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Did you love Netflix’s The Mitchells Vs. the Machines movie? Odds are yes, given how much audiences and critics alike enjoyed it. Now, there’s so much more to love given that the movie is getting a physical release on Blu-ray, not only loaded with extras, but with a “Katie Mitchell” cut of the film that makes the…Read more...

The Pacific Northwest is still reeling from catastrophic flooding unleashed by heavy rains last week. But residents already need to prepare for the next round of calamity.Read more...

The world may never know a distraction and procrastination tool as effective as the social media feed: an endless list of bad news, takes, comments, and ego-trips. It’s become so much a part of our lives that companies are now building computer screens specifically designed for doomscrolling, presenting these feeds…Read more...

Game Boy modding has a thriving community spanning back decades, long before investor culture began creeping into retro video game collecting and shot their prices sky-high. And these mods can get really elaborate.Read more...

Clifford the Big Red Dog will strike again. Keanu Reeves talks about what sets Matrix Resurrections apart from your usual sequel. Bruce Campbell teases the tragic stakes of Evil Dead Rise. Plus, there’s a second sinkhole on La Brea now, and Jughead sells his soul to the devil on Riverdale. Spoilers get!

The news that President Joe Biden is releasing millions of barrels of oil from a federal stockpile raises a question. Well, a few actually. Namely, wait, what the hell? We have a huge stockpile of oil?Read more...

It’s finally here: the feature that I’ve been waiting for since Google introduced it back in 2017 at its Google I/O developer conference. I remember sitting in the crowd at the Shoreline Amphitheater when Sundar Pichai showed off Google Photos’ ability to remove a fence! From a photo of a kid playing baseball! And the…Read more...

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban sent a letter to so-called “stablecoin” issuer Tether on Tuesday, asking for an explanation of how the company operates and “mints” tethers that can be exchanged for various forms of cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Why does it matter? Because some people believe…Read more...

The very real RentAHitman.com website asks visitors a simple question: “Got a problem that needs resolving?” Although the majority of people would recognize the website for what it is, a joke, there are remarkably still some that take it seriously and submit a request for murder. Wendy Wein, a 52-year-old Michigan…Read more...

The first three episodes of Prime Studios’ live-action adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series arrived just this past Friday, and if you haven’t read the books it can be... a bit much. There’s a lot of names to learn and places to keep track of, plus organizations, cultures, mythology, and lingo that…Read more...

There are only two episodes left in Doctor Who’s 13th season, a single, serialized story subtitled Flux. But when it’s over, Jodie Whittaker won’t be done playing the Thirteenth Doctor quite yet. That will only happen during the last of three Who specials that will be airing over the course of 2022. As usual, the BBC…Read more...

No doubt buoyed by word that Wheel of Time is a hit out of the gate, Amazon Studios is once again reaching into its alarmingly deep pockets to fund another genre show: an adaptation of popular BioWare and Electronic Arts video game Mass Effect.Read more...

The first stage of Star Trek: Prodigy’s launch has come to a close, as the series makes way for the arrival of Discovery’s fourth season with a brief hiatus after just five episodes. But Prodigy’s debut has temporarily ended on quite the high, both in what it wants from its young heroes, and what it might want out of…Read more...

Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are drawing Android enthusiast attention away from OnePlus, but the underdog in this battle of Android phones could be months away from regaining the spotlight.Read more...

Some bees have developed a taste for carrion, in a delightfully twisted evolutionary turn. These vulture bees, as they’re known, feature unique gut microbes that help them digest meat.

Jurors on Tuesday handed down a mixed but sweeping victory for the plaintiffs in a sprawling suit against the organizers of the disastrous 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a horde of white supremacists, Nazis, and other neo-fascists descended on the town, resulting in violent rioting and…Read more...

Though still in the early stages, it appears the U.S. appetite for experimental nuclear energy technology is on the rise. Last week, Bill Gates-founded TerraPower announced it had selected Kemmerer, Wyoming, as the site for its first “Natrium” 345 megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor. Now, the company’s technology will…Read more...

One of the big reasons Comic Book Workers United has been so vocal about its efforts to unionize within Image Comics is to show the staffers at other comics publishers who have or are currently thinking about organizing that they are not alone. Though CBWU hopes to one day play a direct role in helping workers…Read more...

Wirecutter employees are asking us to resist the temptation of their own excellent deals this Black Friday weekend and boycott the site. The Wirecutter union announced today that every member of its unit has agreed to walk out from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday in protest of the New York Times management’s alleged…Read more...

Marine biologists expect to find all sorts of strange stuff in the deep sea, but a mammoth tusk ain’t one of them.

The U.S. military is the single-biggest institutional source of carbon pollution on Earth. But the Pentagon would like you to know that it could absolutely be part of the climate solution.Read more...

Being thankful doesn’t only have to apply to the big stuff. Each day we’re all thankful for our health, friends, family, and more. As we should be. But sometimes it’s just fun to think about the less obvious stuff we’re thankful for and there’s no better time to do that than Thanksgiving. That’s why each year, io9…Read more...

New research affirms the added risk that pregnant people and their families face from covid-19. Data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that pregnant people infected with covid-19 are more likely to have a stillbirth; this link appears to have become stronger after the emergence…Read more...

Ghostbusters: Afterlife finally premiered last Friday, raking in more than $44 million over its first weekend—far more than critics and its studio, Sony, had predicted. That doesn’t mean the movie’s better than critics are saying, of course, but that’s not why I’ve brought you here today. We need to talk about a…Read more...

