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If you’re a Hunger Games fan, chances are you’ve been waiting on pins and needles for the first teaser to the prequel movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, to arrive online, especially if you learned a teaser had been released a month ago at CinemaCon. That trailer has now been released for the larger world to…Read more...

Billionaire poop-thrower Elon Musk is getting ever closer to pushing the big red button on his Twitter buyout deal thanks to his incessant demands that Twitter prove its users are real, fleshy human beings rather than cold-hearted spam bots.Read more...

Scream 6 adds Dermot Mulroney in its latest casting news. Beavis and Butthead enter the Multiversal bandwagon in a new clip from Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe. Bandai wants Iron Fist’s M. Raven Metzner to bring Tiger and Bunny to live action. Plus, another delightful tease for the return of What We Do in the…Read more...

The Platinum Jubilee, a celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year rule, was celebrated in the United Kingdom this past weekend, with a parade on Sunday featuring the same solid-gold carriage she took in 1953 for her coronation. But the Queen wasn’t in the coach this time, instead opting to have a film from 1953 sit…Read more...

It’s the start of a new month, and you know what that means!

HBO’s Westworld has gone through no shortage of casting shakeups over the course of its first three seasons. While it’s still got some of its original cast, such as Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, and Jeffrey Wright, much of its characters in the first two seasons have been gone once the show left the titular park.…Read more...

It’s been nearly a full decade since the original Guardians of the Galaxy film blessed us with Groot, the talking tree man voiced by Vin Diesel who can only say three (well, technically four) words. Though Groot later sacrificed himself in that movie and has since re-grown up to the point of being a teenager by the…Read more...

Sony and Marvel’s Morbius has become an internet meme over the last few weeks, and for the most part, they’re hilarious. Seeing this, Sony came to the conclusion of re-releasing the Jared Leto film this weekend in the hopes that all the internet goofs would translate to a bigger box office haul. And if you were among…Read more...

Another week, another coffee-is-good-for-you study that’s caught people’s attention. New research found a link between regular coffee consumption and a reduced risk of death. While the findings are the latest to suggest that coffee is perfectly fine to drink, they’re not necessarily strong proof that your daily cup of…Read more...

DC’s Black Adam movie has hypothetically existed for a good amount of time. If it weren’t for a sizzle reel of 2022 DC movies a few months ago, plus the Rock’s recurring promise that “the hierarchy of of power in the DC Universe is about to change,” you could reasonably think this and The Flash were Schrodinger’s…Read more...

Don’t worry. I’m not here to trash the new Top Gun movie, which is doing exceedingly well at the box office and which audiences seem to love.Read more...

News on Deadpool 3 has been few and far between, with the biggest update coming in the form of Free Guy director Shawn Levy signing on back in March. Right now, the only thing that’s confirmed about it is that it’ll indeed be in the MCU, which has fans equally thrilled (for obvious reasons, several of them related to…Read more...

Capcom’s Street Fighter series has been going for 35 years, and stood as one of the biggest gaming franchises around. Whenever a new entry is announced—as in, a proper one, not a new version of a previously released title—it’s treated as a big deal, and that’s exactly what we got with the real deal reveal of Street…Read more...

Back in 2020, HBO Max released the sci-fi series Raised by Wolves. From producer Ridley Scott and creator Aaron Guzikowski, the series starred Amanda Collin and Abubakar Salim a pair of androids, respectively named Mother and Father, tasked with raising a group of human children following Earth’s cataclysmic end. If…Read more...

Star Trek is no stranger to cinema, and the franchise’s quality of films tends to fluctuate with each new release. We’ve seen plenty of pretty good films from the series, and we’ve also seen films that weren’t as good as they could’ve been. Everyone’s got their own favorites, but if there’s one thing that can be…Read more...

Earlier in the week, Sony announced their plans to bring their vampire/superhero-ish movie Morbius back into theaters this weekend. The film—which, in case you’ve forgotten, only came out like two months ago—starred Jared Leto as the titular Doctor Michael Morbius and was honestly nothing to write home about. Surely…Read more...

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NASA’s DAVINCI mission to Venus is scheduled for launch in 2029. A new paper details this upcoming journey, a daring mission that could shed new light on the scorching hot planet’s mysterious, and potentially habitable, past.

Investing in Web3, the supposedly “transformative” environment of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies, continues to be a revolutionary new way to lose a whole lot of money.Read more...

General Motors’ fleet of self driving vehicles isn’t the best at handling run-ins with California police, but that didn’t stop the state’s regulators from approving the company to start charging passengers for driverless rides across San Fransisco.

The summer movie season is in full effect and we still know almost nothing about Jordan Peele’s Nope. A new trailer should be on the way soon, especially with The Black Phone and Jurassic World Dominion coming from the same studio in the next few weeks, but up until now information has been at a premium.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest merchandise around the internet. This week, Hot Toys returns to the Doctor Strange sequel with a delightful, decaying treat; Lego continues to be all in on Star Wars (among other things); and we take a time-telling trip to Stranger Things’ Upside Down.…Read more...

Star Trek in all forms is about stunningly beautiful people being extremely good at their jobs (or sometimes bad at them in a fun, very dramatic way—they’re always stunningly beautiful regardless). But sometimes even the hard workers of Starfleet need a little R&R—and Star Trek has often obliged with episodes about…Read more...

Health officials continue to report more outbreaks of monkeypox in the U.S. and elsewhere, while a new analysis suggests that at least two different lineages of the viral illness are circulating around the U.S. These findings make it increasingly less likely that the virus can be stopped completely.Read more...

