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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you grew up with Lego in the ‘80s, you probably spent most of your time building spaceships and castles: two of the brand’s most iconic and loved themes. So to celebrate the company’s 90th birthday, Lego is resurrecting and reimagining both of those themes with two new sets that will be impossible to resist to…
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Ezra Miller Probably Doesn't Have a DC Future After The Flash
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The saga of Warner Bros.’ upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been a long one, and in recent weeks, much of it has revolved around its lead actor, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Earlier in the month, it was reported that despite Miller’s string of troubles throughout the last couple of years—which include allegedly choking a fan and being…
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Disney's Hercules Remake Gets Guy Ritchie to Direct It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] machine at Disney has been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and the remake for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has been in the works for a few years now. If you were curious who would helm this new, almost certainly James Woods-less take, Disney’s finally found the director to bring this new…
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The Return of Obi-Wan
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The 11 Best (and Worst) Sentient Robots From Sci-Fi
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this month, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] his employer had inadvertently created a sentient AI chatbot system, called [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—or LaMDA, for short. Lemoine had been tasked with seeing if the LaMDA’s programming showed any tendencies toward hate speech or…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The highly anticipated Disney Parks log flume thrill ride re-imagining—inspired by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—has officially been named [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It’s a rebrand of the attraction [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and it comes in the wake of Disney taking accountability for its problematic handling of…
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UK Man Vomits for Months, Ends Up in Hospital After Vitamin D Overdose
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Doctors in the UK say a man’s intense supplement regimen landed him in the hospital with vitamin D poisoning. In a new case report, they detail how their patient became sick soon after he started to take large doses of vitamins and minerals. Though vitamin D overdose is uncommon, the study authors say, cases seem to…
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The Stranger Things 4 Spoilers io9 Roundtable
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the fourth season of Stranger Things is now in the books. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which included [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the season saw the kids from Hawkins and beyond pushed to their limits against a terrifying new villain who, actually, isn’t that new at all.

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European Union Passes Landmark Big Tech Regulations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a final vote, the European Parliament elected to adopt both the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Tuesday. The two related pieces of legislation aim to address some of the major emerging issues of internet and social media companies. The DSA is focused on boosting the efficacy and…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] dropped earlier this week. The conceit of the show, based on Capcom’s long-running [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]franchise, is the franchise’s long running baddies, the Umbrella Corporation, have established a utopia haven called New Raccoon City in the year 2022. But in 2036, where the…
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Oni Press' Future Uncertain as Layoffs and Unpaid Labor Allegations Mount
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For fans of comics and graphic novels, the Eisner-award publisher Oni Press is best known for works such as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Scott Pilgrim, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But just days ahead of this year’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Oni has announced its plans to not attend the convention. And following that sudden news,…
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The Dark Knight Rises Ended Superhero Cinema's Era of Isolation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Several of the retrospectives we’ve done this month have been focused on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It’s just the nature of the beast, but Marvel’s Distinguished Competition—aka DC—has a pretty big landmark of its own to celebrate in the year of 2022. That’s right, it’s time to talk about our old pal, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Gen V is the Name of The Boys' College Spinoff
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With how popular [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has become over its three-season run, it’s no surprise that Amazon wants to do [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The first taste of this was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], an animated anthology featuring a star studded cast and bloody action on par with the core series. And now, after talking about the series for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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11 Times Selfies Turned Tragic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Summer’s officially here, which means—for a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of you— you’re taking some well-deserved time off to do a bit of traveling. If you’re doing that, then let’s be honest, you’re going to take a few shots of yourself while you’re away, and you wanna get your selfie game on lock.
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What Does Ms. Marvel's Finale Mean for Kamala Khan?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Leading up to the release of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]on Disney+, the big point of discussion surrounding the show was the way it revamped Kamala Khan’s (Iman Vellani) powerset. Rather than being an Inhuman with the ability to polymorph and grow or expand her body, Kamala came into possession of a family heirloom that allowed her…
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Even Chris Pratt Doesn't Wanna Play Indiana Jones
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With how much Hollywood loves casting hot, young actors to inhabit the roles previously held by veterans, it seems inevitable that we will get ourselves a new Indiana Jones. After all, Harrison Ford turned 80 earlier this week, and the upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]is very likely going to be the last time he dons that hat…
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Namor's Swimming Back Into the Spotlight With a New Solo Comic
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Netflix's Yu Yu Hakusho Begins to Reveal Its Cast
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in 2020, Netflix announced their plans to bring [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]to live action. Yoshihiro Tagashio’s 1990 manga became one of the foundations of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as we know it today alongside One Piece and Dragon Ball, and though its 1994 anime was a bit hit in Japan, it would get overshadowed by Dragon Ball Z once it…
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Good Luck if You're Forced to Use These Hideous Federal Websites
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You don’t need to be a user interface designer to spot a bad-looking site. Hell, anyone who spent any time on the internet in the days pre-Facebook might remember bland, white webpages, tiny font, and links upon links upon links like a black hole slowly sucking you into the great whirlpool expanse of incomprehensible…
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This Week's Toy News Is a Bounty of Primes and Peters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys on the internet. This week, it’s a veritable Spider-smorgasbord, as both Hasbro and Hot Toys get in on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hype. But there’s also [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hot rods, cool G.I. Joe rides, and perhaps the coolest ride of all: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Check it out!

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Owen Wilson Is Iron Man With Kids in the Superhero Comedy Secret Headquarters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Imagine if Batman had an Iron Man suit, as well as a son, and that his son and his friends [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. That’s the general setup of Secret Headquarters, a new movie coming to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on August 12, and the first trailer is here.
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Star Trek Release Dates: When to Expect All the New and Returning Shows
Trying to keep track of what’s coming in the realm of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]feels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], as well as returning [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and what else is in the works right now. Engage!

