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Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples never intended for Saga to be gone this long. When they announced that the beloved Image Comics series would go on hiatus in 2018, it was expected to last about a year. Until... it didn’t. And now Saga is back to pick up the pieces it left behind, adding a fascinating twist to one of…Read more...

One of the best deals in the smart home is a deal no more. Wyze, the company behind the affordable WyzeCam security camera, is discontinuing its original WyzeCam V1 on Feb. 1.

Research published earlier this week shows that a nasty Android banking malware has evolved, bringing with it a number of alarming new features—including the ability to factory reset your device after stealing your money.Read more...

Boba Fett might be having a rough time as a nascent, Tatooinian crimelord in The Book of Boba Fett, but there’s one thing the ex-bounty hunter was always good at: being a bounty hunter. That would have been the focus of the Star Wars: 1313, a game that was going to put players in Fett’s boots as he traveled through…Read more...

You Won’t Be Alone is both a poetic fantasy story and a searing investigation of what it means to be human. It’s emotionally wrenching and also frequently gory. Following its premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the film debuts in theaters April 1, and anyone looking for a mind-expanding cinematic experience…Read more...

Apple is reportedly set to launch a service that would let businesses use their iPhones as payment terminals with no additional hardware—a move that could put pressure on market leader Block (formerly Square).

Star Wars loves two things above all: its own history and its own metatextual history with merchandise. Sometimes, these come hand in hand—and what is old isn’t exactly new again, but it does suddenly have more people wanting it for more money.

The recent eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga was the biggest recorded anywhere on Earth in the past 30 years. A series of before-and-after satellite images highlight the extent of damage to the volcanic island and the neighboring region.

Amazon warehouse workers in New York are in the middle of a drive to create the company’s first unionized workforce, an effort Amazon has no interest in it succeeding. Though Amazon’s no stranger to fighting union efforts, a new complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board revealed on Thursday claims the…Read more...

It’s safe to say fans will be seeing new Spider-Man: No Way Home merchandise for a long time. Maybe even up until the next Spider-Man movie comes out, whenever that is. So much of the movie was shrouded in mystery that it’s likely not even the toy companies got a glimpse of many of the characters from the second half…Read more...

Los Angeles is finally turning the page on the city’s oil-coated past. In unanimously approved measures, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of banning new oil and gas wells and outlined a plan to phase out those already existing over five years.Read more...

NASA’s Perseverance team announced that the Mars rover managed to dislodge the pebbles clogging its sample cache system, a problem that has vexed the robot since last month.

When I started the Dungeons & Dragons & Novels series, I wanted to go through all the D&D fiction of yesteryear to see how they held up (or spectacularly fell to pieces). But if I’m being honest with myself, what I really wanted to reread was R.A. Salvatore’s original Icewind Dale trilogy. The Crystal Shard, Streams…Read more...

Surprise, surprise, the people who are the most affected by the climate crisis in the U.S. are the ones who are more likely to put their bodies on the line to change bad climate policy.

Any adaptation is always going to have to tweak its source material to fit the scope and format of whatever medium it finds itself in—but the team behind Halo, both the long-running game franchise and the upcoming live-action streaming series—have gone to great lengths to set expectations among fans about the fact…Read more...

Chromebooks have graduated from the classroom and are ready to have some fun. Recent changes to the Chrome OS code indicate Google is working to bring full RGB keyboards to Chromebooks—a feature that suggests full-blown gaming systems are on the way. After all, an RGB keyboard on a non-gaming laptop isn’t really a…Read more...

It turns out that even when your gas stove is off, it’s still a complete disaster.Read more...

Veterinarians in the UK aren’t too pleased with the breeders behind the country’s first known litter of hairless French bulldogs. They argue that it’s only the latest example of how “extreme breeding” is harming the long-term health of these short-faced dogs, who already face a higher risk of certain medical problems.…Read more...

The former Alaska governor and disastrous presidential running mate is in the Big Apple to sue the New York Times for libel after it insinuated that her rhetoric was tied to the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, which left six dead and Rep. Gabby Giffords with massive brain injuries. While she’s around, Palin …Read more...

For years, Art Spiegelman’s acclaimed graphic novel Maus has been taught in schools across the world, both because of the digestible, but chillingly authentic way it depicts the horrors of the Holocaust, and because it’s one of the masterpieces of the comics medium. It’s the only graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer…Read more...

Meta is making it more difficult to secretly snag a screenshot of someone’s disappearing encrypted message on Messenger. That new notification system, part of a broader effort to bolster Messenger’s end-to-end encryption functionality, will alert someone using the “vanishing messages” feature if someone tries to…Read more...

Critical Role’s first adventuring team Vox Machina are making the leap from tabletop to animation tomorrow with the long-awaited launch of Amazon Studios’ latest series, The Legend of Vox Machina. But before you see them venture forth, you can listen to them introduce themselves in style with io9's sneak peek at the…Read more...

A workshop filled with cordless power tools is also a workshop filled with battery chargers gobbling up outlets and power strips. Ryobi’s new USB Lithium cordless power tool system trades proprietary chargers for USB-C ports on the battery themselves, allowing them to share the chargers your phone, tablet, and laptop…Read more...

Karen Gillan must fight herself to the death. That’s the premise of Dual, a weird, funny, new sci-fi film from director Riley Stearns (The Art of Self-Defense). Gillan plays Sarah, a disconnected woman who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. She’s going to die, there’s no way around it. And so she does what many…Read more...

Is there a more satisfying experience in video gaming than clearing four lines at once in Tetris? (A move technically referred to as a tetris.) It turns out there is: watching an AI developed by Greg Cannon play Tetris flawlessly while prioritizing clearing four lines as frequently as possible.Read more...