Axon, the maker of Tasers, police body cameras, and VR training simulations, wants to add a new buzzy product to its tech policing ecosystem: Taser Drones. While the company believes these shoebox-sized shock machines could potentially save lives during school shootings, privacy and civil liberties groups told Gizmodo…Read more...

Carbon dioxide levels on the only planet known to be habitable are now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association reported Friday. They’re at the highest levels in millions of years.Read more...

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Arguably the most important meeting in Star Wars history has taken place, we just haven’t seen it. After The Book of Boba Fett, we now know that Ahsoka Tano and Luke Skywalker were acquaintances in the time between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. But how that meeting of the forever-linked Force wielders…Read more...

Google took another hit today. The tech company has settled for $100 million following a class action lawsuit in Illinois over data privacy concerns from users of the Google Photos app.

When you think about the brutal weaponry of the Crusades, you probably think of swords, bows, maces, axes, and flails. But according to a study recently published in PLoS One, you should add hand grenades to that list.

At today’s press conference for Ms. Marvel, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that, inspired by scenes in the Disney+ series, the studio is actually considering hosting a real-life Marvel convention.

Last night, I was cleaning out my C drive on my Windows 10 PC, as you do, and decided to restart when I was all done. After putting off a series of Windows updates for the past few weeks because I didn’t want to go through the agonizing, 10 second long process of a restart, I thought this would be a great opportunity…Read more...

Nielsen is launching a new product aimed at shoring up the accuracy of its TV ratings system: a series of datasets meant to quantify a program’s “bingeability,” along with a show’s propensity to keep viewers coming back for more episodes down the line. The ratings giant explained in a statement Thursday that streaming…Read more...

The first volume of Stranger Things season four was released last week, and now we know, once and for all, just how long volume two is going to be. Episode eight will clock in at just over an hour, while episode nine, the season finale episode, is two hours and 19 minutes long. So two episodes of television, about …Read more...

Here’s the thing about The Boys: it may be entertaining, but it fundamentally fails because we already know the world sucks, and this show doesn’t offer a perspective that’s any different.

Odds are a third Tron film will get made eventually. That’s just how things work in Hollywood. Ideas get batted around for years, work is done, then stopped, but at a certain point someone runs out of recognizable IP and wonders, “What else do we have laying around?”Read more...

In a recent interview, Elon Musk repeated his stated goal of wanting to transport one million people to Mars by 2050. The SpaceX founder says the future of humanity is at stake, which, okay, but the timeline he offers is ludicrous, and here’s why.

The big players at Microsoft say they’ll hold back their foot from crushing the little guy if they decide to go the way of organized labor, though it seems the company would rather first exhaust any other avenue than sitting down for collective bargaining.Read more...

Contractors at Google have successfully pushed back their return to office mandate after threatening to go on strike. Google Maps contract workers secured a 90-day extension to return to the office after the company initially slated a return to work for June 6.

Late Thursday, the once-mighty cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which reported a 4,900% increase in profits in 2021, announced that it was pausing hiring “for the foreseeable future” because of the current market conditions. And while pausing hiring may be one thing, the company then decided to be the biggest of…Read more...

Demonstrating once again that it’s always just one step behind the rest of the games industry, Sega didn’t get the memo that PC and emulation gaming handhelds are in and miniature game-filled replica consoles are out. Today, Sega Japan announced an updated version of its Mega Drive revival that now includes Sega CD…Read more...

Sam Neill might be the face of Jurassic Park, but he’s not particularly obsessed with it. Speaking to the actor on the occasion of the latest film, Jurassic World Dominion, he reveals that he’s only seen the original film maybe four times, all of which were when it came out in 1993. In fact, he was walking around a…Read more...

California’s ongoing megadrought—which has already led to water restrictions—is also going to start affecting the state’s ability to generate hydropower. This could raise energy costs for residents and increase emissions, CNN reports.Read more...

How your body performs when your head hits the pillow can have just as much of an effect on your health as regular exercise routines. Smartwatches and fitness trackers can be leveraged to track sleep quality, but researchers from China have developed a more comfortable device for tracking sleep metrics: a smart pillow…Read more...

The Japanese are stepping out in front of the international crowd of hungry crypto-curtailing regulators, becoming the first nation to truly clarify the legal status of stablecoins and setting a precedent for more regulations on the largely-unregulated crypto industry.Read more...

Tesla has reportedly been monitoring its employees’ social media activity, keeping tabs on discussions related to unfair labor practices and a sexual harassment lawsuit on Facebook and other platforms. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company allegedly paid a public relations firm to creep on their employees as they tried…Read more...

NASA’s Artemis program seeks to return humans to the Moon later this decade, but a pair of related side projects promises to deliver some fascinating new science that could expand our understanding of lunar geology and human biology.Read more...

Darth Vader is Star Wars’ ultimate villain. We’ve always known that, but the revived era of the franchise has dug deep into Vader as a character beyond his iconography to re-establish why we’re fascinated with him, why we’re so scared of him, and why we ultimately invest in him. Obi-Wan Kenobi understands this in…Read more...

Arachnophobia lives again with a new remake. Chris Evans talks joining Space Command in a new behind-the-scenes look at Lightyear. Indira Varma teases what could’ve been for her Obi-Wan Kenobi character. Plus, a new clip from Ms. Marvel. Spoilers, away!

We’re all familiar with Google’s successes. Most folks reading this probably use one of the company’s services every day, be it Google Maps, Search, Android Auto, or Chrome OS. But for every megahit, there is a lengthy list of duds—apps, social platforms, or hardware that, for one reason or another, never reached the…Read more...