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The Commonwealth’s Lance Hornsby is a man with a plan. A very devious plan. A plan that will very likely prove deadly to others. But, above all, it is a very, very silly plan, and I am here for it.

Overall, 2021 was a pretty great year for animation. Whether you like stories of Italian adolescence, prequels about monster hunters, or emotional closers to the anime of our childhood, animation fans ate pretty good last year. And with last night’s Annie Awards, the annual celebration of the medium gave some love to…Read more...

Among Kids WB’s many accomplishments, it ended up being a boon for cartoons based on DC Comics characters, ultimately contributing to the creation of the DC Animated Universe. While DC shows would later transition entirely to Cartoon Network for animation, the superhero shows on the network were nothing to shrug at.…Read more...

Throughout the first two seasons of Netflix’s adaptation of The Umbrella Academy, the superpowered Hargreeves kids have gotten themselves mixed up in all sorts of weird time travel nonsense that the superhero genre is generally known for. Having believed they fixed the timeline for good at the end of season two, it…Read more...

Back in 2019, Amazon released Undone, a pretty trippy (and pretty good) animated series about a young woman named Alma (Rosa Salazar) who got into a car crash and discovered she could move through time. Created by BoJack Horseman’s Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksburg, Amazon renewed the show for a second season that…Read more...

Over the decades, Michael Giacchino has cemented himself as one of the biggest music composers around, thanks to Lost, the Star Trek reboot films, and The Incredibles, and plenty more. You’ve heard his music a lot in recent years, and now you’ll get to see him take on directing duties for Marvel.

It’s been some time since we got to see the bloody, audacious world of The Boys. (Well, in live action, at least.) Fortunately, season three is just a couple months away, and the first trailer makes it clear that things are about to get somehow even more wild for the sorta heroes and absolute villains of Amazon’s…Read more...

After helping Spider-Man repair the multiverse that the teen broke in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange is back for his new solo film in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Last month’s trailer peeled back the cape on what’s in store for Stephen, and you won’t be too surprised to…Read more...

The hype for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi show is very real, especially after got our first real glimpse of it earlier in the week. Star Wars’ newest Disney+ series is winding back the clock to post-Revenge of the Sith, with Ewan McGregor returning to the luxurious beard of the titular Jedi. But back in 2020, his show…Read more...

Watching YouTube videos is all well and good while you’ve got a stable internet connection, but there might be times when you don’t have a high-speed link to the web—on vacation, on your travels, on your commute. To prepare for these situations, you might want to download YouTube videos in advance for offline viewing.

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys and merchandise around. This week, The Batman descends on Hot Toys for some gloriously expensive collectibles, Miles Morales swings in for a peculiar Lego build, and get ready to ThunderCats Ho with your very own sword of omens. Check it out!

Welcome to a new space where we explore the latest in realms you can visit that make the worlds of entertainment real through theme parks, pop-ups, cinematic destinations, immersive installations, themed food, and inspired libations.

If you were brave enough to be an early adopter of the Microsoft Surface Duo, you might also be fearless enough to install Windows 11 on it. I’m here to tell you how to do it, but I’m also here to tell you not to do it.

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Autonomous vehicles don’t need steering wheels, brake pedals, drivers’ seats, or other manual driving controls meant for us meat machines any longer.Read more...

Over a decade in the making, Back to the Future: The Musical reached the stage just as a pandemic was about to turn the world upside down, thus far limiting its audience to a lucky few in a run cut short in Manchester, England, and then on London’s West End beginning last summer. Now fans of the classic 1985 movie…Read more...

Fresh off the release of the pair’s latest film, The Adam Project, Ryan Reynolds has tapped Shawn Levy to direct the film everyone has been waiting for: Deadpool 3.Read more...

Did you leave Hulu’s Live TV offerings for another streaming service recently over its ancient DVR practices? This latest change might inspire you to give it another try.

On paper, Mattie Do’s The Long Walk is a groundbreaking film: it’s the first film from Laos to screen theatrically in the U.S., and it’s made by the country’s first (and apparently only) woman filmmaker, who also happens to be the only director in Laos making genre films. But even if you didn’t know any of that, The…Read more...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking some time away from inflicting inconceivable suffering on trans children and allegedly defrauding investors to warn DirecTV: bring back your Trumpiest channel... or he’ll be really mad... or something.Read more...

Giant tortoises currently living on San Cristóbal of the Galápagos Archipelago may need a new scientific name, as researchers had mistakenly conflated them with an extinct tortoise species.Read more...

In an adorable new trailer for Moonshot, HBO Max’s new sci-fi rom-com, we see Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse fall in love on a spaceship. Sure, Sprouse is presented as the lead in the trailer, but we all know the truth here. This movie wouldn’t have even gotten past the pitch stage without Condor.Read more...

After a public outcry over Disney’s handling of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney CEO Bob Chapek has sent out an internal email to the company, admitting he “missed the mark” and that further action is being taken.Read more...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is putting even more pressure on an already-strained global computer chip supply.Read more...

Everyone’s got their TV habits—if you skim any of my social media pages, for instance, you know I’m a sucker for 90’s television. We’re living in an age of streaming where you can pay for precisely the content you want to watch. And if cable news is your jam, then maybe CNN+ might become part of your lineup.

This winter’s flu vaccine was a particularly bad match for the most common influenza strain in circulation, a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. Thankfully, the flu season was much milder than usual for the second year in a row, as ongoing covid-19 precautions likely blunted the…Read more...

