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The wait is over: iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8 are out now. The software upgrades pack in a ton of new features, including fun FaceTime additions and Focus modes to better manage notifications. (Plus a whole bunch of other stuff.) If you want the latest, you’ll have to update your devices. But before you do that,…Read more...

The only thing scarier than a friend returning from the grave is if they bring you with them. That’s what happens in Multiverse, a new movie from Saban Films. Previously titled Entangled, the new name seems to be banking on fans already excited by Loki, What If, and Spider-Man: No Way Home and their multiverse…Read more...

DoorDash has expanded booze delivery so that more people can drink at home. If this is unfamiliar, you have not known shame until you’ve stood there in your pajamas with the door wide open, fumbling with your ID while a Dasher holds your bag of pre-batched margs. Lockdown was hard on us all.Read more...

Titans teases a dive into Raven’s past. The CW sets up what’s in store for Riverdale, Supergirl, and more. Get a new look at Doom Patrol’s return. Plus, trailers for Legends of Tomorrow and Legacies, and Carnival Row sets the stage for season two. To me, my spoilers!

It was a work night in the Trump era, and I was in bed, reading a book about neoliberalism. Or, more accurately, trying to. The author’s stated ambition for the chapter at hand was to render certain late ideas of Foucault’s accessible to a general audience, but she seemed for long stretches to lose sight of this goal,…Read more...

Electric car company Tesla is promising a big upgrade to its so-called “self-driving” features in the very near future, but U.S. government regulators are not impressed. In fact, the new head of the National Traffic Safety Board thinks Tesla’s marketing is “misleading and irresponsible,” according to an interview she…Read more...

In many ways, AMC’s The Walking Dead is a show stuck with one foot in the past. It’s still trying to ride the coattails of its former popularity. It’s trying to wrap up the series without stepping on the toes of the eventual Rick Grimes movie. But the biggest problem is that the show can’t move on from the same…Read more...

Tesla is getting ready to roll out a sweeping update for its “Full Self-Driving” mode that would extend the feature’s beta testing to more customers and areas. But before it does, the automaker needs to address some “basic safety issues,” said Jennifer Homendy, head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, in…Read more...

Facebook on Saturday pushed back against recent reports from the Wall Street Journal that cited a trove of leaked company documents to outline how Facebook executives have been slow to respond to known problems across its platforms that harm users. In a company blog post, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs,…Read more...

When David Tennant stars in something, we pay attention: Doctor Who, Jessica Jones, Good Omens, you name it. The guy is personality plus with a knack for picking great genre roles, and his latest is a wink back to one of the most influential creators in genre history. Tennant is set to start in an eight-part BBC…Read more...

Arda, the physical world J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is set on, has a history stretching far, far back before Frodo’s adventure to destroy Sauron. Some of that will be explored in Amazon’s upcoming streaming series, and stories from even earlier will be teased there, too. But Arda has a remarkably long …Read more...

Laika, the maker of fine stop-motion animated movies such as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, has announced its newest project: an adaptation of Wildwood, the 2011 YA novel by Colin Meloy, singer/songwriter of the indie rock band the Decemberists, and illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis. The film will be…Read more...

Tesla solar roof customers who were blindsided by the company’s massive (and legally questionable) price hikes in April may be able to get their original rates restored, according to a court document published this week.Read more...

Spot may not be working for the cops anymore, but Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot already has a new gig as a guard dog at a South Korean auto factory. Cue a fresh wave of “Black Mirror” memes.Read more...

Evangelion 3.0+1.0's heady attempt to bid farewell not just to the series of ‘Rebuild’ movies of the seminal mecha anime, but the ideas of the series at large, has a lot to deal with across its meaty runtime. But its choice to slam the brakes on the forward momentum and ask its characters to sit with the prospect of…Read more...

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One of the most annoying things about mega-movies franchises like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that everyone is so hell-bent on keeping secrets that the people working on them have to lie through their teeth in response to even the most banal questions with the most obvious answers. Enter one Kit…Read more...

There’s no doubt that cryptocurrency in its current form is bad news for our planet. But while much attention has been paid to crypto’s carbon footprint and electrical use, its impact on e-waste hasn’t received similar scrutiny, until now.Read more...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday announced that Starlink, the company’s satellite internet service, will come out of its public beta phase in October. While that would be exciting news, we’re taking it with a grain a salt. It is Musk, after all, the man that has become infamous for missing deadlines over the years.Read more...

Epik, the controversial web registrar that frequently comes under fire for hosting far-right groups and individuals, has had an immense amount of its data spilled onto the internet in recent days. The deluge, which reportedly consists of some 180 gigabytes of user registration and domain information, payment history,…Read more...

Everyone expects to be scared by a horror movie. But when you sit down for a comedy, fantasy, or adventure movie, that’s a whole other beast. You aren’t expecting to jump out of your seat or tremble with tension in a movie that’s not generally scary. History has shown us, though, that some scares defy genre and that’s…Read more...

Batman’s known to be a master planner, prepared for every contingency. But sometimes, someone manages to outsmart the Dark Knight—for example, someone who has the knowledge to find Batman’s secret safehouse scattered through Gotham City, and the ability to steal the tech inside despite what must be some extremely…Read more...

The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it’s charging 138 people—including 42 doctors, nurses, and myriad medical professionals working in telemedicine—for allegedly participating in a collection of healthcare fraud schemes that wound up costing taxpayers around $1.4 billion in losses. The biggest culprit?…Read more...

It’s not a direct sequel, but if you’re hungering for one of those, the Paranormal Activity series has six already. What Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin does have are folk horror vibes, a terribly unfriendly looking hole in the ground, that signature shaky-cam, and the pleasing one-two punch of being an exclusive…Read more...