Tile, which dominated the Bluetooth tracker market for years, is reportedly being acquired by family location-sharing service Life360 in a deal valued at $205 million.Read more...

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance-for-hire company NSO Group over its Pegasus spyware that has been used to target Apple devices.Read more...

Astronomers announced this week the discovery of the fastest-rotating white dwarf star on record, with a spin rate of once every 25 seconds. The star is about the size of Earth but, by the team’s measurements, contains least 200,000 times more mass, making the dense little object a spinning freak of nature.

Usually your foes at school are bullies, mean teachers, and homework deadlines. But when you’re a student in Dungeons & Dragons, and the school is a magical crossover with the world of Magic: The Gathering, dangerous encounters are going to get a bit tougher to face than a paper written an hour before it’s due.

Snowflake alert. Repeat, snowflake alert: conservatives are super mad about vaccinated puppets and won’t let them into their little safe space next year, Insider reported on Monday.

Krypto, Superman’s dog and the star of Warner Bros.’ upcoming DC League of Super-Pets animated feature, is one of the more famous superheroic pets running around DC’s universe of comic books. His whole deal needs little explanation—but League of Super-Pets’ other headliners, like Ace the Bat-Hound, Chip the squirrel,…Read more...

The slow creep of U.S. carrier consolidation continues. In this installment, Verizon is getting ready to gobble up millions of new wireless subscribers now that the Federal Communications Commission has officially approved its acquisition of Tracfone, one of the country’s largest providers of subsidized mobile phones…Read more...

The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a ghastly golem and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square diarrhea probe is offering $200,000 for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in…Read more...

A processing anomaly has caused an unexpected vibration to course through the entire Webb telescope just weeks before launch. An investigation is now underway to determine if the incident somehow damaged the observatory.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden is expected to announce that he will be releasing millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in an attempt to combat soaring gas prices.

There’s so much about Hawkeye the trailers aren’t telling you. The trailers have been all about Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) traveling around New York at Christmas time, firing arrows, and getting into general mayhem. Oh, and did they mention it was Christmas time? Obviously, though, …Read more...

Joby’s GorillaPods have been a lighter, cheaper, and more flexible (pun intended) alternative to tripods for 15 years now, allowing cameras and action cams to be safely mounted and perched in seemingly impossible places. The company’s new PodZilla line isn’t meant to be a GorillaPod replacement, which is unfortunate,…Read more...

Even though there aren’t all that many things the Jurassic Park franchise has yet to put on the big screen when it comes to pitting modern day humanity against a cavalcade of genetically-engineered dinosaurs that should not exist, director Colin Trevorrow is about to try his damndest to shock audiences with his…Read more...

Microsoft’s legendary talking office supply has returned from the dead. While the jovial paperclip won’t improve your spelling or help you write a letter, Clippy is being resurrected as part of Microsoft’s new batch of emoji for Windows 11.

At the same time that Cowboy Bebop’s trio of heroes is keeping busy hunting down valuable bounties, they’re also living in the shadow of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, an organization from Spike Spiegel’s past that begins catching up with him in the present day as Netflix’s new series begins. Before Jet and Faye, it…Read more...

The newly publicized details of an arbitrator’s ruling show that the actor Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay nearly $31 million for breach of contract to the studio behind House of Cards last year—the result of numerous sexual harassment allegations that had been levied against the actor at the time, halting production.Read more...

The U.S. is tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and releasing around 50 million barrels of oil in an effort to cut down on soaring energy costs.Read more...

What Rodrigo Alfonso lacks in shooting well-lit videos, they make up for with their impressive hardware hacking skills. Through the use of a custom cartridge, this unmodified, 20-year-old Game Boy Advance can actually run 3D PlayStation games at full speed, bringing the 16-bit handheld into the 32-bit era.Read more...

There is a realm the laws of physics forbid us from accessing, below the resolving power of our most powerful microscopes and beyond the reach of our most sensitive telescopes. There’s no telling what might exist there—perhaps entire universes.Read more...

Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel’s Nocterra is coming to Netflix. The third Trolls movie is getting a limited theater run before it goes on-demand next year. Plus, what’s coming in Dexter: New Blood. Spoilers, away!

The deluge of emails hitting our inboxes shows no signs of stopping or slowing down maybe ever, so if your email service of choice is going to be in any way usable, it’s crucial that you take steps to protect your primary addresses. There are now numerous options for doing this, and you should be able to find at least…Read more...

Here’s a serious question: What even happened in 2021? For what feels like a lot of people, the year that was supposed to usher in a slide out of the Covid-19 doldrums simply came and went in the blink of an eye, with way less of the fêting, debauchery and travel than was promised. Obviously, the fact that we’re very…Read more...

GoDaddy recently learned that the impacts of a compromised password can be far-reaching. The domain registrar and web hosting platform revealed on Monday that it had experienced a security breach that disclosed up to 1.2 million email addresses for active and inactive Managed WordPress customers, as well as those…Read more...

This holiday season, Twitter has decided it wants in on shopping, so it’s partnering with one of the biggest retailers around: Walmart. The retailer is turning the social media platform into its own version of QVC for one day only this weekend, just in time to kick-off the Cyber Monday fever.Read more...

The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has called up the National Guard to assist long term care facilities, as the state struggles with a huge surge in covid-19 hospitalizations that has overwhelmed the health care system.Read more...

Your chance to watch Dune at home is over. For a month, the hit sci-fi spectacle from filmmaker Denis Villeneuve was both in theaters as well as streaming on HBO Max. However, that window has now closed, which means if you want to see Dune, you can either go to a theater or wait at home. Thankfully, the wait is rather…Read more...