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No matter what excuses the Eternals give in Marvel’s upcoming feature from director Chloé Zhao, the ancient heroes will never be able to live down the fact that they apparently felt comfortable sitting out multiple world-ending calamities. Calamities in which their powers undoubtedly would’ve saved a significant…Read more...

In the summer of 2015, a team of archaeologists in Utah found duck bones and charred plant matter just beneath the ground, in an arid stretch of northwestern Utah now known as the Wishbone site. The team realized it was an open-air hearth, some 12,000 years old, and now the same group has reported their discovery of…Read more...

Nandi Bushell, the talented 11-year-old drummer who had a drum battle with Dave Grohl and who you’ve probably seen on your Instagram feed, is rocking out in protest of climate inaction. She’s teamed up with Tom Morello and his 10-year-old son Roman Morello in a new song called “The Children Will Rise Up!”

When it’s not bringing out Christopher Lloyd to haul the series into a live-action multiverse, anime is probably one of Rick and Morty’s most beloved influences to riff off of. While its latest anime short might not have quite the mood of its previous, time-twisting riffs on Japanese media, it certainly goes all-in on…Read more...

A big cat at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota may have been killed by covid-19, zoo officials reported over the weekend. The cat, a female snow leopard named Baya, died last Thursday after testing positive for the virus and experiencing severe respiratory symptoms. Several other cats at the zoo have been similarly…Read more...

We’re barely more than a week out from Google’s Pixel 6 launch event, but it seems we’re getting a huge preview of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro thanks to an online listing that looks like it was accidentally posted a bit too early.

In Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s We Have Demons, a young woman named Lam discovers her father isn’t who she thought he was: instead of being a priest, he’s a member of a demon hunting organization, and now it’s time to follow in his footsteps. For fans of the pair’s work, which includes the incredibly successful …Read more...

The next Scream movie has found its frightful release date. Plus, get a glimpse of what’s to come in Batwoman, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow’s 100th episode, a glimpse of what’s next on Ghosts, and Rita Farr goes time traveling on Doom Patrol. Spoilers, away!

I sometimes think back to a phone call with a friend in the spring of 2020. Cases were down and pundits were optimistic: it seemed genuinely possible that, by mid-summer, all this would finally be over. These last two months, I said to my friend—will they seem, from summer’s vantage, like a weird dream? When, three…Read more...

Spies for the Russian government “stole” the United Kingdom’s covid-19 vaccine formula to develop its own vaccine, Sputnik V, according to a new report from the UK’s Sun newspaper. The short report, which is opaquely sourced to unnamed British officials, claims a Russian agent obtained the information “in person.”Read more...

Facebook has announced new safety measures for Instagram in response to the storm of criticism it has received in light of documents and testimony from whistleblower Frances Haugen.Read more...

NASA and Boeing have finally revealed the next possible date for an uncrewed test launch of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station: the first half of 2022.Read more...

Sometimes, not often, The Walking Dead gets it exactly right. Tonight’s episode—the final of the first eight-episode chunk of season 11—finally pitted Maggie (Lauren Cohen) and her herd against the Reapers at Meridian, with an incognito Daryl (Norman Reedus) caught in the middle. There were rants. Action. Silliness.…Read more...

Pop culture fans of all ages flocked to the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan for New York Comic Con 2021 after missing last year’s convention due to covid restrictions. While it was a much lighter crowd this year for safety reasons, there was no lack of fun and out-of-this-world cosplay.Read more...

When Animaniacs returned with a brand new season on Hulu last year, the end result was something nostalgic, but not entirely sure who it was for. New episodes are just a month away from release, and the first look at season two may not change your mind either way.

A few weeks ago, Jason Momoa released a personal behind-the-scenes video for his fight scenes as the preposterously named Duncan Idaho in Dune. It was a cute video that highlighted Momoa’s enthusiasm as a physical actor, so it’s not surprising that he’s followed up with a second video. And this one is all about the…Read more...

A planned rollout of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta version 10.2 to roughly 1,000 Tesla owners with “perfect” safety scores was delayed on Saturday. In explaining the delay, CEO Elon Musk stated that there were “a few last-minute concerns about the build.”Read more...

In CBS Paramount’s original series, The 4400, thousands of people who were abducted from across different points throughout the 21st century were suddenly returned together in the present day with no memory of where they were taken or who took them. What the 4400 do know, however, is that some of them develop…Read more...

Of the various weirdos and anti-heroes who stuck out in The Suicide Squad, John Cena’s Peacemaker is the one Warner Bros. hoped would take off with audiences the most. Director James Gunn got a spinoff series for the character before the movie even released, and next weekend’s DC Fandome will give us our first full…Read more...

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a film at war with itself, unsure of exactly what it wants to be. On the one hand, it’s a heartwarming tale of a family in need, forced out of their home, hoping to get a fresh start in life. On the other, it’s a sequel to two of the most beloved sci-fi comedies in film history. Throughout,…Read more...

It’s official: Saga is coming back.Read more...

Time has come for the 13th Doctor. After months of teasing, and the lingering shadow of Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall’s exit from Doctor Who next year, the BBC has revealed just when we’ll start the first steps on the road to the Doctor’s end. Plus, our first look at season thirteen in a new teaser.

The U.S.S. Discovery has been at the forefront of so many fights for the fate of the Federation—whether it’s in the Trek saga’s classical past, or now, in its farthest future. But with a re-emboldened Federation at its back and a new Captain on Deck, now its fight against a new threat will ask its crew to protect all…Read more...

In a few weeks, Dune will finally hit theaters (and also HBO Max) in North America. Director-writer Denis Villeneuve knows how lucky he is to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, mostly because he didn’t think he’d still be directing at all after Blade Runner 2049.