Just as humanity has learned to fight off pathogens—through strategies like sanitation and medicine—those pathogens are learning to fight back. Some infections are now getting harder to treat, as many microbes have evolved ways to survive the drugs that previously vanquished them with ease. According to a recent study…Read more...

I was sitting on the couch one evening over the holidays, watching a college bowl game as one is wont to do. Football is usually my tune-out time where I can forget the world is on fire and the fossil fuel industry is hellbent on stoking the flames.

Good Omens’ second season has lost some divine voices. Showtime’s Let the Right One In adaptation starts growing its cast. Get a dark look at what’s coming in Raised by Wolves season two. Plus, what’s next for Kung Fu, Legends of Tomorrow, and more. To me, my spoilers!

Spotify has started to take down songs by Neil Young after the veteran rocker said he didn’t want his music appearing on the same platform as anti-vaccine podcaster Joe Rogan, who has a $100 million deal with the service, according to reports from several news outlets. Young had about 6 million monthly listeners of…Read more...

Star Trek: Picard was never envisioned as a long-legged series in the style of the Treks of the ‘90s—hell, when it was first announced there wasn’t any particular certainty as to whether or not it would be more than one season long. But, as the series looks to second and third times around aboard La Sirena, its future…Read more...

Privacy groups are demanding transparency following news that ID.me—the biometric identity verification system used by the IRS and over 27 states—has failed to be entirely transparent in how its facial recognition technology works.Read more...

Ever since mutantkind became ascendant in the Dawn of X—and the establishment of the mutant nation state Krakoa—enemies of the children of the atom have been lying in wait to strike out at mutants all over the place. But one with sinister connections to mutantkind’s greatest foe has been revealed, and now poor Scott…Read more...

The New York City Tri-State area is in for a bomb cyclone this coming weekend. But how much snow the city and surrounding area will see is still up in the air. Big time.Read more...

Fresh is a nearly two-hour movie that doesn’t let you in on its secret for almost a quarter of that time. It starts all quirky and nice with a young woman named Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) navigating the world of modern dating. She’s on all the apps, meets guys who are real assholes, some of them send her unsolicited dick…Read more...

Terry Pratchett’s work in Discworld may have flung us into a magical world of animated luggage and daring sorcery, but its insightful, often furious view of class dynamics and social injustice is what made it such a powerfully enduring series. Now it’s lending some of that fury to highlight a new campaign against…Read more...

It’s a well established fact on the internet that when you don’t pay for something, you are the product. This is the way companies like Facebook operate: You, a user, don’t put down cash every time you log in to see what your friends/family/exes are doing; instead, you hand over your personal data to the company, and…Read more...

General Motors helped hook Americans on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs that have been a disaster for the climate. Now, it’s getting serious about a pivot to electric vehicles amid increased electrification efforts from other top automakers. On Tuesday the automaker announced it will invest roughly $7 billion to build…Read more...

Frogs, unlike their salamander cousins, cannot regenerate lost limbs, but a fascinating new experiment suggests it’s possible for frogs to partially regrow their missing body parts under the right conditions.

Patch alert: You’re going to want to run—not walk—to your iPhone and iPad to update them right now.Read more...

A young couple moves from New York to Bucharest for the husband’s big promotion—he’s half-Romanian, speaks the language, and is immediately pulled into a busy schedule. The wife is left to spend her days alone, feeling out of place, and becoming more and more fixated on the man across the street who’s always staring…Read more...

The latest episode of The Book of Boba Fett has nothing to do with The Simpsons. There’s no green carbon rods, donuts, or Time magazine declarations. The image above, however, will make sense if you keep reading. We just felt we wanted to be as spoiler-free as possible.Read more...

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere say their robot was able to pull off a complicated and delicate surgical procedure on a pig without the assistance of humans for the first time. What’s more, the robot even appeared to do the job better than human surgeons.Read more...

The past few years have been testing gamers’ patience, with everything from the OLED Nintendo Switch to the PS5 to the Analogue Pocket seeing delays as a result of the pandemic. Valve’s Steam Deck also fell victim—the company announced shipping delays back in November—but today the company said that the eagerly…Read more...

Congrats to some weirdo who got a great deal! Melania Trump has ended up auctioning her stupid hat, as well as an NFT of it, for 30% less than her initial asking price after she asked for payment in one of the many cryptocurrencies now crashing in price.

Since the second season of Superman & Lois premiered two weeks ago, poor Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) has been dealing with painful visions of some creature locked in the nearby Shuster mines. In last night’s episode, aptly titled “The Thing in the Mines,” the titular thing burst free and beat the crap out of Superman and …Read more...

Did a hacktivist group hack the Belarusian railway system or not? Confirmation of the alleged breach remains elusive, though the allegations continue to intrigue security experts and commentators.Read more...

Please be warned: I am about to type out a deeply cursed sentence. In a new episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson talked at length about climate change in an exchange that makes Rogan’s recent anti-vax content seem scientifically sound enough to win a Nobel Prize.

Everyone knows a battle in Mortal Kombat can’t end in round one. There needs to be at least a round two and now, thanks to New Line Cinema and writer Jeremy Slater, there probably will be.Read more...

Spyware developed by Israeli surveillance for hire company NSO Group was reportedly used to spy on yet another member of civil society, this time targeting a senior member at rights group Human Rights Watch. That revelation comes despite NSO’s own rules against spying on activists or journalists and comes less than 24…Read more...

The aid effort to help volcano- and tsunami-stricken Tonga is running into a covid-19 roadblock.Read more...