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Tesla has brought back its Full Self-Driving (FSD) profiles around three months after pulling the feature from an October update. The three driving profiles, labeled “Chill” “Average” and “Assertive,” dictate the ways FSD equipped Tesla’s behave in certain scenarios and the amount of risk the vehicles may take when…Read more...

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio and Surface Pro 8 stole the spotlight from the Surface Go 3 when the company revamped its PC portfolio last year, but now there is another reason to check out the diminutive convertible tablet.

While the real world goes to hell, there’s a comfort—a very small, cold comfort—in knowing that democracy is still holding strong somewhere, namely over at Marvel Comics. Well, not really Marvel Comics, just the X-Men... and even then, that’s kind of overselling it. Look, you just get to elect the team’s new…Read more...

Apple apparently doesn’t want anything to do with tech’s most obnoxious buzzword—I’m referring, of course, to metaverse (a pass for guessing NFT).

Disney offers a tiny glimpse of the return of Hocus Pocus. Kung Fu’s sophomore season adds a trio of new stars. The returning stars of Scream discuss the new movie. Plus, a look at the returns of Resident Alien and Batwoman, and what to expect from the debut of Naomi. Spoilers away!

Panasonic has announced plans to offer a four-day workweek to employees in Japan in an effort to improve productivity and attract better workers, according to a new report from Nikkei Asia. The move comes after the Japanese government made official recommendations to private employers in 2021 that included a shorter…Read more...

The metaverse may be headed to a Disney theme park near you.Read more...

These past few years have felt like a trial run of living through the end times. Thankfully, 2022 seems like it’s off to a promising start: Turkmenistan plans to close the blazing natural gas crater known as the “Gateway to Hell,” presumably to keep the other three horsemen of the apocalypse from following their buddy…Read more...

The movie community wept when news broke earlier this week that Jared Leto’s Morbius was delayed to April. Marvel’s vampiric antihero is meant to be the next addition to Spider-Man’s cinematic world, which has expanded in some interesting ways recently, but it just hasn’t come to fruition for the frontman of 30…Read more...

For Bob’s Burgers fans, the wait for the theatrical movie has been quite a lengthy one. The movie was originally announced in 2017 with a planned release for 2020, but the merger between Disney and Fox has meant the latter company’s movies have been in a strange state of limbo. There would be few or no updates at all…Read more...

Visual effects make up a lot of the MCU movies, but Spider-Man: No Way Home had its work cut out for it. Bringing back five villains from previous movies, plus two of the former Spider-Men was quite an undertaking, and VFX supervisor Kelly Port recently spoke about the process of bringing these characters back for the…Read more...

When it comes to Netflix and their video game adaptations, Arcane, Castlevania and The Witcher instantly spring to mind. But Dota: Dragon’s Blood, the anime based on Valve’s 2013 MOBA Dota 2, was a pretty entertaining romp when it premiered last year. Good thing, then, that new episodes are coming next week to give…Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday published a list of the 50 U.S. airports that will have buffer zones, or areas where AT&T and Verizon have agreed to limit 5G signals for six months.Read more...

It’s hard to blame someone for running away from a burning building. The same can be applied to Silicon Valley, where the head of public relations at Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is stepping down.Read more...

SpaceX’s Starlink has been making steady gains with its fledgling satellite internet service, surpassing 100,000 terminals shipped in 2021 and showing promising improvements in performance after initial speed tests produced lackluster results. However, the company’s run into an unforeseen hiccup with its dishes: Cats…Read more...

Nearly two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their covid-19 isolation and quarantine guidelines—a decision some experts called “reckless and dangerous”—the nation’s second-largest private employer has decided that a change was necessary for their pandemic response policies, as well.Read more...

Stories about aliens living among us are nothing new, but Syfy’s Resident Alien series still managed to charm viewers when it premiered last year. Based on Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse’s Dark Horse comics, Alan Tudyk plays the titular alien Harry Vanderspeigle, who’s been moonlighting as a doctor ever since he …Read more...

