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Former President Donald Trump says he’s not interested in rejoining “boring” Twitter even if he’s offered his account back under Elon Musk’s new vision for the company. Instead, Trump claims he’s focused on sticking it out on his already flailing social media upstart Truth Social.

Coachella 2022 was my first-ever music festival and in the weeks leading up to it, I kept asking myself: will it be the music version of Comic-Con? This year’s lineup included acts like composer Danny Elfman with a live orchestra and rock band, Marvel Studios’ Eros aka superstar Harry Styles, Bond theme song Oscar…Read more...

Whether you loved The Batman or hated it or thought it had some charms but was way, way too obsessed with itself, there’s one thing I hope we can all agree on, and it’s this: The Batman would have been a lot of fun if original 1966 Batman TV series star Adam West had played the role of Bruce Wayne instead of Robert…Read more...

The Instagram account belonging to the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was hacked on Monday. According to BAYC itself, the hacker used the access to launch a phishing scheme that stole millions of dollars in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the account’s followers.Read more...

The results of a small study this week may offer some hope to people struggling with prolonged symptoms following a case of covid-19. The study found that long covid patients taking part in a rehabilitation program in Ireland, conducted online, experienced noticeable improvements in how their fatigue affected their…Read more...

Yes, the iPhone 13 recently underwent a minty green refresh, but now is not the time to buy Apple’s current smartphone if you’re hoping to get the best hardware. Apple’s developer conference is just around the corner, and more rumors about what’s on the horizon have sprouted up. If you can hold out another six months…Read more...

Research this month points to a mental health benefit from regularly exercising. The review found that people who reported being physically active were noticeably less likely to later be diagnosed with depression. This association was most apparent in people who appeared to meet the recommended amount of exercise a…Read more...

The most wonderful time of the year (Halloween, obviously!) is just six months away—so there’s no better time to stream some horror on your service of choice. Here’s our curated selection to get that countdown to spooky season going on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and Shudder.Read more...

Members of the first all-private ISS astronaut team returned from their stay in low Earth orbit on Monday, parachuting down into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.Read more...

Over the past few days, stories have been written (including on this website) about how Alex Kurtzman, the director of the new series The Man Who Fell to Earth, really feels about working on 2017's The Mummy in the wake of a new Bingeworthy podcast interviewing the director. Not a huge surprise, but he feels... not…Read more...

In this week’s episode of Republican politicians past and present behaving badly, America’s most recent single-term ex-president Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $10,000 per day in fines after failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general as part of a civil investigation into…Read more...

Researchers studying seismic wave data from NASA’s InSight Lander have reported the planet’s largest ‘marsquakes’ yet, at magnitudes of 4.2 and 4.1. According to a NASA release, the larger quake was five times as energetic as the previous record-holder, a magnitude 3.7 event detected in 2019.Read more...

After 993 days, Steven Donziger is finally free.Read more...

Elon Musk is already CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company, and the world’s richest person. Today he adds another title to his prodigious bio: Owner of Twitter.Read more...

A man allegedly threatened to bomb the headquarters of the Merriam-Webster dictionary and gun down employees over the reference book’s definitions of “woman,” “girl,” and “female,” which he believed were “part of the Left’s efforts to corrupt and degrade the English language.”Read more...

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space: confirmed! But not until August 2022. Luckily psychedelic space-fantasy is everywhere and there’s more than enough to keep you entertained until then. I’ll admit it... this is mostly games. I have a niche, what can I say? Grab your dice, remotes, ebook readers, and headphones—here’s…Read more...

Not much more than a month ago, a rumor swirled around the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ show that the titular Jedi’s oldest foe, Darth Maul, had originally been planned to be a part of the series. It was an odd rumor, given everything we’d already heard about the show and because, well, the Kenobi/Maul storyline…Read more...

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is opening its first physical retail store next month in an effort to familiarize consumers with virtual reality and the “metaverse.” The “Meta Store” opens on May 9 in Burlingame, California, a city on the San Francisco peninsula near Meta’s reality Labs division.

Phone addicts, rejoice! Your days of waiting for spotty airplane Wi-Fi to load your Instagram feed may soon be coming to an end as airlines look for new ways to connect their passengers to high-speed internet.Read more...

Power Rangers has spent the best part of three decades encouraging kids to definitely not try the cool things they were seeing play out as the Spandex-clad superteam faced off against Rita Repulsa and her minions at home. That backflipping, explosion-framed action was brought to life by a dedicated team of stunt…Read more...

The global effort to protect Earth from dangerous asteroids is set to become stronger, as China has announced its intentions to test an asteroid redirect system as early as 2025.

Someone needs to remind Google employees to check their pockets before they leave a restaurant.Read more...

Two wildfires in New Mexico combined and have burned 54,004 acres of land since they first merged, according to an update by New Mexico Fire Information. The fires—separately known as Calf Canyon fire and Hermits Peak fire—first combined on April 19, 2022. The blaze is located near Gallinas Canyon, south of…Read more...

Researchers in China have described yet another freaky sex habit of spiders (as if there weren’t enough already): Some male spiders launch themselves at great speed off their cannibalistic female partners, to avoid being eaten after copulating. The way they make their egress is similar to the mechanism at play in…Read more...

Total Film has revealed three new photos from the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series, set to launch on May 27th, coinciding with the beginning of Star Wars Celebration next month. Much of what we can see in these photos has already been revealed in the previous trailers and photo releases, so there’s not a lot to infer from…Read more...

As we await the release of M2-powered Macs, Apple is reportedly pushing ahead with M3 chip development.

