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While The Batman is treading fairly well worn ground with its title hero having some experience into his career as a superhero detective, its chief villain is another story. Paul Dano’s serial killer take on the Riddler is something of new ground for the green baddie, and it’s a new angle that Dano apparently nearly…Read more...

After his solo film made some pretty big waves back in 2018, DC’s been building out Aquaman’s corner of the DC universe with various event books and miniseries framed around his supporting cast. For Arthur Curry’s newest title, DC is bringing the King of Atlantis over to their prestigious Black Label in a miniseries…Read more...

Slowly but surely, the actors of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia have been trying to branch out from the vulgar FX series. For Charlie Day, that shift mostly began back in 2013 with Guillermo del Toro’s cult classic mecha movie, Pacific Rim.

Back in 2020, AMC announced that The Walking Dead would live on after its 11th and final season through various spinoffs and follow ups. One of them is Tales of the Walking Dead, an anthology series featuring characters both new and old in AMC’s zombie universe. And as it gets closer to its planned summer release,…Read more...

Another horrific winter of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. has once again come with a silver lining: barely-there influenza. CDC data this week continues to show little flu activity in what’s already been an incredibly mild season. Though it’s not realistic to expect that the seasonal flu will always remain this…Read more...

Maddie Phaneuf, an Olympic biathlete (she does a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting) from Upstate New York has watched this year’s Winter Games with mixed enthusiasm. She’s saddened—but not surprised—that the event has had to use fake snow, as snowfall is becoming harder to predict around the…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy and merchandise news. This week, The Book of Boba Fett’s end means merchandise a-go-go with Star Wars toys from Lego and Hasbro (and more, for good measure), and Playmates boldly goes forward with Star Trek: Prodigy toys and back into the past with r…Read more...

The Center for Disease Control released a study yesterday that the 2021 Anime NYC convention was not a superspreader event, despite the attendance of one of the first known people in the U.S. to have been infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. But this wasn’t just luck—the event had several measures in…Read more...

The flood of well-known people rushing to sell out to the blossoming crypto industry are legion. Shills, shills, as far as the eye can see! The fallen include former CIA killing machine Matt Damon, former NSA spy turned NSA whistleblower turned NFT peddler Edward Snowden, director of a lot of good movies Spike Lee,…Read more...

At mysterious biotech company Lumon Industries, certain employees are given a brain implant that keeps their work selves completely separate from their personal selves, with no shared memories between them. The procedure gives Apple TV+’s new thriller its name, Severance, and it puts in motion the show’s excellently…Read more...

A major milestone in the commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope has been met, as engineers continue to bring the observatory’s view of the universe into focus.

Reaching 36 miles above Earth, the Tonga plume is now the highest to ever be recorded by satellites.

Apple retail employees at a number of stores across the country are quietly planning to unionize, according to a Washington Post report—spurred on by pay that hasn’t kept up with inflation even as the tech giant posts record-setting profits.Read more...

Although various people have been trying to make some form of live-action entertainment out of the hit Fallout video game series for years, none of these projects have even gotten far enough along to ever hire someone to star in the dang thing. Well, until today, when it was announced that Walton Goggins will be…Read more...

In a time when Star Wars had all but faded away, Tom Veitch helped keep the Force alive. Veitch was one of the leading comic book writers for the Star Wars Dark Horse line in the 1990s and introduced stories and concepts that still resonate today. In sad news for Star Wars fans everywhere though, the author passed…Read more...

Poor performance and even poorer public perception have forced Elon Musk’s Boring Company to largely pivot away from its most ambitious projects and opt instead to prioritize more politically friendly locals. Now, Musk reportedly has his sights set on Texas and Miami for the company’s near future.Read more...

Tobe Hooper’s 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror masterpiece—a gruesome, chilling exploration of why you shouldn’t poke around other people’s property, especially in rural Texas. It’s a story other filmmakers haven’t been able to resist revisiting, with diminishing returns. The latest example of this hits…Read more...

The nearly extinct disease polio has made an unexpected and unwelcome reappearance in Africa. This week, health officials in the country of Malawi reported a case of wild polio in a young child—the first spotted in the continent in more than five years. World Health Organization officials are now monitoring the…Read more...

Michael Bay blows a lot of shit up. He may not single-mindedly hate the Earth like his co-master of cinematic disaster Roland Emmerich, but he loves destroying things on the planet and putting them on film, and he takes a great deal of care when doing so. In fact, he cares so much, he can’t help but equate his…Read more...

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A team of researchers recently X-ray scanned an iron dagger found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to figure out how the object, the metal of which came from a meteorite, was made. They suspect the dagger was created through low-temperature forging—but they don’t think it was crafted in Egypt.

Microsoft will soon force Windows 11 Pro users to create a Microsoft account and be connected to the internet for the initial setup process. The new requirements mirror those for Windows 11 Home, which has required an internet connection and account since it launched in October of last year.

It’s finally here. The day many have been awaiting for five years. The release of Horizon Forbidden West for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West picks up where that story left off, as the hunter Aloy discovers that journey to save the world from evil machines was…Read more...

Icy and snowy weather across the Great Plains and Midwest caused a huge car pileup on Interstate 39 in Illinois yesterday. There were more than 100 cars and semi trucks strewn across several hundred yards of the highway.Read more...

