Before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever released in theaters and became a juggernaut in the way most Marvel movies do, there was plenty of anticipation to see how the film would handle Namor the Sub-Mariner. Now that the film has come out, the character’s received a new surge of attention thanks to his portrayal by …
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Tony Gilroy on Andor's Post-Credits Scene and Season Two Time Jumps
It doesn’t feel like that long ago that the idea of Diego Luna’s Rogue One character Cassian Andor getting a solo series felt strange. But over the past two months and change, Andor has proven itself to be a pretty great show. Not just “great for Star Wars,” but legitimately great in a way that could easily make you…
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Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
Twitter’s new ruler Elon Musk makes so many pronouncements on the platform, it’s hard to keep track. This week alone, Musk polled Twitter users over whether he should provide “general amnesty” to suspended accounts and got into a public fight over whether the disgraced founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, owns a part of…
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This Weeks Toys Rip, Tear, Swindle, and... Comfort?
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys around on the internet. This week: Star Trek’s 1/6 figure line goes to Deep Space Nine, the hottest anime of the season gets a hot new figure, and sit back and relax Pokémon style. Check it out!

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Movie: The Retro Review
So much has happened to the Star Wars franchise in the last 14 years that it can be difficult to remember that the new canon actually began with Dave Filoni’s Clone Warscartoon. It was retroactively added into Disney’s new Star Wars stories by virtue of being a pretty good show helmed by the guy who would eventually…
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Nina West on the Importance of Kindness and Embracing Being a Fantastical Fan
Being a multi-hyphenate performer is something Nina West knows well. Winning Miss Congeniality on Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 11, partnering with Dolly Parton on a kindness campaign, making music for kids, acting opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, becoming the LGBTQ face of Disney’s Pride…
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NASA Successfully Maneuvers Orion Into Its Target Orbit Around the Moon
The uncrewed Orion capsule has reached its ultimate destination, a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft successfully executed a short trajectory correction burn earlier today.
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Transformers: Earthspark Twists the Franchise In a Great Way
The new Transformers animated series, Earthspark, is doing a lot of things that might make dyed-in-the-wool fans wary at first. It’s a family show, in that its primary focus is on its robotic heroes as they sit hand-in-hand with two young kids and their parents. It’s also not about Autobot/Decepticon conflict, in so…
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Brilliant Self-Stacking Lego Domino Machine Is Perpetually Mesmerizing
Although it’s a game that can trace its origins back over 700 years, most people know Dominoes as a fun chain reaction toy that’s actually only fun when it comes to knocking them down, not the stressful process of stacking them up. With that in mind, Grant Davis built a self-stacking and self-toppling domino machine…
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DROP's Gorgeous Lord of the Rings Keyboard Broke My Elvish-Loving Brain
When I first received my DROP x Lord of the Rings keyboard, it was one of those packages that you come home to after a trip: a delightful surprise, and one I had been looking forward to since I had first agreed to write a review of the new Lord of the Rings special edition. I debated between the Elvish and the Dwarvish
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Spacesuit Malfunction Forces Cancelation of ISS Spacewalk
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were unable to perform a scheduled maintenance task outside the ISS today due to a malfunctioning coolant system on a Russian-built Orlan spacesuit.

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'This is the Best Film I’ve Seen in My Life'
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Hubble Telescope Observes Surreal Galactic Collision
The James Webb Space Telescope has been getting all the attention these days, but Hubble, in space since 1990, continues to make stunning astronomical observations.

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8BitDo Turned the Classic NES Gamepad Into a Wireless Charger
The original Nintendo Entertainment System’s bundled controller is burned into the memories of millions of gamers for its unergonomic boxy corners that dug into your hands and made long gaming sessions a real test of endurance. It’s remembered fondly, but only missed for nostalgic reasons, so 8BitDO turned it into a…
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Chris Hemsworth Discusses What It Would Take For Him to Return as Thor
Chad Stahleski talks about the influences on John Wick 4. Get a new look at HBO’s The Last of Us. Plus, a look at what’s coming in Doom Patrol’s fourth season, and new pictures from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Spoilers, now!

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Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret
It may be tempting to load up on online shopping deals this Black Friday—but before you order a whole new wardrobe or electronics setup, take a moment to think about the trip all those packages may take. International shipping to bring all that stuff to your door is responsible for almost 3% of global greenhouse gas…
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The Onyx Boox Leaf 2 E-Reader is Like Having a Kindle and a Kobo All in One Device
When it comes to choosing an e-reader, for most users it comes down to which device has easy access to the books they actually want to read, and the answer is usually either the Amazon Kindle or the Rakuten Kobo. There’s now a third option, the Boox Leaf 2 from Onyx, that lets users buy books from the competition’s…
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7 Obscure Government Podcasts You Never Knew Existed
As a serial podcast listener, I can confirm what you all already know: Everyone has a podcast now. As we learned this year, that “everyone” includes the CIA, which hopes its show, The Langley Files, will make you forget some of the very bad things it’s done. (The title makes it sound a lot more interesting than it…
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At-Home Ketamine Treatments Could Be a Game-Changer—or a Big Problem
Around 2.8 million Americans suffer from treatment-resistant depression, and though research has shown that IV ketamine can significantly improve their quality of life, these ketamine treatments are expensive, and access to them is limited. Early in the covid-19 pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Agency loosened…
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What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
This article originally appeared in Protean Magazine, a leftist print magazine of critique, fiction, poetry, and art.

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Read a Story of Queer Love and Hope for the Future in the Apocalypse
Now for something a bit different to distract you this Thanksgiving. io9 has run short fiction before, from our collaborations with Lightspeed Magazine to excerpts from novels big and small. But here’s “Post-Nihilism,” an original tale of love and hope in a near-future world ravaged by climate disaster, from Gizmodo’s…
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