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First there was “Florida Man,” now there’s Florida Judge.

After teasing the feature late last month, Instagram announced on Monday that anyone—verified influencer or otherwise—can tag brands and products in their posts.Read more...

While the first teaser trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder might not have pleased everybody, there was definitely one thing that might be worth getting excited about—or should I say one person who’s going to get mighty? I should, because Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster returns, Mjolnir in hand, as the Mighty Thor both in…Read more...

Dogecoiners unite! Movie theater chain AMC has welcomed some more cryptocurrencies as payment options for online and mobile purchases. In a tweet on April 15, AMC CEO Adam Aron announced that moviegoers can now pay for movie tickets and concessions using Dogecoin and Shiba Inu.Read more...

Doctor Who’s had a bit of event exhaustion lately, thanks to a schedule more dictated by the chaos of the past two years than of its own particular volition. Between Flux and the special episodes closing out Jodie Whittaker’s time as the Doctor, we’ve been taught to expect big things, exciting things, because this is…Read more...

Employees at Tesla’s Shanghai factory are reportedly being forced to live at work following a three-week shutdown due to a recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases in China. The company will hand out sleeping bags and mattresses to its employees, who will be made to sleep on the floor while operating in a so-called…Read more...

Scott Pruitt is back, baby—and as unpopular as ever. Trump’s former EPA administrator, who was forced to resign after just a year and a half in power, announced on Friday that he intends to run for a special election for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma this year. Reportedly, no one—even his former colleagues—is very excited…Read more...

Intel is learning a tough lesson after partnering with Classroom Technologies to develop a face-reading AI that detects the emotions of students on Zoom calls.

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Earlier today, the much-anticipated Thor: Love and Thunder teaser trailer arrived and sent the whole comics-hungry internet into a tizzy. The trailer is a bit all over the place, but fingers crossed the movie itself will be something more than the sum of the teaser’s parts, which appear to be frantically stitched…Read more...

The fifth and final season of the Netflix animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is coming this summer and the show is pulling out all the stops to get fans of the dino franchise interested. Case in point, the first teaser includes an absolutely classic cameo from the original film. Not a character, a…Read more...

In typical American fashion, the government has decided that the best way to fix the recent computer chip shortage is to throw more money at it.

Sea urchin die-offs are being recorded by researchers and divers near the shores of multiple Caribbean islands. According to the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA), there aren’t any clues yet as to why the urchins are dying at such quick rates. The organization is especially concerned because other forms…Read more...

There’s lots of good reasons to consider third-party alternatives when replacing or augmenting the rechargeable battery that came with your digital camera. The most obvious is price, as it’s often much cheaper to ditch the name brand when replacing a dead battery. But Nitecore has introduced another reason to kick…Read more...

It’s been a bumpy road for the three latest additions to the handheld console scene, but after a batch of bad batteries pushed its release to 2022, the quirky Playdate is finally here. Mixing a modern and retro aesthetic, this handheld with a crank isn’t for every gamer, but it has a lot of potential. I’m excited to…Read more...

NASA, after three failed attempts to complete a wet dress rehearsal of its Space Launch System, has decided to return its gigantic rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The move will likely mean further delays to the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the Moon.Read more...

Apple’s latest feature could soon be unions. The labor movement that’s been popping up at recognizable names in business has officially come to the tech giant: workers at Apple’s Grand Central retail store have begun the process of unionization, according to a story by The Washington Post.Read more...

If you’ve found that there has been a surplus of butts that needed to be kicked in your life (as well as a tragic dearth of nuts being eaten) since Ryan North and Erica Henderson’s Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comic series came to a close in 2019, fret no more. Let both butts and nuts beware, as Noreen Green and her pals…Read more...

It’s easy to imagine Alex Jones, the host of the rambling, right-wing hate channel InfoWars, turning as red as an inflamed pimple at the thought of having to pay for his lies. Now he’s likely growing purple holding his breath, trying to avoid paying out for consistently claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook school…Read more...

The Food and Drug Administration is looking into claims that Lucky Charms cereal is making people sick. However, cereal maker General Mills has said that it hasn’t found any clear link between its product and illness.Read more...

This morning, we got our first look at Thor: Love and Thunder in action, giving us glimpses of wild adventures, wilder gods, and something even more shocking: Natalie Portman will return to play Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder, but not just that. She’ll be back as Thor herself.

Over the weekend Lego revealed its next collection of accessorized minifigures and it finally features the world’s favorite not-quite-puppets and not-quite-mops performers as the Muppets finally take the stud-covered stage.Read more...

After Thor: Ragnarok, fans obviously expected Thor: Love and Thunder to be wild. Just off-the-walls bonkers nonsense from the man who does that better than anyone: writer-director Taika Waititi. Now, the first trailer is here, and it delivers on that promise and more. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is, indeed, bringing…Read more...

Steph Curry stars in a peculiar get for Nope. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on Halo. Superman & Lois, Naomi, and more tease what’s next. Plus, Riverdale teases its continued descent into hysteria with a teaser for its upcoming time travel episode. Spoilers now!

In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own…Read more...

We’ve come a long way since the early days of SMS: 160 characters per message and not a sticker in sight. The chat apps of today come packed with functionality and features, including read receipts, so that you know when your sent messages have been seen—and so your contacts know when you’ve seen their messages too.…Read more...

In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, employees at Facebook tasked with preventing “potential offline harm” found themselves under siege by a mob of a different sort. Reports of abusive content from users were flooding in. As one employee put it in an internal forum, many of the flagged posts…Read more...

