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In the umpteen years leading up to the premiere of The Batman, the film’s trailers all wanted to make one thing abundantly unclear: what the Riddler, played by Paul Dano, looked like under his mask. Although I stayed away from spending three hours in a theater to watch the newest cinematic outing of the Dark Knight,…Read more...

Nothing quite screams 4/20 like aimlessly flailing around your room, possibly to the point of self induced nausea, immersed in happy visions of another world. You might be using recreational substances, or perhaps you’ve got a VR brain bucket strapped around your head. If that’s your idea of a good time, you might…Read more...

Today, YouTube pulled the channel of John Lee, the sole candidate for the 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, the Associated Press reports. Despite running unopposed, Lee began promoting his campaign on both Facebook and YouTube.

If you’ve been tuning into Amazon’s Josh Brolin Western Outer Range, you know about the plot hole: the literal giant hole at the center of the series’ supernatural mystery. The sci-fi and horror genre has great love for giant holes and bottomless pits as plot devices, and we have some favorites. Read on, but don’t…Read more...

You’re not alone if you’re feeling peeved about how gung ho some people are for flinging away their masks on public transit. Unfortunately, you’re not likely to be alone on public transit either, so it might not be much of a salve for your nerves.Read more...

A team of paleontologists scrutinizing the feathers on the back of a fossilized pterosaur’s head have found evidence that these flying creatures had the genetic infrastructure for multicolored plumage.

Now we’re getting into the thick of it. Marvel’s Moon Knight picks up right where we left off last week on Disney+, with the sky being wondrously manipulated into the coolest light show. It opens on Khonshu turned to stone in an altar surrounded by other figures after sacrificing himself so Layla (May Calamawy) and…Read more...

It isn’t a fear of failure, or of accidentally giving dinner guests food poisoning, that keeps people from learning to cook. It’s obviously a lack of kitchen tools that make you feel like a futuristic anime hero wielding a cool-looking blaster. Well, one maker has solved that problem by creating the most wonderfully…Read more...

Liam Neeson could—emphasis on the could—be interested in a Darkman sequel. Dr. Ian Malcolm teases dire stakes in new Jurassic World: Dominion footage. Anthony Mackie’s Twisted Metal series picks up a new director. Plus, new art from The Orville’s return and Ms. Marvel. Spoilers get!

If you’re reading io9—and it would be truly wild if you weren’t—you most likely have a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings somewhere around your place. I regret to inform you unless you act very quickly, chances are you’re not going to get your hands on this unbelievably high-quality, extremely limited edition…Read more...

Smartwatches continue to dominate the wearables market, but Garmin thinks there’s still enough of a demand for dedicated fitness trackers to update its vívosmart line for the first time in over three years with the new vívosmart 5, which boasts a larger screen and battery life that smartwatches just can’t compete with.Read more...

Elon Musk might not identify as a Republican, but new data reaffirms the billionaire’s proclaimed “absolutist” views on free speech put him at home amongst the elephants.

Everyone can now experience The Batman from home and with that comes access to loads of behind-the-scenes clips and of course the director’s commentary. The Wrap reported on highlights from Apple’s exclusive Matt Reeves commentary track, which has given more context as to why the film closed on the Riddler (Paul Dano)…Read more...

Peter Parker’s poor luck always seems to strike in the weirdest places. Like, his face apparently. From the put-upon Spider-hero that gave us a truly distressing video game makeover, now comes this.

A Ukrainian man who learned his Apple AirPods Pro had been pilfered by invading Russians soon realized he could turn the theft to his advantage. Using the “Find My” feature, he could see how far the Russian retreat was taking the invaders from his home.Read more...

Netflix may finally, actually, for real this time, have to crack down on password sharing.Read more...

As a Star Wars fan, beginning Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga feels like a huge responsibility. You’re about to play through all nine films in the Skywalker Saga in a single game for the first time—and right off the bat, you’re forced to make the decision of all decisions: which movie do you start with?Read more...

It’s the perfect time in between the two Easter holidays (Orthodox Easter is this Sunday!) to announce that Google Wallet has (probably) risen. According to noted code-sniffer Mishaal Rahman, Google Wallet is (probably) returning to Android. But you never know with this company.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is upset at Twitter’s attempt to block Elon Musk’s $43 billion attempted hostile takeover of the company.Read more...

The inflight urge to post a plane selfie on Instagram with the caption, “catch flights, not feelings,” is often interrupted by a slow and spotty Wi-Fi connection. But the airline industry is perhaps starting to look for ways to upgrade its current connectivity.Read more...

Titan of film scores Danny Elfman is no stranger to rock concerts; before his now iconic cinematic masterpieces from collaborations with Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and others, he was the lead singer of new wave band Oingo Boingo. So the 2002 Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival was the perfect setting for his blend of…Read more...

Investigators with the Indian space agency say a 9-foot-wide metal ring and a large cylindrical object, among other bits of debris that fell onto a western Indian village in early April, were likely produced by a Chinese rocket that disintegrated on re-entry.

Taking the unflattering title of America’s Most Endangered River 2022 is the once-mighty Colorado, according to a conservation group that issues a yearly assessment of riparian health across the country.Read more...

On Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled the CDC’s mask order on public transit and planes was “unlawful.” The court decision led to an end to masking requirements on major airlines, Uber, Lyft, trains, trains, and buses nationwide.Read more...

