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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...

Some survivors of covid-19 will be dealing with heart-related issues even after their initial infection is over, new research this week suggests. The study found that covid-19 patients were more likely than others to report a variety of heart conditions over the following 12 months. This increased risk was greatest…Read more...

For better or worse, The Mandalorian season two rapidly expanded Din Djarin and Grogu’s world, thrusting them onto a path that saw them meet everyone from fellow Mandalorians to almighty Jedi. Now, the season’s official art book is on the way, and io9 has your exclusive look inside as to how some of these surprising…Read more...

Several U.S. government agencies announced a plan to fix Puerto Rico’s ailing electrical grid and move it toward renewable energy. The initiative will combine efforts from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department Housing and Urban Development along with local policies to…Read more...

Although yesterday’s announcement that Futurama would be coming back for a highly unlikely eighth season was welcome, the notable absence of John DiMaggio in the list of returning voice actors has gotten much more noticeable after reports that the show has recast the role of Bender in advance of the show’s upcoming…Read more...

Apple’s long-awaited augmented/virtual reality headset won’t arrive until the end of this year at the earliest, but hints at the operating system it will run on have already been uncovered.

By now, you’ve surely heard of them: the NYC techie power couple—one of whom is obsessed with crocodiles and enjoys a good, awkward rap—that allegedly attempted to pull off one of the biggest money-laundering schemes in history.Read more...

Star Trek: Discovery has long had a history, and an issue with more often than not, centering Michael Burnham’s personal arc by making her the ultimate key to grand, intergalactic events that she alone can overcome—from the Klingon War to the Red Angel, from the potential for Vulcan and Romulan re-entry to the…Read more...

The controversial anti-encryption bill masquerading as a child safety initiative known as the EARN IT Act refuses to die. A new version of the bill recently clawed its way out of a warm, shallow grave and passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote on Thursday. Now, the reintroduced bill will head to the…Read more...

“After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.” That’s the logline on Netflix’s The Adam Project, which doesn’t give you much until you find out that it’s from the same director-star team that made the enormously…Read more...

Google released Android 12 in October, and while there are plenty of phones still waiting to receive the big upgrade, the company is already working on Android 13. The first developer preview of the next-gen Android OS is now available to download, with new privacy features and interface improvements that make it a…Read more...

The days of popular gadgets being perpetually out of stock and resold by scalpers at significant markups just got a step closer to meeting its unceremonious end.

Amazon has been incredibly tight-lipped about what’s going on in its Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV show, which is kind of weird given that the history of Middle-Earth has been available for the public to read for decades. But now, thanks to a massive Vanity Fair article, we have our first concrete…Read more...

A Starlink satellite felled by a geomagnetic storm has gone out in a blaze of glory, as this dramatic footage from Puerto Rico shows.

Quantum dots have been a topic of conversation when it comes to improving the color reproduction and energy efficiency of flat panel displays for decades now. In recent years we’ve finally started to see quantum dot TVs hitting the market, but researchers from Chung-Ang University in South Korea believe quantum dots…Read more...

When you accidentally re-unleash dinosaurs across the human world, you’re going to need all the help you can get. Especially if that help comes in the form of Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant, and Ian Malcolm.

Early Edition is making a return at CBS. Morbius is still threatening to come out on April 1. The cast of the Barbie movie expands. Plus, Ewan McGregor talks returning to Obi-Wan Kenobi, and another new look at Shining Vale. Spoilers go!

Proxima Centauri, a tiny star located a mere 4.25 light-years from Earth, may host a third planet, according to new research.