industry are participating in the UN talks, either as members of trade industry…Read more...

Hermit crabs move into other animals’ discarded shells as shelter, because the ocean is a treacherous place, full of hungry predators. Half a billion years ago, another creature evolved the same defensive strategy, suggests new fossil evidence.

The Pixel 6 is easily one of this year’s best phones, but it ain’t perfect, and now Google is defending the slightly slower speed of the Pixel 6's fingerprint sensor, saying it’s part of its efforts to provide increased security.Read more...

You might think being thrown thousands of years into the future and having to save the remnants of the Federation was enough action for the Discovery crew to contend with, but it looks like season four is going to give the ship—and her new Captain—even more mayhem to deal with. But for all the action, Discovery’s…Read more...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Methane has been a hot topic at the United Nations climate meeting happening in Glasgow. Last week, more than 100 countries signed on to a pledge to reduce methane 30% by 2030.Read more...

Windows 11 is here, which means that third-party utilities for Microsoft’s brand new operating system are rolling out as well. Some of them bring back features that haven’t been carried over from Windows 10, and some of them add extra functionality on top of Windows 11. Here are the most useful ones we’ve found so far.

Soundbars run the gamut. There are some made especially for gaming, others for small spaces, a few that can be built out over time, and several for those on a budget. The Sony HT-A7000 is the soundbar for someone who won’t settle for anything but the best, so long as they don’t have to go and actually install ceiling…Read more...

The U.S. formally lifted travel restrictions on Mexico and Canada on Monday almost 20 months after covid-19 pandemic rules were first put in place. It’s just the latest sign that life might be getting back to a pre-pandemic normal for those who are full vaccinated.

In case you were fond of “Your News Update,” the feature on Google Assistant that created a personalized audio news stream based on the data the company has on you, it’s time to bid it adieu. Google unexpectedly killed it in recent days, so it is no more.Read more...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a well-known Twitter addict, thought it would be a grand idea to let the people on the platform decide whether he should pay taxes or not, so he made a poll. Musk asked the Twitterverse whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, saying he was prepared to honor the results of the poll,…Read more...

We’ve not had Sontarans on Doctor Who for a little while, and even when we did, they were more of the comedy variety in the form of Strax rather than the menacing little ankle-biters-with-laser-guns they were when re-introduced with “The Sontaran Stratagem” and “The Poison Sky” over a decade ago. Now they’re back in…Read more...

You know the deal by now: Eternals, the latest Marvel movie starring a new batch of emotionally stunted misfits and superpowered weirdos, has two post-credits scenes to tee up both its own sequel and further developments for the MCU at large. Following the Hollywood premiere in late October, director Chloé Zhao talked…Read more...

Rest assured, there are still good people in this world. And they care about dogs, which honestly makes them even better. A group of people claim to have rescued the dogs that were trapped by lava flows from the La Palma volcanic eruption. There’s just one mystery: We have no idea who they are.Read more...

The Black Adam footage revealed at DC Fandome back in October featured a moment where a soldier aims his gun Dwayne Johnson’s hooded antihero. In a flash (not that one), Adam grabs the soldier by the throat and quickly electrifies him to the point of being dust. It’s a pretty gnarly moment that feels like a joke when…Read more...

Did you know that Marvel put out two movies this weekend? Yes, there was Eternals, but there was also the movie we all actually care about, Thor: Love and Thunder. Directed once again by Oscar-winning funny man Taika Waititi, the new film has Chris Hemsworth’s musclebound thunder god being replaced by a different …Read more...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Several members of Congress arrived at the United Nations climate meeting in Glasgow Saturday, the night after Congress moved a little closer to the finish line of passing some kind of climate action in the form of the Build Back Better Act.Read more...

It is now apparently safe for all Mac users to update to macOS Monterey without the new software paralyzing their computers.Read more...

Along with its moody lighting and cyberpunk atmosphere, what defines the Blade Runner franchise are its Replicants. These androids have been the inciting incidents of both Ridley Scott’s 1982 original and Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 follow up, Blade Runner 2049. While the two movies are about Replicants, the beings are…Read more...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The Republican climate delegation has landed at the Glasgow climate talks. As 100,000 protesters took to the streets to demand radical, transformational change, Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, and Rep. John Curtis of Utah walked into the convention center where…Read more...

Toymaker Mattel has removed language from a remote job description for its American Girl brand that said selected employees would be subject to “periodic unplanned visits” from supervisors during work shifts. However, that was far from the only requirement that raised eyebrows and provoked indignation over the job…Read more...