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Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'
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The Boys' Eric Kripke Would Like to Emphasize That He Makes Television, Not Movies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a recent interview with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ showrunner Eric Kripke was very clear: he makes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], not movies.
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Spoilers of the Week: July 15th
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Writer Gets Locked Out of Novel Draft by Chinese Word Processor for Illegal Content
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Chinese software developer is facing backlash after a writer accused its word processing software WPS of locking her out of a novel draft, claiming that the document contains “sensitive content.” WPS has denied the claims, but more users have come forward with similar experiences, raising concerns over the extent of…
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Thor: Love and Thunder Failed the Mighty Thor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jane Foster stands at the gates of Valhalla, having earned a warrior’s rest after making a sacrifice so worthy that even she, a mortal, had gained the respect of Asgard’s fallen heroes. But she waits a moment, turning from the gates of eternal paradise. All she can say is “I wasn’t ready to die.”

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QAnon Supporter Resurrects JFK Jr.'s Magazine George and Puts Trump's Face on the Cover
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the mid-1990s, one of the most popular magazines around was George, a monthly founded by John F. Kennedy Jr. that focused on politics and pop-culture, and featured big, glossy images of celebrities on its covers. After Kennedy [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in 1999, however, the magazine went downhill and ultimately ceased…
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New Report Shows Criminals Are Mixing Crypto Streams to Conceal Revenue
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When crypto transactions remain transparent on the blockchain, just how hard is it to conceal when digital currency is trading hands in a not-so-legal fashion?
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How to Make Your Web Browser as Secure as Possible
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Your web browser is your window to the outside world, but it goes two ways—it’s also the window through which viruses, malware and other nasties can get access to your computer. With that in mind, it’s vital that you take some time to lock down your browser of choice as much as possible from a security perspective,…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even the most open-minded person might be skeptical about buying a ticket to see a live-action movie about a talking shell with a one googly eye wearing tiny tennis shoes. It’s just not an image one easily gets their head around. And yet, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Marcel the Shell With…
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Researchers Create Wireless Earbuds That Could Greatly Enhance the Future of Noise Cancelling
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Active noise cancellation has become one of the most useful features in modern wireless headphones, and thanks to a team of researchers from the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the technology that intelligently silences unwanted background noises during a conversation could soon take a giant leap forward.
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Anonymous Q&A App NGL Is Posing as Your Friend
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There once was a time when Internet users occupied what was once “Ask me anything” and “Like for a truth.” These anonymous confession trends have basically become NGL, which is an app where users receive anonymous questions from friends, but a recent lawsuit alleges that might not be the case.

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Baseball Fans Might Be Ready for Robo Umpires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Baseball isn’t exactly a sport known for its technological innovation but new data suggest fans, or a sizable chunk of them at least, are ready to embrace automation.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to overnight tweets from the Tesla CEO. The allegations of a relationship were made in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Sunday night and supposedly explains why Brin has been recently divesting from anything to…
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House of the Dragons' Extended Comic-Con Trailer Has More Houses, More Dragons
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] wowed us earlier in the week with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] setting the stage for a Game of Thrones prequel so full of dragons, civil war, and political intrigue that, well, you’d be convinced it’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But while we had to wait compared to folks who were at Comic-Con yesterday, we’ve…
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On Westworld, the Gods Are in Heaven But Nothing's Right With the World
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After last week’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] could have taken it easy this week. But after its lackluster third season, the show has returned to its roots of heady, thoughtful science fiction, and clearly has no intention of pulling up and retreating. While tonight’s episode isn’t as thrilling as last…
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New Dragon Ball Super Movie Trailer Gives Gohan and Piccolo the Spotlight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While Dragon Ball’s Goku may have saved the universe a few times, he was also an absentee father. Sure, he was dead some of the time, but that still left his son Gohan to be partially raised and trained by Goku’s former foe Piccolo. But the two bonded—and that bond will be retested when the new Dragon Ball Super:…
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A Flood of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Toys Are on the Way
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just like how great power comes great responsibility, a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] comes with toy companies’ ability to finally show off merchandise for it without spoiling anything. But this gallery of Hasbro’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] action figures and the traditional legion of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] might hold…
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Tell Us Your Favorite San Diego Comic-Con 2022 Announcements
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con has been nothing short of big, as it likely intended to be as we continue the pandemic age.

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Marvel Picked the Worst Show to Accidentally Put Regé-Jean Page In the Cast List
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] panel on Saturday night, Marvel sent out a press release to a bunch of press-release-hungry journalists. On this press release was a cast list for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a show about shape-shifting aliens, which included [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] name. Marvel quickly realized the error after publications…
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Power Rangers are Getting "Recharged," Teaming Up with the Ninja Turtles Again
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in 2020, Boom Studios had the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] team up with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the aptly named Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/TMNT.As written by Ryan Parrott and drawn by Simone di Meo and Walter Baiamonte, the crossover did exactly what the title implies, with the highlight of the whole thing being…
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Comic-Con '22: Archer Team Remembers Jessica Walter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The cast and creative team for Archer put on their annual Indigo Ballroom panel for the upcoming[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]on FXX. While we got a preview for future events, the panel focused on the absence of beloved cast member [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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The Most Awesome Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Day 3
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s the last day of San Diego Comic-Con, and sadly, our cosplay slideshow. Days [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] had fans go all out with their creativity, and the final day was no exception. Without further ado, here’s the final batch of photos we’ve put together for your viewing pleasure.