A new Jurassic movie is just around the corner, which means that before theaters fill with dino fans, toy store shelves will fill with dino toys, including what is easily the largest T. rex toy you can buy and also the best way to secretly terrorize your friends, family, and co-workers.Read more...

After a particularly contentious slideshow yesterday in which I, according to many, excessively critiqued the new Thor: Love and Thunder teaser trailer, I got to thinking… I wonder if people know how much I love the Thor franchise?Read more...

While speaking at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States will no longer conduct anti-satellite missile tests, which are known to produce dangerous quantities of space debris.Read more...

Move over, Thom Browne, and your stuffy leather trimmings! Samsung has a better collaboration in the wings. The Pokémon Edition of the Galaxy Z Flip 3 is official, and it comes with a host of accessories that transform the folding phone into a bonafide Pokédex for the real world.

Star Trek’s next step forward is arguably one of its biggest leaps back yet. Although the new ere of Star Trek shows kicked off with Discovery—at first a prequel set before the events of the original series, now its farthest flung future—its latest bet on the Trek universe, Strange New Worlds, is a throwback to that…Read more...

James Bond might have no time to die, but Temporal Agent Tarik Abdelnasser is not nearly so lucky. In Ibrahim Moustafa’s upcoming graphic novel Retroactive, Abdelnasser gets caught in a time loop while trying to stop a terrorist attack—only to discover a much more sinister challenge awaits if he wants to die another…Read more...

Yesterday, two Russian cosmonauts spent six hours and 37 minutes in low Earth orbit installing a giant robotic arm on the International Space Station that’s designed to work autonomously, move its way across the outside of the station, and pick up and transport astronauts during spacewalks.Read more...

Raise a glass to your fellow gamer: the GPU stock shortage is coming to an end. If you’re a PC Gamer or content creator, then you don’t need any reminder about how purchasing a graphics card or game console without paying a markup has been nearly impossible for the past few years due to supply shortages caused in…Read more...

The U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled Monday that scraping personal data from a public website is totally, entirely legal.Read more...

Adapted for the screen in both 1960 and 1995 as Village of the Damned, John Wyndham’s eerie 1957 sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos is getting a republish along with a number of his other works, including Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes. Today we’ve got a look at Cuckoos, featuring the new cover by Anders…Read more...

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What’s this? Some good news on the climate beat? In just one week, there were two encouraging triumphs for renewable energy in the U.S.: California’s grid briefly operated on nearly 100% renewable energy in early April, while wind power was the second-largest energy source nationwide on March 29.Read more...

Amazon just can’t seem to catch a break, at least in its efforts to keep employees in line.

Star Wars’ Hayden Christensen is obviously sworn to secrecy about how his character will factor into next month’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he is at liberty to discuss the research he did to prepare for his return to the galaxy far, far away. “I went back and rewatched all the films,” the actor told Entertainment Weekly…Read more...

These days, no one makes movies like Robert Eggers. From The Witch, to The Lighthouse, and now with The Northman, the filmmaker starts his process almost like you would a school project. Libraries and experts and research, research, research until he has the pieces he needs to make a fantastic, historical genre film…Read more...

Both Uber and Lyft announced Tuesday they were nixing their mask requirements for both drivers and passengers.Read more...

Many Puerto Ricans feel increasingly unwelcome on their own island as wealthy mainland Americans, social media influencers, and “crypto colonizers” flock to the tropical colony. Their response: Hold a massive beach party protest to remind newcomers that the beaches are for everyone.Read more...

What should be a simple process of updating your PC to Windows 11 is becoming a minefield planted with nasty malware.

A team of mechanical engineers at MIT recently developed an “Oreometer” to test the optimal way of separating the two halves of an Oreo cookie, so that the wafers and the creme filling inside remained unbroken.

Cybersecurity experts representing 30 NATO members are fighting a digital war this week to defend a fictional island country in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Though “Berylia” is fake, experts involved hope the lessons learned from the staged attack will better prepare them for the possibility of a Russian attack as war…Read more...

A new report covering the next 10 years of American planetary science and astrobiology concludes that a Uranus Orbiter and Probe should be “the highest priority large mission.” This decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is intended to shape funding and research efforts…Read more...

There’s a misunderstanding in many entertainment industries that because your company produces something cool, you must love to do it. Well, “misunderstanding” might be a stretch, because a lot of folks who work in high-visibility, high-demand industries like video games, publishing, and filmmaking actually do love…Read more...

John Wick’s Derek Kolstad is turning Streets of Rage into a movie. Alex Garland teases the folk vibes of his new horror movie, Men. Lucy Liu and Tom Ellis are bringing Exploding Kittens to life at Netflix. Plus, what’s coming on Charmed, and more Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teases. Spoilers, away!

Has another calorie-laden holiday left you with a mountain of candy and very little willpower to resist it? Eating chocolate bunnies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is less appealing when they’re upgraded with edible electronics and an Arduino that makes the bunny scream in terror as you bite off its body parts.Read more...

Now that we’ve gone through 2022's flagship smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy S22 and OnePlus 10 Pro, we can turn our attention to the new mid-rangers coming through the pipeline.

Amazon Echo smart speakers are versatile, capable little gadgets that keep getting better over time—but they don’t, by design, have displays attached to them (you’ll have to buy an Echo Show for that). That means their only way to display visual updates is through an LED ring that can flash different colors. Here’s…Read more...