Talk of Quentin Tarantino heading to the Alpha Quadrant has swirled around for the past few years, largely focusing on how the iconic director’s take on Star Trek would’ve pushed the franchise into darker, more violent, and more curse-laden material. But new details about the cancelled film seem to suggest something…Read more...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft had a front-row view this week of the Sun giving out an unusually large belch, resulting in a one-of-a-kind image.

Throughout the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina, Amazon’s animated adaptation of Critical Role took its time allowing the titular adventuring party to grow into the heroes that millions of fans know from the original streaming show. The first half of the season was a solid adventure for Vox Machina as the…Read more...

Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert wants you to think she’s got the fix for wildfires.Read more...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Whistleblower Aid are keeping the pressure on Meta even as the company tries to reassure investors it’s turning the page from its tumultuous past.

Mark Zuckerberg and his “Metamates” aren’t the only ones roaming around the metaverse.

Despite designs that make them look like the inspiration for video game weapons that can effortlessly mow down waves of enemy aliens, Nerf’s dart blaster toys aren’t quite as aggressive at burning through ammo, but they’re improving, and the just-revealed Nerf Ultra Speed sets a new performance record.Read more...

Berkley Breathed’s Bloom County is heading to television. Brad Bird’s long-awaited Ray Gunn animated movie has found a home. A new Sonic 2 poster puts Sonic and Knuckles at odds. Plus, what’s to come on Ghosts and Resident Alien. Spoilers get!

Samsung wants us to call this phone the Galaxy S22 Ultra, but really, it’s a Galaxy Note. Everything about this device’s DNA can be traced back to that exciting and confusing era of phablets, from its enormous screen to the S Pen built in next to its charging port. It is the ultimate Samsung flagship. But does anyone…Read more...

Chinese tech firm Baidu launched its self-driving taxi service in downtown Shenzhen on Thursday, marking the company’s first deployment of autonomous vehicles into a densely populated area of China. And while human drivers are still sitting behind the wheel as a safety precaution, that could change in the future as…Read more...

Three different types of baby formula have been recalled after the FDA found at least four children became sick with bacterial infections, according to a news release from the federal agency. The three powdered formulas, Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare, were all produced by Abbott Nutrition at a production facility in…Read more...

About 45 years ago, Apple sold 200 of its first-ever product: the Apple-1 computer. Of those, around 82 still exist and about 80 in the first batch of 100 are said to have a handwritten serial number on the mainboard (these appear as “01-00##”). Only a few dozen of those 80 are still around. For decades, a handful of…Read more...

The saga of Netflix’s disappearing Marvel TV series continues, although the latest development is more about what’s not happening—i.e., the shows relocating to Marvel’s entertainment hub at Disney+. A list of the content coming to the streaming service in March has been revealed, and it does not include any mentions…Read more...

When Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi makes its Disney+ debut in May, the character’s theme music will be composed by one of Star Wars’ most important architects: John Williams, whose symphonic scores for the original trilogy (and other adjacent works) have long helped the series feel both epic and emotionally resonant.Read more...

The ocean floor is riddled with ungodly species that seem to have been created out of our worst collective nightmares. There are demonic-looking fishes that glow and sponges (that do not look like SpongeBob) that devour the ancient remains of other animals. But organisms along the ocean floor are biological carbon…Read more...

Since Amazon acquired Comixology in 2014, its larger relationship with the storefront—which, for those years, has remained the premiere hub for buying and reading digital comics—has been relatively hands off. The ability to sign in with your Amazon account aside, the two storefronts have largely stayed separate. A new…Read more...

In case you haven’t noticed, kids these days just do not know how to moderate their screen time. So, in a desperate bid to get his children offline, some guy in France apparently blitzed his entire town’s internet connection—by accident, that is. He now faces up to six months in prison for the outage.Read more...

Former Democratic presidential hopeful and disgraced New York mayoral candidate has a new dream job: web3 lobbyist.Read more...

Loki season two, the first second season in Marvel Studios history, is getting ready to go and its primary directors are now in place. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, whose latest feature Somewhere in the Dirt recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, will “co-direct a majority of the episodes” according to a …Read more...

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It’s been less than a month since the New York Times bought Wordle, but it’s wasting no time in ruining everyone’s favorite word game in all the shitty ways you’d expect from a billion-dollar behemoth. And—you guessed it—that means your little daily puzzles are being loaded with ad trackers now, too.Read more...

Ever since news broke that Legion and Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley was making a TV show set in the Alien universe, we’ve been desperate to learn more. When’s it set, where’s it set, who’s in it, and can we have it in our eyeballs right now thank you very much? Several of those details have been revealed in the …Read more...

Intel just announced that its first discrete graphics cards in over a decade will start shipping soon. We didn’t get a specific release date, but the long-awaited Intel Arc graphics for laptops will be ready in Q1, so no later than April. That’s right around the time 12th-gen Intel H-series notebooks are slated to be…Read more...

If last week’s Star Trek: Discovery was the show’s most successful attempt at making Michael Burnham’s personal life the main character of the show in a fun way, “Rubicon,” episode nine of season four, is finally the achievement the show has longed for since its very beginning: the chance to make that personal…Read more...

An alarming number of North American bald and golden eagles are suffering from lead poisoning as the result of scavenging on animals shot with lead bullets. The research is a call to action for conservationists—and also hunters—to mitigate this disturbing trend.

At least 104 people are dead and more than 30 still missing after torrential rains hit a city in Brazil on Wednesday, causing widespread landslides and flooding and destroying buildings, Reuters reports. The death toll could still rise in Petrópolis, a city of 300,000 that sits in the mountains north of Rio de…Read more...