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Marvel's Next Big Thing is Some Big Comic Book Stories
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con made it clear that the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is about to get big in more ways than one. With the newly branded [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] laying down nearly all its cards, it’s easy to sometimes forget that in the comics, things are just as tumultuous on page as they are on screen.…
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Surprising No One, DC's Dark Crisis is an Infinite Earths Sequel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You may recall that a few months back, DC Comics decided to go ahead and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as the inciting incident for their big event of the year, Dark Crisis. Over the last several months, DC’s been quick to assure us that there wouldn’t be a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but since the thing has “Crisis” in the…
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Evil's Katja Herbers on Why 'Chaotic, Unhinged' Kristen Is Her Favorite Version of the Character
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] now [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], members of the cast assembled at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to chat about the current state of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—plus offer a sneak peek at what’s to come as we slither toward the season finale [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Teen Titans Go Has Got Zack Snyder to Guest Star...Yes, Seriously
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every now and then, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]loves to bring in a real life celebrity who will either gleefully bully the titular heroes, or let said heroes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by the special guest star. (Assuming they don’t team up to fight a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or some such.) Next on the list of guest celebrities is Zack Snyder,…
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The Keanussance Continues with BRZRKR Anime Adaptation for Netflix
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Keanu Reeves has spent the last near decade moving from different parts of the entertainment industry. Both The Matrix Resurrections and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]proved that he could hack it in games, he’s had a really good streak of action and comedy films with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]and Always Be My Maybe, and he co-wrote the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Chucky's Season 2 Trailer Promises Diabolical Delights Galore
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’ve known [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]would return [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—welcome but not entirely surprising news, considering that the series (creator [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s continuation of the campy, creepy Child’s Play movies) was a huge hit in its first season. We got [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] earlier in July announcing the October 5 premiere date,…
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Hulu's The Orville Will Soon Be Available for Streaming on Disney+
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] unfortunately didn’t bring much in the way of news—still no word on whether or not [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will be getting a fourth season, for instance—but series creator, writer, producer, and star [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] did drop one promising nugget: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will soon also be…
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Everything We Just Learned at Marvel's Incredible San Diego Comic-Con Panel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] just tore the roof off of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], taking to the con for the first time properly since 2019 with a boatload of new looks at what’s to come on screens big and small for the MCU. io9 was there to cover it all—but in case you need a reminder of what just went down, here’s what you need…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's First Teaser Is Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just how could the MCU continue to expand the world of Wakanda after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Chadwick Boseman? We just got a taste, as Marvel [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to give us a look at Ryan Coogler’s daunting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Fantastic Four Will Lead Marvel's Phase 6, Alongside 2 New Avengers Movies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Although we don’t have any details on cast or crew, we do have a few new dates to report for the long-anticipated new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] film. At the Marvel theatrical panel during San Diego Comic-Con it was revealed that Fantastic Four will release in theaters on November 8, 2024.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s easy to forget that four years ago James Gunn [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The whole situation was messy—but as a result, when the filmmaker took the stage in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to reveal the first footage from the long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel, it was more than just a…
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Ant-Man 3: Quantumania First Look Has Plenty of Mania, Bill Murray... and MODOK?! [Updated]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the next on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s docket, so it should be no surprise the studio had something to show from the movie at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately, while it’s not coming online, we got to see it—which means we got…
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She-Hulk Smashes Into a New Trailer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Marvel’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]is set to premiere later this year, and is aiming to take a more comedic tone than the other Disney+ properties, the trailers billing the new show as a kind of sitcom with some superheroing thrown in. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] stars as Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner’s cousin, an attorney who just wants to do…
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Marvel Just Announced Phase 5 Release Dates
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kevin Feige, after teasing Marvel fans during [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], has officially revealed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve known that something big was in the pipeline [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], so while this isn’t a surprise, it’s always interesting to see the full plan laid out and speculate about…
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We're Liveblogging Marvel's Comic-Con Hall H Panel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This time, this place [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Kevin Feige and like, 50 of his most famous friends helped lift the lid on Marvel’s plans for phase 4 at one of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to grace San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. What could he bring with him? Come join us and find out.

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Russian Cosmonaut Forced to Abandon Spacewalk Due to Spacesuit Power Malfunction
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] didn’t exactly go as planned, as one cosmonaut’s spacesuit malfunctioned, forcing him to head back inside the International Space Station (ISS) due to an unexpected drop in voltage.
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Another Major New Spider-Person Possibly Revealed From Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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These Arctic Fish Are Full of Antifreeze
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Birdemic 3 Teases Climate-Change Horrors and Feathery Mayhem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you love ultra-low-budget, dare we say [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (but in-on-the-joke schlocky, not “we think we’re making a masterpiece” schlocky) horror movies—well, you are well familiar with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] saga Birdemic. The original (2010's Birdemic: Shock and Terror) caused a sensation... and kick-started a cult franchise…
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Google’s Investing Arms are Pumping $1.56 Billion Into Blockchain Companies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Do you think of Google as a “Web3” company? No? Well at least as far as their investing portfolio is concerned, they’re deeper into blockchain and crypto technology than any other top publicly traded company, by far.
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Tesla's Humanoid Robot Is Being Built to Mow Your Lawn
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The robots are coming...to relieve you of doing the dishes. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed new details about Optimus, an artificial intelligence humanoid robot which he envisions will take over so-called “boring” tasks at your average household.
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YouTuber Banned Over Viral $2 Empanada Tantrum Says His Apology Was Fake
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Spanish YouTuber who fell from grace—although it’s doubtful that a man who hospitalized a stranger with an electric shaver ever had grace—wants you to know that his 8-minute apology video was fake. Borja Escalona had enraged much of Spain after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for declining to give him a $2 empanada for free…
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George R.R. Martin Is Sick of Telling You When He Might Finish His Books
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Happy Anniversary to Kelly Rowland Texting Nelly on a Spreadsheet
Fresh off the heels of “Hot in Herre,” Nelly blessed the public with yet another hit: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] The R&B song was released in June 2002 and features Kelly Rowland as a woman smitten with Nelly despite being in a relationship with someone else. The song is a staple in Y2K music culture, and today is actually a special…
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West Nile Virus Found in Record Number of NYC Mosquitos This Summer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The West Nile virus is having a great summer in New York City. Health officials this week reported that at least two people have recently contracted the viral illness, while a record number of mosquitoes are estimated to be carrying it currently. Officials are warning people to use repellant and wear protective…
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Wednesday Can Torture Her Own Past, Thanks
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TikTok Aims to Squash Paid Political Influencers, Launches 'Elections Center'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is rolling out new features and doubling down on lessons learned from the 2020 Elections as we head into the midterms this November. The social media giant wants influencers to know that paid political content and ads are not allowed. The app is also launching an Elections Center to connect its young and…
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Superman & Lois Will Recast Jonathan Kent
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Controlling Your Smarthome Could Soon Be Like Using a TV Remote
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we got a sneak peek at a radical new way to interact with the myriad of smart devices in our homes. It was a point and click iPhone app that eliminated the need for voice commands or jumping between device specific apps. But it turns out developer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] wasn’t just a concept;…
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Xochitl Gomez on Working With Sam Raimi
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We've Already Got at Least One Avenger Confirmed For Secret Wars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Get a look at the Addams Family from Netflix’s Wednesday. She-Hulk’s showrunner Jessica Gao teases a big question from the show’s first post-credits scene. Plus, get another look at the Supernatural prequel series. To me, my Spoilers!