Russia has begun to ban Instagram.Read more...

With its blend of childlike wonder and sci-fi action, it’s fairly obvious that The Adam Project, Netflix’s new film from director Shawn Levy, draws inspiration from films of the 1980s. Films like E.T., Back to the Future, The Goonies, or Explorers. Beyond just that though, one thing that really makes The Adam Project…Read more...

Any time two household appliances can be merged into one is a big win for those living in a small apartment, but while a garbage can isn’t exactly an appliance, upgrading one with a built-in vacuum cleaner is kind of a genius idea because it eliminates the extra step of emptying a standalone vac.Read more...

Moira MacTaggert’s fall from grace in the Krakoan Age of the X-Men has been as rapid as it has been brutal. In a matter of months since the Inferno event that saw Jonathan Hickman bid adieu to the X-line, Moira has gone from the long-lived savior of the Mutant dream to a bitter, vengeful force that could undo it…Read more...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has, in two long weeks, brought untold suffering and instability. Yet, where most reasonable observers see an escalating tragedy, Big Oil CEOs see an opportunity.

The true global death toll from covid-19 may be three times higher than official numbers show, according to a report out Friday. The peer-reviewed study estimates that over 18 million people have died due to the pandemic, based on excess death data.Read more...

Nicolas Cage is unmistakable. In any role he brings his entire self—every weird, strange, bizarre facet of his personality surfaces in nearly every character. But now he’s up for a new challenge… being himself.

It’s time to hop in and go for a ride, as Venturi Astrolab has shown off a multi-purpose lunar vehicle designed to deliver cargo, perform scientific investigations, and carry two astronauts. The California-based startup hopes NASA will eventually choose its concept for the Artemis program, as the space agency seeks to…Read more...

Apple shook up its Mac lineup this week when it introduced the Mac Studio with its powerful M1 Ultra and a companion monitor, the Studio Display. These are undoubtedly intriguing products, but their minimalist designs lack a certain panache that once existed in Apple devices.

Based on director Domee Shi’s upbringing in Canada during the early aughts, Pixar’s Turning Red encapsulates the era right before teens fully lived on the internet. It’s quite the nostalgia punch back to middle school with flip phones, sneaky note passing, and boy bands. But what’s most remarkable, aside from finally…Read more...

As fun as operating heavy machinery looks, complex machines like excavators require a trained and skilled operator to get a job done quickly and safely. But as the pool of trained operators continues to retire and diminish, the future of construction might be machinery upgraded with robotic smarts so they’re as easy…Read more...

Chris Pratt shares from behind the scenes of Jurassic World: Dominion. Picard teases the return of an old foe. The Boys begins to prepare for its return. Plus, a new trailer for the next Gundam movie, and another look at A24's next horror film, Ti West’s X. Spoilers go!

As dominant as Gmail is when it comes to email services and clients, it’s by no means perfect—and there are plenty of third-party apps and add-ons that build on the foundations of Gmail to give you an enhanced experience.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency ATMs that allow people to buy and sell crypto are illegal in the UK, according to a letter made public on Friday by Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority. That means anyone currently operating a Bitcoin ATM is doing so illegally and will have to stop, according to the government …Read more...

Russian state media and the Russian embassies around the world have spent the past day on Twitter and Instagram harassing a pregnant Ukrainian woman who appeared in photos published around the world after she was injured in an attack by the Russian military on Wednesday. The woman was in a maternity ward when it was…Read more...

It turns out I’m a simple man—I can be much more excited by the prospect of seeing Obi-Wan Kenobi atop a weird, hairless, snouted quadruped than I can glimpses of Inquisitors, Skywalkers, and the heavy mechanical wheeze of Darth Vader.

The U.S. military has long dumped troves of its leftover equipment into the eager hands of federal, state, and local police agencies—one of the many factors enabling the alarmingly high levels of police militarization throughout the country. Now departments are so flush with gear that they’re shipping it to an actual…Read more...

For no reason at all, this week seems like a good one to talk about labor. Here’s a selection of games that feature strikes, organized workforces, and labor disputes. They run the mechanical gamut from LARPs to cards to dice, and some of them are even free. These games often dive into history and take inspiration from…Read more...

If you want to fly to Ukraine to join the war effort against Russia, a tech executive says that he will front the cash to make it happen.

Part of the appeal of riding a roller coaster simulator over the real thing is that you can experience track designs that are physically impossible in the real world. ROCO, a new coaster simulator, takes that idea one step further by letting riders draw their own track designs and then ride them, complete with motions…Read more...

Film producer and distributor GKIDS has bulked out its already significant animated offerings with four early films by acclaimed filmmaker Makoto Shinkai. Shinkai has helmed award-winning films like Your Name (2016) and Weathering With You (2020), both of which firmly established him as an outstanding international…Read more...

Samsung can’t seem to launch a flagship without making a little bit of a mess along the way. The company recently came under fire for throttling the performance of apps on its Galaxy S22 series of smartphones through its Game Optimization Service, or GOS. But curiously, the apps that the GOS didn’t throttle were some…Read more...

The former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl is now experiencing a power outage amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, prompting concerns of “nuclear discharge.” Experts say the hazard risk is low and that pending power issues at functioning reactors are the real concern.

United Airlines, once the aviation industry’s leading figure in vaccine requirements, has given up on its goal of a completely vaccinated workforce.Read more...