The development of 2017 (and later 2021's) Justice League is one of the most well-documented messes of a film in recent history, and its stars are still feeling its impact years later. Ray Fisher’s spoken about his time working on the film the most, but this weekend, it’s Ben Affleck in the spotlight for his words on…Read more...

The upcoming Batman: Caped Crusader cartoon has quite the creative force behind it, rooted in both its past and its future. Bruce Timm, one of the foundations of the legendary DC Animated Universe, is showrunning the new series that plans on bringing the hero back to the noir genre that helped define the Dark Knight’s…Read more...

A little over a decade ago, Edgar Wright released Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a pretty good adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s beloved and extremely popular comic. Though it didn’t do too hot at the box office, it’s taken on a new life as a beloved cult classic with a kickass soundtrack, and a geeky turning point for…Read more...

Every year at CES the convention centers and hotel-casino ballrooms of Las Vegas convert into a battleground for TV makers trying to prove their displays are brighter, more colorful, and slimmer than the others. This year at CES 2022 was no different: Top dogs Sony, Samsung, and LG, alongside challengers TCL, Hisense,…Read more...

Word to the wise: If a stranger ever offers you a random USB stick as a gift, best not to take it.Read more...

Ford’s e-scooter company Spin has decided to restructure and leave some U.S. cities and European countries where there are apparently just too many scooters, which makes it difficult to make a profit. The move means the company will part ways with a significant number of its employees.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news. We’re kicking off 2022 with a veritable eyeful of new toys to gawk over. Simpsons eyes! Playmobil eyes! Heavily eyeshadowed eyes! Mr. Potato Head eyes! Check it out! With your eyes!!

Charles Xavier, Magneto, and Moira MacTaggert’s dream for mutant civilization in this reborn era of ascendance has always been predicated on something of a lie—a hopeful lie, perhaps a naïve one, but a powerful lie nonetheless. It’s been a lie well maintained ever since Powers and House of X revealed it to the…Read more...

Two officials fighting the Biden Administration’s covid-19 vaccine and testing mandates for employers and health care facilities before the Supreme Court ironically tested positive for covid-19 just before their scheduled court date, which forced them to argue their cases remotely on Friday. In other situations, that…Read more...

An Oregon man is being hauled off to prison for four years after pulling off a pretty elaborate scam, all in the name of Stonks. The Justice Department announced on Friday that it caught 51-year-old Andrew Lloyd swindling upwards of $3.4 million from multiple federal COVID-19 relief programs, and then using that cash…Read more...

Up until Resurrections, the Matrix series hasn’t directly acknowledged LGBTQ people at all. Switch was written as trans in the original Matrix screenplay but the character was changed for the finished film, because studio executives were confused. That didn’t stop queer readings of the work, of course, which…Read more...

All good things must come to an end, and that includes the ability to use Google’s multi-room casting for seamless audio control, one of the features found to violate patents held by Sonos.

Few industries have been affected more by the covid-19 pandemic than air travel; with so few people flying for business or pleasure, airlines have taken to flying “ghost flights” to secure their takeoff and landing slots at airports.

Rabies was unusually deadly in the U.S. last year, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found, with at least five people dying from the viral illness in 2021. Rabies can be transmitted to people from infected animals and is almost always fatal without swift post-exposure treatment.

In the deep woods of Maine, the Pitney Mills Paper Company preys upon the land, emitting chemicals so toxic they cause the wildlife to mutate into monsters. Cult eco-horror movie Prophecy, which is new to Hulu this month, wants to outrage you with this storyline—but it also can’t resist giving into some major…Read more...

The self-proclaimed Cyber Ninjas behind the hoax “audit” of the 2020 election results in Arizona’s Maricopa County are scattering to the winds following a string of humiliating defeats. In what looks very much like a desperate gambit to evade $50,000 daily penalties for disobeying a court order, the firm now claims it…Read more...