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Airbnb Says They're Here to End the Party, Once and for All
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The short-term rental app Airbnb announced back in June they were making a partial prohibition on parties [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, they’re updating their software in the hopes it will nip any thoughts of backyard blowouts in the bud.

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Adonit's $45 Stylus Magnetically Charges Off the iPad, Just Like Apple's $129 Pencil
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Although Steve Jobs condemned the tool when he announced the iPhone, a stylus is now essential for many artists working on the iPad. But the 2nd generation Apple Pencil isn’t a cheap accessory, and if you’ve already dropped a small fortune on an iPad, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] offers much of the same functionality for…
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Elon Musk Says Tweet About Buying Manchester United Was a Joke, Surprising No One
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Most Pregnancy Apps Are Terrible at Keeping Your Data Private: Report
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Log on to your Apple Store or Google Play account, and you’ll find dozens of apps that say they’ll keep track of your time of the month or that’ll help you know the status of your little bun in the oven. They’re also keeping track of you, and it’s become increasingly apparent since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the…
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One of Our Favorite Extra Durable Waterproof Wireless Speakers is Getting a Battery Life Boost
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The biggest selling point of a wireless Bluetooth speaker is that it can be used anywhere, with 2019's Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 taking that to the extreme with full waterproofing and even the ability to float when dunked. As tiny speakers without smart assistants go, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is one of our favorites, but…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Universal Studios Orlando just unveiled its full slate for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and it’s scary good. This year includes 10 haunted houses, five scare zones, two live shows, as well as an after-hours selection of the theme park’s ride attractions (Petition to keep [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] open during the event).

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Inu-Oh's Gender Politics Are Anime Performance Art
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Like the Transformers, These New Stamps Reveal More Than Meets The Eye
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s no secret that despite the massive boon in online shopping and packages needing delivery, traditional mail service is struggling. No one writes nice letters to each other any more, but that could soon change as the Royal Mail in the UK is about to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] featuring heroes that…
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Lawmakers Demand FBI, DHS, and Others Reveal Purchases of Personal Data That Circumvent Warrants
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two top Democrats in the House of Representatives have issued requests to a host of federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, demanding details of alleged purchases of Americans’ personal data. The lawmakers accuse the seven federal agencies of using commercial dealings…
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Disney's Latest Theme Park Ride Movie Is Big Thunder Mountain
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Don't Worry Y'all, Facebook Says It's Totally Prepared for the 2022 Midterms
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Hackers Attack UK Water Supplier, Apparently Send Ransom Demand to the Wrong Company
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hackers infiltrated the corporate-side of a utility that supplies water to about 1.3 million people in the United Kingdom. However, the apparent data breach may not have been the one the cyber-criminals were aiming for.

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Russia Now Wants to Build Its Own Space Station Before Leaving the ISS
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Roscosmos just revealed a model of its own space station to rival the International Space Station (ISS) in a move that outlines the Russian space agency’s plans following its debated departure from the orbiting station.

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Why She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Tweaked the Character's Origin Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]She-Hulk comic book fans [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] later this week when the character finally [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In the comics, the character’s origin happens when Jennifer Walters, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is shot in a mob hit. Her cousin tries to save her but…
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Sony Might Be Going All-in on PC Gaming, Spider-Man Files Reveal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With its recent high profile PC releases of formerly exclusive games like God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, Sony seems to be making a shift to marketing its video game arm as a hybrid console-PC company. Now, newly datamined files pointing to a PlayStation PC game launcher could mean the company wants to ape Xbox in…
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Martian Explorers Could Produce Oxygen Using Plasmas
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Mars: If the extreme temperatures and exposure to cosmic radiation don’t kill you, the unbreathable air certainly will. Now, a team of researchers has proposed a method of addressing the latter issue, by using plasma to split carbon dioxide—of which Mars has plenty—into carbon and oxygen.
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Dems Threaten Homeland Security Watchdog Over 'Obstruction' of Probe Into Secret Service Texts
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DC Release Dates: When to See DCEU Movies and HBO Max Shows
Marvel’s streaming shows and movies may still steal the majority of the headlines, but the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is finally giving the MCU a run for its money. The DCEU’s myriad projects are stretching far beyond superhero mainstays [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], promising to include [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Watch Live: Russian Cosmonauts Install a Robotic Arm Outside the ISS
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8 Bugs Scientists Want You to Squash Immediately
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Wolfgang Petersen, Director of The NeverEnding Story and Outbreak, Has Died
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Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Finally on the Way
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over-the-counter hearing aids in the U.S. are officially becoming a reality. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration finalized the regulations needed for hearing aids to become widely available without a prescription. These OTC aids may save money for millions of Americans with poor hearing and are expected to…
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China's Mysterious Spaceplane Still Hasn't Landed Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]China recently launched a secretive reusable spaceplane, and the mysterious spacecraft is still flying around with no information on when it is meant to land. The experimental spaceplane missed an opportunity to land early Monday as it flew right over its landing site, and has now flown higher and longer than before.
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The Gaming Shelf Slips Into Memory and Magic
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Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Gets a Movie Long Premiere With Two Episodes Dropping
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Director [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) will set up the world of Middle Earth in its second age with his two episodes debuting as the premiere of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And we’re going to get eight episodes full of the rich and dense Tolkien for a new generation.
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Apple Reportedly Begins Layoffs as It Prepares for Yet Another Return-to-Office Push
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She-Hulk Charms Critics With Its Leading Lady and Sit-Com Stylings
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How to Watch the Rollout of NASA's Megarocket Ahead of Artemis I Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s most powerful rocket is ready to make its way to the launch pad before its inaugural launch as part of the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon. The space agency is rolling out the enormous Space Launch System (SLS) to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday evening, and the historic kickoff to humanity’s…
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An AirTag Led to the Arrest of a 19-Year-Old Serial Luggage Thief, Police Say
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HBO and HBO Max Reality Show Staff Get 'Red Wedding' Treatment
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Shadowy Oil and Gas Interests Are Deciding Texas' Energy Fate
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The future of Texas’ troubled electric grid is beingdecided in the dark, with zero public input, by a group of people with deep connections to the fossil fuel industry. A panel of oil-and-gas-heavy experts appointed to create a plan to reform the Texas grid are refusing to make their draft recommendations public…
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Funky Taste Prompts Capri Sun Recall
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of cases of Capri Sun after revealing that they were contaminated with diluted cleaning solution. The recall specifically affects Wild Cherry flavored Capri Sun with a “Best When Used By” date of June 25, 2023.