November 6 is a big deal in the world of Stranger Things, as it’s the day that Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing. In the real world, that means that Netflix is using the day to hold a “holiday” called Stranger Things Day and build up hype for the upcoming fourth season. Along with a trailer showing Eleven and…Read more...

Marvel’s Eternals has finally hit theaters this weekend, and it’s...all over the place. Moreso than MCU movies typically are, I mean. Critics who saw the film early haven’t really been all that enthused with it, even as they respect that director Chloé Zhao tried her best to keep her Oscar-winning direction while…Read more...

The upcoming (and recently delayed) Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Forever, has had to shut down its production. Actor Letitia Wright, who plays T’Challa’s genius sister Shuri and was previously reported to have a vocal anti-COVID vaccine stance on set, suffered an injury while filming that was pretty severe to warrant…Read more...

Remember The 100 over on The CW? It was a pretty good show for a solid chunk of its run, starting off as a story about 100 teens from space sent down to Earth to see if it was livable again after a nuclear apocalypse. And then the final season happened, and the show somehow managed to both go off the rails and make…Read more...

When Stranger Things wrapped up its third season all the way back in the dystopian year of 2019, the unlucky Byers family and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) packed up their things to leave the troubled town of Hawkins, Indiana for greener and less monstrous pastures. Where do you take a former telekinetic girl and a kid…Read more...

On September 19, Cumbre Vieja—a volcanic ridge covered in the rocky scars of past paroxysms—erupted for the first time in 50 years. Every single day thereafter, molten rock cooking at nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit has poured from multiple fissures and vents, frequently accompanied by explosions propelling glassy ash…Read more...

Boy meets girl, girl brings boy home, boy stumbles into a very involved death ritual surrounding the girl’s ailing father, and soon becomes an unwilling and inextricable part of the eerie proceedings. That’s the set-up for Kriya, a chiller from last year made by New Delhi, India-based filmmaker Sidharth Srinivasan…Read more...

Earlier this week, the workers of Image Comics announced the formation of the Comic Book Workers United, a unionization effort pushing for a number of significant changes in the workplace related to equity, accessibility, and transparency within the company. Along with a list of goals and reasons for unionizing, CBWU…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news around. This week: Disney gets into the festive season with an antlered astromech, Iron Man goes Medieval Times on us, and your friend and mine, Jet Jaguar, is here to save the day. Check it out!

The feds have reportedly carried out searches of at least two locations associated with the bumbling amateur spies at right-wing outfit Project Veritas in what sources speaking with the New York Times said on Friday is an investigation into how the group obtained the private diary of Joe Biden’s daughter before the…Read more...

Joe Manchin, West Virginia senator and apparent part-time mascot for America’s well-heeled but clueless political class, was spotted driving his silver Maserati through a crowd of angry climate protestors on Thursday—another escalation in the politician’s ongoing feud with non-corporate America.Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con is about to hold its first in-person event since 2019. It’s called Comic-Con Special Edition and it takes place November 26-28 in San Diego, CA—but if you were worried that by not attending you’d be missing on big exciting news, you can breathe easy.Read more...

The first purported “real world” images of one of Samsung’s next flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S22 Ultra, have been published. They come by way of the sometimes-reliable tipster Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech. While the photos look like they were snapped when someone was running out the door, the camera array on…Read more...

Don’t mess with the Jack. That’s a lesson cryptocurrency exchange FTX may be about to learn the hard way thanks to a lawsuit launched in California federal court accusing the company of ripping off its mascot to create its own “inferior” Moon Man.Read more...

It was announced that The Walking Dead and X-Files star Laurie Holden would be joining Amazon Prime’s hit series The Boys for its third season back in June. Now, behold her in all her extremely red glory.

The International Space Station could be emptier than usual next week, should NASA decide to send four astronauts home prior to the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission.

Here’s the good news: The Flash’s five-part “Armageddon” crossover will begin on November 16, less than two scant weeks from now. That same night, Riverdale will also premiere its supernatural five-episode visit by Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka). But after those end, you’ll have to wait until 2022 for more of the…Read more...

Alphabet has spun off a new company called Isomorphic Labs which seeks to use artificial intelligence to discover new pharmaceutical drugs. The commercial venture will reportedly build off of advancements made by Alphabet’s DeepMind, which used a model called AlphaFold2 to predict the shape of proteins in the human…Read more...