It is a comforting thought that the insights of the past can ferry us through the trials of the present. We look to famous, beloved leaders for advice, whether it’s Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, or Walt Disney. We search for them on Google. What we find, however, is not a pile of pearls of wisdom but a heap of…Read more...

Elon Musk, self-proclaimed free speech “absolutist” and unabashed troll, may or may not own Twitter soon. Worth some $270 billion, the Tesla CEO already holds 9% of the company’s stock, and he’s offered $43 billion for the rest, though he said, “I’m not sure I will actually be able to acquire it.” Twitter’s board is…Read more...

Health officials in the city of Shanghai, China reported three new deaths from covid-19 on Monday, the first fatalities from the disease in nearly two years. The three people who died had not been vaccinated against covid-19, according to NPR. The last reported covid-19 death in the city was April 8, 2020.Read more...

We’re getting awfully close to the finish line, folks. Doctor Who put out its second holiday special today, Legend of the Sea Devils, and its the penultimate episode to Jodie Whitaker’s time as the Thirteenth Doctor. And just as Legend came to an end, BBC put out a teaser for the third 2022 special that heavily…Read more...

It hasn’t been terribly long since Supernatural wrapped up its ridiculously long tenure on the CW, and it didn’t take much time for the network to greenlight a prequel focused on Sam and Dean’s monster-hunting parents. The Winchesters intends to wind back the clock and shine a focus on John and Mary’s tumultuous life…Read more...

Ahoy, mateys! Doctor Who is back, albeit just for one night only, as the beginning of the end for the 13th Doctor kicked off with “Legend of the Sea Devils.” A classic monster, ancient pirates, and high seas adventures awaited—but what did you think?

If you’re on Twitter and keep up with anything related to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then chances are you’ve seen Thor: Love and Thunder trend a few times over the last few weeks as fans kindly but firmly demand Marvel release a trailer. After all, the movie’s coming out in a little over two months, and thus far,…Read more...

Sometimes it’s a fun thought experiment to imagine the possibilities, and think of what almost was. A simple change can have bigger repercussions than you may initially think, particularly when it comes to movies and their casting choices. For example: imagine a world where the DCEU’s Batman wasn’t Ben Affleck, but…Read more...

By now, we all know how much that Spider-Man: No Way Home is both a pretty good movie and also one that got basically the entire multiverse to go to a theater and see it. Some saw it once, some saw it probably two or three times, if they had the time and money to allow multiple rewatches. But for one particular fan,…Read more...

Batman’s gone through plenty of tone and vibes shifts since his inception, and moreso over the last several years. From detective noir to dinosaur romps and mecha fights, that he’s able to switch between different tones is what’s made him such a fun character. For the summer, the Caped Crusader is becoming rather…Read more...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba became a pretty big deal last year. Not only did its theatrical film, Mugen Train, make plenty of money during its theatrical box office run and become Japan’s most financially successful movie in their box office history, its second season—and the Entertainment District arc in…Read more...

The upcoming Batgirl movie is expected to be a pretty big deal when it hits HBO Max in the near future. Not just in the sense that it’s the first cinematic outing for Barbara Gordon since Batman & Robin all the way back in 1997, but also for bringing Michael Keaton back as the Caped Crusader. Sure, we’ve known for…Read more...

What does the future look like for the Fast & Furious franchise? It’s an interesting question to ask of a series that began with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) leading a crew of young crooks who were stealing DVD players and catching the attention of young cop Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker), only to later progress to…Read more...

As spring kicks into full swing, federal officials are dealing with an increasing water crisis in the parched U.S. West. The federal government said this week that it was facing the tough decision of rationing water between two of the largest reservoirs in the country, choosing between keeping the lights on for…Read more...

Kelly Bulkeley knows the value of a dream. Those few hours during which a sleeping person’s mind is most active can be crucial for processing mentally or emotionally impactful events in waking life. “There’s a lot of research suggesting that dreams simulate potential threats and dangers in our waking world in ways…Read more...

NASA’s third attempt at a modified rehearsal of the Space Launch System (SLS) came to a halt on Thursday when a leak of liquid hydrogen was detected during tanking operations. The space agency is planning another wet dress rehearsal for the Moon rocket no earlier than April 21.Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the coolest toy news on the Internet. This week, Hot Toys returns to The Empire Strikes Back’s climactic duel, Hasbro summons the might of Mighty Morphin’s power sword, Jurassic World gives you your own baby raptor, and... we all just want to hug Kirby, really. Check…Read more...

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Epic stories demand epic stakes all the time: evils to face, worlds to save, the chance for you to be, or watch or read along with, a hero who takes it all on and triumphs, only to be called into action time and time again. Final Fantasy XIV does exactly that, but in its latest chapter, it also asks you to do…Read more...

With talk about the future of DC films on the tip of everyone’s tongue, one of the smaller movies just took a giant leap forward. Riverdale’s KJ Apa and Young Sheldon’s Isabel May have been cast as Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna in the upcoming Wonder Twins movie heading to HBO Max.Read more...

Three wild bald eagles found dead in Georgia were confirmed to have died from bird flu on Thursday, increasing the toll from a recent surge in avian influenza cases that’s caused the death of tens of millions of birds in total.Read more...

One month ago Brandon Sanderson revealed that he had written four novels over the past two years, and he was Kickstarting their publication. Now, a week after the end of the crowdfunding campaign, we can definitively say that Sanderson’s project has not only become the most-funded Kickstarter ever at $41 million…Read more...

For anyone whose pockets aren’t overflowing with the cash needed for a brand new flagship device, Samsung will start selling “re-newed” versions of last year’s Galaxy S21 series at a discount. Yes, they do spell it that way.