Like an aging water park, Facebook owes its continued existence to occasionally throwing in a new wave pool (Instagram) and then spending most of the rest of its days sipping a cold one and paying the settlements on the injury lawsuits, safe in the knowledge that it’s the only game in town. Now that a formidable rival…Read more...

Sharpen up those stakes and fill your bathtubs with garlic. The Lost Boys are coming back. Noah Jupe, one of the stars of A Quiet Place, and Jaeden Martell, star of It and Knives Out, have been tapped to star in a modern day remake of the 1987 vampire hit which starred Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, and…Read more...

Like a New Jersey mobster struggling to take care of his family while simultaneously confronting his own mental health issues, HBO is trying to make you an offer you can’t refuse.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the latest toy and merchandise around the internet. This week, Lego goes queer and festive, McFarlane brings some alien oddities to its Warhammer line, and your next phone upgrade might just be a pretty sweet Pokémon Pokédex. Check it out!

The Biden administration is planning to roll out new policies designed to hobble the ransomware industry’s reliance on digital currencies.Read more...

On Friday, outside experts assembled by the Food and Drug Administration delivered a blow to the White House’s ambition to roll out covid-19 booster doses to most Americans. The panel largely voted no on a recommendation to give third doses to vaccinated Americans over the age of 16. However, they did unanimously…Read more...

In FX’s Y: The Last Man, scores of animals with Y chromosomes start dying en masse a short time before the pathogen that’s causing it begins affecting humans as well. Though no one seems to notice what’s happening to the animals initially, it’s one of Y: The Last Man’s first signs of the alarming future humanity’s…Read more...

Earlier this week, amateur astronomers around the world independently caught a glimpse of something large slamming into Jupiter.

NASA has released two interactive experiences to bring the wonders of Mars to the public. The first is an interactive map of the Perseverance rover’s path across the Red Planet, and the second is a 3D experience that allows Earthlings to see Perseverance’s environment in multiple checkpoints along its journey so far.Read more...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that it was ordering Enbridge Energy to pay $3.3 million for damaging a sensitive aquifer during the construction of the controversial Line 3 pipeline. It turns out the water protectors’ opposing the pipeline may have been onto something.

If there’s a better afternoon treat than a four-minute gag real from director James Gunn’s wonderfully wicked The Suicide Squad, chances are we’re not getting one today. One punny warning, though—this gag reel might actually make you gag, depending on how you feel after watching James’ brother Sean feverishly lick a…Read more...

A team of physicists at the University of Cambridge suspects that dark energy may have muddled results from the XENON1T experiment, a series of underground vats of xenon that are being used to search for dark matter.

The Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park is a wash of green and brown hues and undulating textures. But amidst that familiar landscape, something new has appeared.

Doctor Who has been on TV long enough to transition through so many evolutions of the medium and survived in spite of some shoddy archiving techniques in the process. So much of what remains of the show’s earliest years is, of course, still in black and white—and while the BBC itself has made attempts to colorize Who’s…Read more...

The all-civilian Inspiration4 crew has been in orbit for nearly two days, yet we’ve heard very little about what’s going on up there. SpaceX’s first private crewed mission to space has most certainly been that—private. The unexpectedly muted approach has made it anything but inspiring.

Attempting to lure cord-cutters to smart TVs and Chromecast streaming devices, Google is reportedly considering plans to add several FAST (free, ad-supported streaming television) channels to Google TV this fall.Read more...

In an interview with CNBC that aired Wednesday, Mike Wirth, the CEO of Chevron, said that it would not invest in renewable energy, instead allowing its shareholders to use money earned from the company and “let them plant trees.” Glad he came right out and said it!Read more...

The Wall Street Journal has had something of a banner week tearing down Facebook. Its series on a trove of internal company documents obtained by the paper has unveiled Facebook’s secret system for treating certain users as above the rules, company research showing how harmful Instagram is for young girls, how the…Read more...

As famous as he is, George R.R. Martin is not above Googling himself. At least that’s the only sensible explanation for how he “stumbled on” a video clip from a 1991 interview with him in which the soon-to-be-acclaimed fantasy author was asked about his thoughts on... science fiction.

Installing a rooftop solar kit can be pricy. But the cost of affixing panels to your rooftop may not be the only factor keeping low-income communities from transitioning to the distributed, clean power source. A new study shows that even if solar installation was free, there would be another problem: The grid is…Read more...

The UK government has released a 23-item list of things it will pursue now that it’s no longer part of the European Union. And one item in particular is raising quite a few eyebrows. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government says it wants to let retailers list goods solely in imperial measurements rather than metric.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a tweet he sent out on Wednesday in support of Hong Kong, replacing it with a much more mild criticism of Beijing’s crackdown on the semi-autonomous region the following day.

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice revealed that three former U.S. intelligence operatives were facing federal charges in connection with their work for BlackMatter, a foreign cybersecurity company based in the United Arab Emirates.Read more...

Coming off Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director with The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro probably could have made anything. What he chose was Nightmare Alley, a noir thriller set at a carnival with the director’s most star-studded cast yet.Read more...

This feel really weird to write considering the state of the world we live in but here goes nothing: two of the biggest comic conventions in the United States are going full steam ahead. New York Comic Con takes place October 7-10 and it just announced its full panel, guest, and exhibitor list along with details on…Read more...

The Federal Trade Commission put health apps on notice this week with a brand new policy statement aimed at protecting the sometimes super-sensitive data that they collect from their users. In a 3-2 vote held on Wednesday, the Commission agreed to clarify a decade-old rule in order to mandate that these apps—and any…Read more...