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Android 13 Is a Subtle Improvement Over Android 12
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Android 13 is here for Google’s Pixel devices, and if you’re wielding a compatible model, you can grab the software now by requesting the over-the-air update in the settings panel. The software update is available for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and up, including the latest [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] release. Note that this is a staggered rollout, so…
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How Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Others Delay Action on Plastic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] like Coca-Cola says it’s working to solve the plastic crisis, what does that really look like? An [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] published Friday by Bloomberg documents how one initiative in Ghana was used by some of the world’s biggest plastic producers to battle against threats of plastic bans, while…
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New Users Have Flocked to Trump's Truth Social in the Aftermath of FBI Raids
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Donald Trump-owned social media site, Truth Social, has seen a big influx of interest and new users following last week’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the former president’s Florida home.

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Fitbit Murder: Husband of Slain Wife Sentenced to 65 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Richard Dabate, the husband of 2015 murder victim Connie Dabate, was sentenced to 65 years in prison on Thursday. Prosecutors say that Richard Dabate’s police statements describing the murder did not match data present on Connie’s wearable activity tracker, Fitbit.

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A 'Fast-Moving' E. Coli Outbreak Is Hospitalizing People in the Midwest, CDC Warns
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising alarm over what it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as a “fast-moving” outbreak of Escherichia coli bacteria. At least 29 people in Michigan and Ohio have been sickened by the same strain, while nine have been hospitalized, but more cases may emerge. A clear cause for the foodborne…
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This Week's Toy News Has Big Dome Energy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest in nerdy toys and merchandise. This week, ignore that it’s summer and get excited about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] twist! In the meantime, Lego shines a light, and Hot Toys enters the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Check it out!
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Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Cuts Majority of Staff, Mentions Police Investigation After Ending Withdrawals
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Crypto exchanges and lenders are still struggling to “hodl” onto their employees. As companies fight to keep afloat after the most recent crypto crash, hundreds of exchanges staff are being kicked to the curb, and some are reportedly trying to keep that fact a secret.
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12 Photos That Show the Extreme—and Extremely Weird—Sides of Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The natural world is filled with moments of wonder and terror—and it’s those moments that are captured in the finalists of this year’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The photo contest, now in its second year, is intended as a creative showcase of the work that ecologists and evolutionary biologists…
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Star Trek Release Dates: When to Expect All the New and Returning Shows
Trying to keep track of what’s coming in the realm of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]feels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], as well as returning [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and what else is in the works right now. Engage!

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The Epic Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Soundtrack Is Here, With a Theme by Howard Shore
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Peter Jackson’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] would be nowhere near as memorable without the musical stylings of Howard Shore. So it was only right that Amazon brought Shore back to contribute the theme to its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] show, to assist the already quite capable and exciting composer, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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YouTube's Adding a Watermark to Your Shorts When They're Shared Across Other Platforms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re thinking of downloading your [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] shorts and posting them on another platform, then YouTube is getting ready to take credit. The video sharing platform announced new features for creators of shorts, including the addition of a watermark that will soon be stamped on the brief videos when they’re shared…
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Magical Peril Abounds in This Excerpt From Claire Legrand's A Crown of Ivy and Glass
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Claire Legrand is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—her works include the Empirium Trilogy and Sawkill Girls—but next year, she’ll be releasing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The first book is titled A Crown of Ivy and Glass, and io9 is thrilled to be revealing the cover and an excerpt today.
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Meta Didn’t Bother to Translate Horizon Worlds Into Spanish When It Launched the Game in Spain
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“A palabras necias, oídos sordos.” That’s how Meta’s Horizon Worlds has been described in Spain after launching in the country earlier this week. The comment on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] —which literally means, “turn deaf ears on stubborn words”—was made in frustration over the fact that Meta didn’t seem to realize that people who…
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Hori Redesigned Its Joy-Con Controllers to Look More Like Nintendo's
How do you play the Nintendo Switch? Perpetually docked and connected to a TV like a home console, or more frequently in handheld mode as you roam the house or take potty breaks (don’t pretend you don’t)? If you’re in that latter group, the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] should make your handheld experience feel [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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For All Mankind, io9 Owes You an Apology
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Washington State Entomologists Ask: 'Have You Seen This Huge Moth?'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Washington State entomologists are asking people to be on the lookout for a potentially problematic newcomer to the state: the Atlas moth. Fortunately, the insects are pretty hard to miss, with their nearly 10-inch wingspans and distinctive diamond markings.

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This Throwing Knife Launcher Is an Amazing and Terrifying Feat of Engineering
Steven Seagal makes knife throwing look effortless in movies like Under Siege, but it’s actually an incredibly hard skill to master if you don’t have Hollywood’s movie magic helping you out. That’s what Quint, of the YouTube channel Quint BUILDs, was lacking. But with some [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], they managed…
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The Next Mobile Suit Gundam Series Kicks Off Early This September
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TikTok's In-App Browser Has Code to Track Users’ Inputs and Activity
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tick tock goes the clock. It seems that every day we find more examples of the ways some of the most popular social media apps are collecting data on users. Now TikTok itself seems to be wound up pretty tight about allegations they’re keylogging users using code found inside the in-app browser.
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Users Beware: Apple Announces Security Flaw Affecting iPhones, iPads, and Macs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple has warned of a major security flaw in some recent operating systems of Mac, iPhones, iPads, and some iPods that could allow hackers to take control of your devices.