Some people have declared the era of day-and-date movie releases was over, but thanks to explosive rises of coronavirus infections throughout the United States, it seems like Hollywood studios might be returning to premiering their movies exclusively on streaming services. If that’s true, then Disney will be leading…Read more...

Cloud-based scheduling platform FlexBooker suffered a large data breach recently that appears to have affected some 3.7 million people. If you’re one of those people, it’s best to act fast and protect your data because reports show the stolen information is currently being shared on some of the internet’s less savory…Read more...

Earth may have no greater adversary than director Roland Emmerich. The man seems determined to destroy the planet, or at least watch it be destroyed. Or maybe he just wants to see human civilization almost completely wiped out. Either way, he’s put more footage of the Earth getting absolutely wrecked onscreen than…Read more...

Apple Fitness+ is evolving its workouts starting Jan. 10 with guided audio runs led by trainers, similar to what you get on other apps like Peloton and Nike Run Club. The workouts, called “Time to Run,” are similar to the “Time to Walk” series Apple launched last January.Read more...

Between Bitcoin-themed superspreader events and cringey branded NFT’s, those within the crypto community have set a high bar for devising the worst ways to hawk their currency of choice. But this week, the creators of an Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency dubbed the “Elon Goat Token” (yes, that’s actually what it’s calledRead more...

After weeks of anticipation, China’s Yutu 2 rover has finally reached an intriguing object that appeared on the lunar horizon last December, revealing it to be nothing more than an irregularly shaped rock.

Over three years have passed since Netflix announced it was teaming up with the Roald Dahl estate to bring the popular author’s works to its service. Now, finally, the first film is about to get off the ground, and the cast already has us ready to give away an entire chocolate factory to see it.Read more...

A possible cluster of a mysterious brain illness afflicting people in New Brunswick, Canada may be larger than officially reported, according to an investigation published by the Guardian earlier this week. As many as 150 people may have developed unexplained neurological symptoms dating back to 2013, including cases…Read more...

Star Trek: Prodigy might first and foremost be intended to be an onboarding for young newcomers to the franchise, but that doesn’t mean it’s unafraid to throw in some deep cut references for older fans who are watching. This week’s episode, “Kobayashi,” is certainly no exception—and how one of its most surprising…Read more...

Here’s your word scramble for the week: A gob-burning power plant that helped Sen. Joe Manchin make millions tried to pivot to mining cryptocurrency but was denied by West Virginia officials. Say that three times fast!

The current state of the world may feel rather bleak, but a new year brings new opportunities to celebrate—and right now, we’re celebrating movies. That means, like last year, every few months we’re going to let you know which major sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre movies are marking significant anniversaries in…Read more...

There’s not a moment of wasted space in “Why We Fight,” as The Expanse delivers a penultimate entry that moves everyone into position for next week’s finale. The main thrust of the episode is Avasarala’s full-court press to get Drummer’s help in the fight against Marco, but there are several other big moments along…Read more...

It turns out the millions of machines that require single-use plastic coffee pods aren’t great for the environment, and Keurig is finally getting roasted for it.

Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take inspiration from Peter Waldraff who builds micro-scale railways hidden away in pieces of furniture and other unassuming pieces of…Read more...

The Dear David viral tweet adaptation has found its cast. Chris Miller teases the scope and confidence of Across the Spider-Verse. New Scream material catches you up on the past movies, while offering a glimpse at the latest release. Plus, what’s coming on the DC/CW shows, and a look at the final end of Attack on Titan…Read more...

With the three major chipmakers launching new processors and graphics cards for laptops, CES 2022 was poised to be a huge event for PCs. Now that the dust has settled on the event, we’re pleased to say it exceeded our expectations. Laptop makers came to play this year, showing off interesting new devices that are more…Read more...

The White House and U.S. Postal Service are “finalizing” the plan to mail Americans free covid-19 tests to their homes, according to a new report from the Washington Post that cites anonymous sources. But the website where people will be able to request the free tests still hasn’t been announced and its absence isn’t…Read more...