Any moment now, a deal between between Twitter’s 11-member board and Elon Musk could be announced. The news of how real this deal could be comes from an unspecified number of anonymous sources in a report by Reuters and two unnamed sources in a report out from The New York Times. Or maybe this all could still be a…Read more...

David Cronenberg’s next movie gets a release date, as does the latest adaptation of Salem’s Lot. Team Archie gets ready to face some trauma in new pictures from the latest Riverdale. Plus, The Flash sets itself up for the rest of season 8, and a new look at everything going to hell on Halo. To me, my spoilers!

At this point, Wordle needs no introduction, after taking the internet by storm and then getting picked up for a seven-figure sum by the New York Times. We’re big fans of Wordle, a game that’s both super-simple and super-addictive, but there’s a big world of puzzlers out there that go beyond the familiar 5x6 grid of…Read more...

Fans of billionaire Elon Musk seem to think he’s the smartest person in the world. But Musk made a comment on Twitter over the weekend that could be his dumbest yet. Admittedly, there’s a lot of competition when you remember this is the guy who predicted in March of 2020 that the pandemic would be over by April 2020.Read more...

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 brought in more of the franchise’s lore that Sega has been building on over the years; not just in the form of the Blue Blur’s friends Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessy) and Knuckles (Idris Elba), but the Master Emerald that serves as the driving force behind several Sonic games. With a third film and…Read more...

The anti-queer movement across the United States that’s been making headlines in recent weeks is part of a larger effort across the globe to stamp out queer people, particularly those who are trans. As transphobic legislation is being enacted in the political sphere, organizations have been creating funds to help…Read more...

The month of April has had no shortage of pretty good movies in a season that’ll hopefully lead to some more pretty good movies. But right now, there are two fascinating films in theaters in the form of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers has had a rocky outing since it first landed back in 2020. Though the single player campaign was well-regarded and its core combat was considered pretty solid, it hasn’t a had a good time being a co-op RPG you want to play again and again. Bringing in a handful of free DLC heroes has…Read more...

It feels like it’s been forever since the release of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. At the time, the movie was something of a big deal, both because it was a reboot of the (mostly) beloved Brendan Fraser films that lots of us grew up with, and also because it was infamously planned to kickstart a Dark Universe…Read more...

Doctor Who is no stranger to the world of audio dramas, particularly those released by British publisher Big Finish. The publisher has created various adventures for the first twelve Doctors and their various companions ever since 1991, with Jodie Whittaker’s current 13th incarnation having been locked off due to…Read more...

Amazon’s live action adaptation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time novels adaptation premiered late last year to a solid reception. With a second season already locked in, fans of the books are looking forward to what characters and story elements from the novels the show will bring in, and another of the show’s new…Read more...

It’s just two weeks until Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness serves as Marvel’s next offering into alternate realities, which they’ve been working hard to make so hot right now. The concept is having a pretty banner year at the movies between this and Everything Everywhere All at Once. Up until recently, we…Read more...

In February, public health officials in the UK reported that three people there had recently contracted gonorrhea, the well-known sexually transmitted infection. What made the cases noteworthy is that they were caused by a highly resistant strain of the bacteria. This “super gonorrhea” threatens to be one of the first…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's round up of the coolest merchandise on the internet lately. Join us as we sip a cup of Potato-juice and look at Hasbro’s latest ginormous Transformers toy, the one and only Hawkeye joining Hot Toys’ Marvel offerings, and some lovely Jurassic World dinos. Check it out!Read more...

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Growing up in the ‘90s as Star Wars mania re-exploded with the rise of the Special Editions and the advent of The Phantom Menace, there were plenty of Star Wars toys to gawk at with desire as a little kid, from thiccly-chested Luke Skywalkers to more Jar Jars Binks than you could shake a gungan tongue at—and there…Read more...

The Moon is not the kind of place where you want to get lost, but it can get a little tricky trying to retrace your dusty footsteps without a GPS system in place. Thankfully, space engineers may have found a way around this limitation, designing a portable backpack meant to generate a real-time, 3D map of the Moon’s…Read more...

I know that Earth Day is April 22nd because companies won’t stop emailing me about it. What began as a call to action for environmental protections is now just a marketing opportunity.

There exists an underworld data broker market devoted to auctioning off your information to the highest bidder. It’s an industry populated by professional creeps who buy and sell mobile data collected via invasive if legal means, often from nosy apps. A new report shows that one such company demonstrated just how…Read more...

“So I’m very much enjoying this,” I said in a group text to a pair of dear friends as I began to watch Our Flag Means Death for the first time, “and there is some very queer queerness happening. But I just have to know. Do we get something on screen? I cannot get my hopes up again.”Read more...

In reversal of standard procedure, the federal government will now have to figure out how not to miss the trees for the forest.

Just a few days after Ukraine’s national post office issued some cheeky stamps honoring the defiant Ukranian border guard who flipped off a Russian warship, Ukraine’s National Post Office, Ukrposhta, reported a massive cyberattack, meaning that—at least for now—you probably won’t be able to buy those stamps online.Read more...

Who’s more annoyed at Binance right now? Is it the Russians who have been effectively barred from trading on its platform or maybe it’s any graphic designer who would tell you not to make a company symbol look like a swastika, even accidentally? Perhaps it’s anyone who has been begging the crypto company to stop…Read more...

Ethan Peck’s Mr. Spock has already been through a lot in modern Star Trek. Even pushing the considerable pressure of being handed the legacy of one of the franchise’s most iconic characters, Peck’s Spock came to us in Star Trek: Discovery season two faced with his own wild traumas. Things might be bold and bright…Read more...