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Wake Up, Sleepyhead, The Sandman Just Dropped Another Episode
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Photos Show Shockingly Low Water at New Mexico's Largest Reservoir
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Like Lake Mead and Lake Powell along the Colorado River, New Mexico’s largest reservoir has reached alarmingly low levels. Photos taken last week at Elephant Butte Reservoir, which is located along the Rio Grande, show stark “bathtub rings”—mineral lines that show where the water levels previously sat—and huge…
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Updates From Enola Holmes 2, House of the Dragon, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Legendary Monsterverse TV show’s cast continues to expand. Get a cryptic look at Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Club. Plus, what’s to come on Resident Alien and Tuca & Bertie. To me, my spoilers!
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How To Use Snapchat on the Web and Leave Your Phone in Your Pocket
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Snapchat enthusiasts have a new way of accessing the social media app: You can now get at it through your web browser if you sign up [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which means you can leave your phone in your pocket or desk drawer and do all of your Snapchatting via your mouse and keyboard. If you’re wondering if…
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Here Are All 60 Games That Will Be on the Sega Genesis Mini 2
We know that Sega is making a follow-up to its game-filled miniature throwback console, and we know that it’s going to be released in both Japan (as the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) and in North America (as the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) on October 27. But today, Sega of America has finally revealed the full game roster for the…
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High-Speed Internet Comes to Mount Kilimanjaro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tens of thousands of tourists (estimates range from about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]-[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] thousand) attempt to summit Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro each year. And you can best believe lots of those climbers are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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The Panasonic Arc6 Electric Razor Is Like Driving a Rolls Royce Across Your Face
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Once a war only waged amongst disposable razors, the engineering challenge of cramming as many blades as possible onto a razor has taken over electric shavers too. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] manages to squeeze in six cutting implements to hack and slash away all your stubble in fewer swipes, but does it outperform lesser razors…
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Bite Into Fake Futurism at Elon Musk’s Tesla Drive-In Theater
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What comes to mind when you think of a drive-in? Maybe it’s a memory of sitting in your parents’ car, nodding off in the backseat during a mediocre film about talking hamsters? Perhaps trips to the drive-in became a pandemic habit? Or maybe, upon hearing the word drive-in, you immediately think of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Jordan Peele's Nope and Us Will Cross Over at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]To this we say—YES. Jordan Peele’s current horror hit [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and his 2019 chiller Us will cross over as part of Universal Studios’ seasonal [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] “Terror Tram” attraction in Hollywood, CA.
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Everything We Know about House of the Dragon

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All the Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering News Conjured Up Today
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] staged a live, post-[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] level panel for fans earlier today, and it didn’t skimp on the announcements. A ton of new announcements, releases, and surprises concerning [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] were revealed today during “Wizards Presents”—enough that I’m pretty sure…
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Western States Blow Past Deadline to Come Up With a Water Conservation Plan
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Colorado River, which provides drinking water to about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] people in the U.S., is in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Widespread and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (worsened by climate change), coupled with ongoing high water demand, have left the river and the reservoirs along it at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This week, a key deadline for decisive…
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Facebook and Instagram Boot RFK Jr’s Notorious Anti-Vax Group From Their Platforms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One of the most prolific and notorious anti-vaxxer online communities no longer has a home on either Facebook or Instagram as Meta reportedly took down both of their accounts for spreading misinformation, the company confirmed.
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I Hate Fairyland Is Back and Looks Fully Bananas
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The long wait for Gert’s return is almost over. This November, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] I Hate Fairyland is back after four years away—and, from the looks of these covers and pages exclusive to io9, it’s as energetic, violent, and funny as ever.
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These Are the 2022 Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Winners
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An elephant tosses up a cloud of dust, a grizzly bear leans into the camera lens, and a moth leaves a ghostly trail across the night sky. These are some of the finalists the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] contest, showcasing our planet’s dazzling residents and the places they call home. Over 8,000 images were…
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Some Lucky U.S. Northerners Might See the Aurora Thursday and Friday
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you happen to live on the northern end of the U.S., and you’re not completely engulfed by ambient light pollution, you might be in for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial light show, though a lot of things have to happen to make the aurora borealis, often called the Northern Lights, appear overhead.
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House of the Dragon's Cast and Crew on HBO's Return to Westeros
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There will be more fire (yay, dragons!) and blood (those family feuds) when [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] arrives to dig into the history of House Targaryen. Based on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the HBO Original drama will expand on Westeros’ past and the battle for the Iron Throne [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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She-Hulk Deals With Some MCU Taboos
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The Exhaustive History of Every George R.R. Martin Winds of Winter Update
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been over a decade since the last book in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], hit shelves. Game of Thrones has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. House of the Dragon, the first of multiple planned spinoffs, is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And in all that time, we’ve been waiting for The Winds of Winter to howl. And yet, here we…
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$2.8 Million for One Treatment: These Are the Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The U.S. healthcare system is, to put it lightly, a complete trash fire. Compared to people living in other well-off countries, Americans are overall [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Adding insult to injury, Americans also have to pay more for their health care, and a large part of that added cost comes from…
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The Best Back to School Gadgets For Cramped College Dorms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Whether your campus stay involves a college’s dormitory, trying your luck at a nearby frat house or sorority, or venturing out on your own in your first apartment, odds are you’re not going to have a lot of living space if your pursuit of higher learning takes you out of town.
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Janet Jackson's Banger 'Rhythm Nation' Could Crash People's Laptops
In more [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Janet Jackson’s 1989 dance-pop song “Rhythm Nation” is making headlines today, but not because it’s an amazing song, but because the tune could apparently crash people’s hard drives with a weird frequency.