If you’re wondering what the most magical place on Earth is (no, not that one), look no further. A team of researchers across the University of California system have focused on an ancient and unusual mangrove forest in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula that they say has been “trapped in time.”Read more...

At New York Comic-Con 2021, the first footage of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina got its grand animated debut. Based on the web series where voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons, the cartoon quickly took shape after a record-breaking Kickstarter, and Amazon later picked it up for two seasons. As with…Read more...

While Apple declared the outcome of its legal battle with Epic Games a “resounding victory,” it was not a complete one. The federal judge in the case ordered Apple to allow developers to link to third-party payment portals in the App Store by Dec. 9, a deadline the company seems to want to push back for a long time.Read more...

If you’ve got a few old Apple Watch chargers lying around and are thinking of getting in line for the new Series 7—which is available for order starting today—you better mark them with a tag or something before you bring your new watch home.Read more...

NSO Group, the notorious Israeli spyware vendor, will no longer allow its clients to hack citizens of the United Kingdom, sources close to the company told The Guardian this week. The changes have been “hard-coded” into NSO’s infamous malware, Pegasus, and will make future targeting of UK-based phone numbers…Read more...

During New York Comic Con 2021, the cast of Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer sat down to discuss their excitement about making the 1990s slasher film franchise, adapted from Lois Duncan’s novel of the same name, into a streaming series. While the cast might have expected to spend the…Read more...

If you’re like us, you probably can’t believe that today has actually arrived. No Time to Die, the final Daniel Craig James Bond film, is finally in theaters in North America. It was originally supposed to come out last April but due to the covid-19 pandemic, suffered multiple delays. There was even talk of it maybe…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news on the internet. This week: NECA gets into the spirit of the season with the Mistress of the Dark herself and its next Gargoyles figure, Peggy Carter sneaks into Hasbro’s Marvel Legends, and Scrooge McDuck has us going ducking crazy. Check it out!

Everyone brace! The sixth and final season of The Expanse will be arriving in just a few short months, and Amazon threw in a teaser as part of its New York Comic Con 2021 panel for good measure.Read more...

Everyone has that memory. That time you were sitting in front of a TV or curled up with a book when, out of nowhere, the hairs on your arms began to raise. You began to question your own safety and the fear set in. Horror movies, TV shows, and more all try to be scary but, most of the time, they aren’t. They might be …Read more...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on three recent nuclear-bitcoin deals that may signal a growing trend in the industry. The Journal piece reflects a small but growing sense of excitement expressed by some crypto fans—including Miami mayor and bitcoin fanboy Francis Suarez, who has tried to lure miners…Read more...

Moving to strengthen protections for workers who speak out about harassment and discrimination, even in cases where they’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Silenced No More Act into law on Thursday night.Read more...

Though it proved difficult to spot, scientists managed to find an itsy-bitsy tardigrade trapped inside a chunk of Dominican amber. The unprecedented discovery of an ancient tardigrade is shedding new light onto this remarkably durable group of microscopic animals.

You could already use Google’s search engine to play Pac-Man, translate people’s handwriting, and do a barrel roll. Now, it looks like you can use it to tune your instruments, too. Android Police was first to spot the new guitar-tuning functionality built into Google Search, which lets users pull up the tool just by…Read more...

When Critical Role isn’t busy dominating the world of actual-play streaming, or putting out what feels like five million books—be they original fiction, behind-the-scenes collections, or straight up additions to the tabletop world they love— its characters are on their way to being transformed into new animated icons…Read more...

For anyone with an AMD CPU thinking about upgrading to Windows 11, you may want to hold off just a bit longer until AMD can patch a couple of bugs that can cause performance drops of as much as 15%.

As soon as a new iPhone is announced, so are countless cases designed to protect the device, and while many add additional functionality, none come close to the brilliance and usefulness of the Candy Catapult Case which holds emergency rations of treats that can be fired directly into your mouth.Read more...

We’ve had brief looks at Black Lotus, Blade Runner’s return to animation after Shinichiro Watanabe first gave us a glimpse of 2049's world with his own animated prequel short. Now the legendary Bebop director is back producing a full-fledged series in its noir-cyberpunk world, and we have a really good peek at just…Read more...

The Bose QuietComfort 35 and 35 II are top-selling noise-canceling headphones. If you look around a crowded plane, you’ll certainly spot more than a few, and there’s good reason for that—they’re comfortable and damn good at blocking out the world around you. So when I say the QuietComfort 45 doesn’t really change…Read more...

Picture-in-picture is a trick that most of your devices are able to do, and it means you can keep on watching YouTube, Twitch, Netflix, FaceTime or any other video stream while you do something else. Here’s how you can set it up on your phones, tablets, computers and media streaming gadgets.

China reported no new locally acquired cases of covid-19 on Friday, according to China’s National Health Commission, the fourth day in a row that zero cases of community transmission have been detected on the mainland. The country reported 22 new covid-19 cases from people entering the country, all currently in…Read more...

Google is cleaning house: Following last week’s move to demonetize anti-vaccine content on YouTube, the company has also added climate change denial to the list of videos that creators can no longer make money off of.

After considerable criticism, creators of an online game based around “fantasy startup investing” have said they plan to ditch their original plans to charge users for gameplay and will now adopt a “free-to-play” model. The company, Visionrare, had planned to sell users NFT shares in real companies for the purposes of…Read more...

Fiends, we officially have a new Pinhead. And who’ll be taking on the iconic horror character is a big surprise.Read more...

This year, it’s become hard to ignore the fact that the digital lives we’ve all built for ourselves appear to be completely and utterly vulnerable to cybercriminals and spies.

It’s safe to say that The Teens hate Facebook and Twitter as much as the rest of us.Read more...