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No, She-Hulk Wasn't Lying About Captain America's Sex Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yes, what you heard in the credits scene of She-Hulk is true. And it came from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Chemists Found a Way to Break Down Dangerous 'Forever Chemicals'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]They’re everywhere. In the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the soil we grow our food in—decades of industrial and commercial production and use have left basically no corner of our lives untouched by PFAS ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]), commonly called ‘forever chemicals.’ The two most important things to know…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Four months ago, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a personal drone that was supposed to join Spectacles as a pillar in capturing candid moments less invasively than a smartphone. It’s barely had time to get off the ground, but according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Snap has already halted development on future versions of the drone.
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10 Important Life Lessons From Rick and Morty Season 5
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Hundreds of Unionized Google Staff Push for More Abortion Protections
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]More than 650 members of the Alphabet Workers Union, the recently-established minority union made up mostly of Google engineering folks, demanded in a letter to company execs that their company change its broad policies in the wake of the end of Roe v. Wade.
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A ‘De-Extinction’ Company Says It’ll Bring Back the Tasmanian Tiger
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tiger) died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Now, a genetic engineering company that last year announced plans to put thousands of woolly mammoths back on the Siberian steppe has added the lost marsupial wolf to its de-extinction docket.
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She-Hulk Is Here With an MCU-Heavy Origin Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Three years ago this week, Marvel [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a series based on the popular character She-Hulk. The wait has been long, but now that show is finally here. Episode one of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is finally on Disney+; it introduces Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), a Los Angeles lawyer on the rise…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Using Tesla’s Powerwall batteries, households on the island of Miyako-jima in Japan have built out a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that can send excess power to the electric grid in their area.
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Clue Drops Bodies in a New Animated Series
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Remember when we wrote about how [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was working on a new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? This film is not that. Dewayne Perkins, an Emmy-nominated writer and actor, has been brought on to write and executive produce a new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] animated series. Tim Story and Lynn Barrie will also executive produce, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Trump Is Actively Platforming Dozens of Insane QAnon Accounts on Truth Social
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Truth Social, the Twitter-like social platform for the ultra-right and Trump sycophants, has a QAnon problem (yes, I heard your collective gasp). More than that, conspiracist accounts have become a celebrated and regular part of the greater Truth Social community, thanks to major Republican officials and the titular…
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NASA Says Megarocket Could Launch Friday as Engineers Race to Resolve Engine Issue
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s first attempt to launch its Space Launch System megarocket did not go as planned, with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] due an “engine bleed” issue. Sounds ominous, but NASA officials said Monday afternoon that a re-attempt on Friday is not out of the question.
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16 Awesome Tabletop Role-Playing Game Soundtracks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While tabletop roleplaying games might not be the first kind of game you think about when you hear “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],” there is an incredible array of songs out there that have been created specifically for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. From [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to full orchestral compositions, players and gamemasters have used music to set…
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'Climate Catastrophe': Floods Kill Over 1,100 People in Pakistan This Summer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Pakistan is being pummeled by the worst floods the country has experienced in over a decade. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the country’s climate minister, has called this a “serious climate catastrophe,” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Single-Dose 'Polypill' Found to Save Lives, Prevent Heart Attacks in Major New Trial
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A three-in-one drug combo can help people with a history of heart attacks stay healthy, new research shows. The randomized clinical trial found that people who took the bundled medication, also known as a polypill, went on to experience fewer heart attacks, strokes, or cardiovascular-related deaths than those given…
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Flood Threat Continues as Mississippi's Pearl River Crests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is urging residents to take evacuation orders seriously following heavy rainfall. The Pearl River continues to see intense flooding as it reached a crest nearly 8 feet (2.5 meters) above its flood stage.

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Apple's Secretive AR/VR Headset Might Have Two Options, Custom Processor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Is Apple secretly funding a shadowy shell company to buy up trademarks related to its in-development VR/AR headset? That’s the latest juicy speculation out of the Apple headset rumor mill over at Bloomberg. The new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] cites trademark filings in nearly a dozen countries for names like, “Reality One,” “Reality Pro,”…
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Alexandra Rowland's Epic Fantasy Romance Is a Love Letter to Fandom
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Webb Telescope Captures the Bamboozling Beauty of the Phantom Galaxy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Webb’s latest image release is a special collab with the Hubble Space Telescope. Scientists combined data from the two observatories to produce these spectacular shots of the spiral Phantom Galaxy (also known as Messier 74), about 32 million light-years from Earth.
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Leakers Allege Ava Labs Used 'Gangster Style' Legal Tactics to Screw Competing Crypto Companies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain project, is being buried in reaching allegations that they and their attorney were working in cahoots to attack market competitors “gangster style” by targeting crypto projects in class action lawsuits. Meanwhile, the attorney is clapping back, calling it a hit job…
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Andor Stars' First Fandoms
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Facebook Agrees to Settle 4-Year Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While news of Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience was making the rounds Friday night, eventually [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Twitter, attorneys at his company were preparing to settle one of the biggest lawsuits he’s ever faced —ignited by one of the biggest controversies it’s ever caused.
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Slayers Features Thomas Jane as a Vampire Hunter and We've Got the First Trailer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is hunting vampires. Honestly, that sentence alone is likely to get you [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But Slayers, which is in  theaters, on-demand, and on digital on October 21, goes beyond that. Jane’s vampire hunter needs to get into a very well-guarded vampire lair, so he uses a bunch of social media…
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Eric Kripke Says Supernatural Was Inspired by Neil Gaiman's Sandman
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last Friday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]released a feature on Neil Gaiman, an impressively extensive interview that covered the author’s storied career, starting in the ‘80s, when a then-26-year-old Gaiman began writing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]for Vertigo comics. During the interview, he related how he succeeded in an attempt to tank a Jon…
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Netflix's Ad-Supported Subscription Could Cost $7 to $9
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The time has finally come: After teasing its ad-supported plan [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Netflix is apparently considering charging users somewhere in the ballpark of $7 to $9 for the tier.

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7 Unexpected Animals That Use Tools
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists once thought that only humans and our closest relatives, chimps, were smart enough to use tools. But as our documenting of the natural world has gotten more detailed—and as we’ve become, perhaps, less haughty about our supposed superior intellect—we’ve found that many species are actually deft with sticks,…
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Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's Cast on How the Show's Elves and Dwarves Will Surprise Us
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More Details on That Wild Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks Crossover
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You might not have heard of The Lake, but this Thai creature feature will have life-size practical monsters courtesy of the legendary Jordu Schell, who has worked on movies like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Dead, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and Alien vs. Predator. Reginald the Vampire, which stars [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Jacob…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center in Florida have detected an issue with one of four Space Launch System main engines, resulting in a scrub of today’s scheduled launch.

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In House of the Dragon, It's Bad to Be the King
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Paddy Considine) is the first truly good man we’ve seen sit on the Iron Throne. After eight seasons of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Robert Baratheon, Joffrey, Cersei, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s genuinely weird to see someone ruling Westeros who cares about something more than power or sating their desires.…
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Radiant Black's Superhero World is Gearing Up for Another Crossover
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since its debut in 2020, the world of Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has quickly expanded into its own superhero universe that’s being dubbed the “Massive-Verse.” Headlining series of their own are new heroes Rogue Sun (by Ryan Parrott & Abel) and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Mat Groom & Erica D’Urso), both of…
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Power Rangers is Going Cosmic Again, and It's Bringing Back the Dino Fury Team
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Throughout [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ long, storied history, every new show offers a brand new set of Rangers to save the world. But, there have been cases of repeats: several of the Nickelodeon seasons such as Samurai and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]had their teams stick around for an additional season, with that second string of episodes…
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Spy x Family, 2022's Best Anime, Returns This Fall
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier in the year, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]debuted on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and took the anime world by storm. Created by Tetsuya Endo, the delightfully strange series stars [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Loid Forger who adopts a young girl named Anya as part of his new mission, and later gets into a fake marriage with a woman named Yor Briar to sell his…
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Open Channel: What's Your Favorite Lord of the Rings Memory?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Next week, Amazon will finally debut its fall flagship series, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This is a show that’s been in development for quite awhile, and Amazon’s spent a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of money to both get the rights to do the show and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While official reviews aren’t out …
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NASA’s Artemis Moon Landing Program: Launches, Timeline, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Not since 1972 has a human set foot on the Moon, but NASA is aiming to change that through its ambitious Artemis program. The lunar missions will kick off with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], scheduled for launch on Monday, August 29. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Marvel's Giving Monica Rambeau Her First Ever Solo Comic
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Netflix's Horizon Zero Dawn Show Finds Its Showrunners
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Which Streaming Service Will Save Batman: Caped Crusader?
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Matt Shakman on Fantastic Four Means Star Trek 4 Loses Another Director
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Artemis 1 and the First Launch of NASA’s Megarocket: What to Know
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s most powerful rocket is nearly ready to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 42-day journey to the Moon and back, but this deceptively straightforward plan involves a ton of moving parts—including a harrowing 5,000-degree reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s what you can expect from this historic mission,…
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Netflix's Resident Evil Series Won't Get a Second Season
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Meet The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's Small But Mighty Harfoots
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50,000 Houston Homes Might Not Have Flooded in Hurricane Harvey, If Not for Climate Change
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Five years ago this month, category 4 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hovered over Louisiana and Texas, stalling for more than four days, killing at least 70 people, and causing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in estimated damages.

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Failed Businesses and Tech Bros Keep Trying for Crypto Comebacks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Those of us who’ve been paying attention to new blockchain projects over this past year have noticed a strange trend. Failed or failing individuals or businesses are trying to reform their images, and it has everything to do with the still-nebulous idea of Web3.
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All 56 Targaryen Names, Ranked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The branches of the Targaryen family tree stretch far beyond the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]TV franchise. In fact, if you look to George R.R. Martin’s original [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] novels—including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], upon which [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is based—there are more than 50 named Targaryens mentioned throughout Westerosi…
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The Best Back to School Accessories for Trust Fund Babies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a myriad of gadgets and devices for cash-strapped students headed off to college to live in tiny dorm rooms and cramped apartments. But what if your college experience is the opposite, and your biggest worry isn’t about all the debt you’ll be left with from higher education, but how you can…
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The Latest News From Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
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Now is Not the Time to Buy an Apple Watch Series 3
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tree ring data taken from the timbers of a 19th century vessel found in Argentina indicate the ship was a whaler out of Rhode Island, last seen afloat over 150 years ago. The remains—exposed at low tide on a beach near Puerto Madryn, a city about 700 miles south of Buenos Aires—appear to be that of the Dolphin,…
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NASA: ‘We Are Go for Launch’ of SLS Megarocket
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See For Yourself if Google's LaMDA Bot Is Sentient Soon
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Star Trek Release Dates: When to Expect All the New and Returning Shows
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Reddit's CEO Loves Blockchain Avatars, but He Isn't Saying 'NFT'
My Reddit avatar could not look like me if it tried. None of the hair options available can really match my receding hairline that combines a widow’s peak and an ebbing ocean tide. I’m just one of those internet users who doesn’t much care how I present on an internet forum.

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Why Do Dogs Get Dementia? Large Study Finds Similar Risk Factors to Humans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dogs seem to have a lot in common with people when it comes to dementia, new research suggests. The study found that dogs face an increasingly higher risk of dementia for every year past the age of 10, and the likelihood of dementia appears to be lower for dogs that are more physically active and higher for those…
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This Week's Best Toys Are Trying to Tell You Now It's Sabotage
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Congratulations, it’s Friday, and you’ve once again found your way back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly round up of the best in toys, collectibles, and merchandise. This week a buildable [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] runs free, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] once again returns to Iron Man with its most detailed recreation of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s armor yet, and one of the…
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Read the [Redacted] Affidavit Justifying the FBI's Search of Mar-a-Lago
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Sweeping Genetic Study of Ancient Eurasians Reveals Thousands of Years of History
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Three new scientific papers provide a fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the genomes of 777 humans who lived from the Neolithic period (about 10,000 years ago) to the Ottoman period (around 1700 CE). Altogether, the research adds nuance to the story of human dispersal and connection since the dawn of…
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Neil Gaiman Fended Off Bad Sandman Adaptations by Force
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