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The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is flying into the limelight on Gossamer-thin wings on May 12. Samsung’s hosting an “Unpacked” event—fully virtual this time—to share details on the super-thin smartphone that’s barely thicker than a USB-C charging port. The virtual event will take place on May 12 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.

Other Gadgets You still have time to buy something nice for mom before it’s too late. Kyle Barr and Raymond Wong Published May 6, 2025 Kudos to you if you’ve already bought a gift for the mom in your life and just need to wrap it ahead of Mother’s Day this Sunday, May 11. But

As the roll out for Thunderbolts has revealed that the rag-tag team of mercenaries are now your New Avengers (or Avengerz, as Red Guardian put it), more is coming to light about how the film was assembled. Co-screenwriter and story writer Eric Pearson has given post-release interviews talking about Taskmaster‘s original role in the film

How is it going to end? Well, with the first teaser for Squid Game 3, we finally have our first look. The third and final season of the runaway Netflix smash is coming on June 27 and, in the teaser, we get to see all our favorite surviving characters get ready for one last game.

A gadget’s price for its size matters now more than ever. It seems more companies—including Microsoft—are starting to identify with the need for more capable laptops at prices people can actually afford. The Windows maker just dropped details on its new 12-inch Surface Pro and thinner 13-inch Surface Laptop that seem to fit the bill

May is here, and so is the summer movie season, starting with Thunderbolts. Marvel’s newest movie isn’t just a hit with audiences and critics, it’s also taking off financially. Domestically, the film has opened to $76 million at time of writing, per the Hollywood Reporter. That’s slightly past expectations pegging it in the $70-75 million range

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The month of May is typically an important time for Marvel’s Avengers movies: the original movie came out May 4, 2012, and Age of Ultron May 1, 2015. Once upon a timeline, instead of the adjacent Thunderbolts, this weekend would’ve marked the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ first theatrical reappearance since Endgame. During its SDCC panel on July

A few weeks ago, news broke the Wheel of Time franchise was being adapted into an open-world role-playing game from Iwot Studios, a subsidiary of the production company behind the show. If that sounds too good to be true, Iwot’s reaffirmed that this is no joke, and the studio hopes to bring the fantasy series back to

The year 2024 firmly changed movie theater concession stands forever. Thanks to Dune: Part Two, and dozens of films after the fact, the themed popcorn bucket has become a staple of the multiplex. Anytime a new movie comes out, fans now think “Well, what is the popcorn bucket going to be?” The answer to that question

Three companies have joined forces to develop a new luxury alternative to traditional leather. That sounds ordinary—except the material they’re trying to create is anything but. On Friday, April 25, creative agency VML and biotech companies Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. and The Organoid Company announced a “first-of-its-kind” partnership. Their goal: to create a cruelty-free, environmentally friendly

Disney goths unite! The world of Twisted Wonderland is finally set to arrive stateside as an anime this October just in time for spooky season in this halfway to Halloween trailer announcement. The Disney+ series will adapt the Book of Heartslabyul arc fans might be familiar with as it centers Yuuken, the main character of

When you hear the word mummy, chances are you think of ancient Egypt. Many different cultures embalmed their deceased, however, and scientists have just found a particularly unexpected case. As detailed in a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, researchers analyzed a well-preserved 18th-century mummy from a small Austrian village. The individual

If you’re a big fan of listening to music or sharing the songs you love with the people you love, no doubt you already know how useful a portable speaker can be. And if not, let’s break it down for you: think about having all the songs you can think of in your pocket, not

Last year, D23 wowed collectors with one of the coolest Star Wars toys we’d seen in a very long time: a massive, 3.75″-figure-scaled replica of the original ride vehicle from Star Tours, the StarSpeeder 3000, that could seat 25 figures and even included a video screen playing back parts of the iconic Disney ride. But if

If you’re a big gamer, you know how important it is to have a monitor that both looks great and performs well. One option you should consider when setting up a new gaming PC is a curved monitor. They’re made specifically for you to set up to feel like you’re in-game, with everything happening all

Gamers and creative pros alike know how greedy their PCs are when it comes to processing speed and power. As games become more detailed and creative apps and files grow ever larger, the PC that was big and fast enough when you bought it quickly becomes outdated. The best and most economical solution isn’t always

A California-based fusion company thinks it’s cracked one of energy’s toughest problems: how to make fusion efficient, powerful, and not absurdly expensive. TAE Technologies, along with researchers from the University of California, says its reconfigured prototype—cheekily named Norm—could deliver 100 times the power of other fusion devices while running at half the cost of older

Last year, TikTok had been taken over by the Bird Buddy—a smart bird feeder with a built-in camera which could capture stunning photos and videos of your local birds. Using AI trained on real bird visits, the smart feeder is able to recognize exactly what species of bird stopped by for a visit. This product

Most folks don’t care about printers anymore, and for good reason. Fiddling with toner cartridges and managing obtuse hardware DRM policies belongs in the past. So why should we care about Anker’s $1,900 eufyMake E1 UV printer? It prints on anything and can create embossed 3D effects on practically any surface. The eufyMake M1 reminds

Body mass index might be a more accurate measurement than commonly thought. New research shows that a vast majority of people with a BMI signifying obesity have substantial excess body fat. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University conducted the study, published this month in JAMA. In a nationally representative sample of Americans, they found that adults

Apple is well-known for keeping its prices tightly fixed – especially for newly released items. Sales of recently released models are virtually non-existent on Apple’s own web site, and when they do happen, it’s typically months or years later (and often only very small ones). So, to discover Amazon offering a brand-new MacBook Air M4

It’s time to give Roborock a hand, because they’re giving us an arm. The Roborock Saros Z70 is the world’s first mass-produced robotic vacuum with a foldable mechanical arm that can intelligently identify and remove obstacles from its path, and even put them away for you. It’s the most groundbreaking advance in home cleaning technology

This year, Star Wars Nite at the Disneyland Resort expanded its run with multiple dates of the popular, separately ticketed event geared toward fans of a galaxy far, far away. And let me tell you, I am so glad they did this to meet the demand from previous years. Last spring, the limited event felt packed

Soda is a delicious addition to any meal. Sure, with all the sugar and chemicals in the kind the big box stores sell you, you’re drinking things you shouldn’t be drinking. But if you make your own “soda” with carbonated water and healthier flavorings, you can save time and money and drink healthier beverages at

A lawsuit brought by the estate of Superman co-creator Joseph Schuster which attempted to block the film’s release in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom—thanks to an old law kink that could have prevented James Gunn’s film from opening in any country that was once ruled by the British Crown—will not be moving forward.

The first three episodes of Andor season two are finally streaming on Disney+, offering a breakneck blast back into the early days of Star Wars rebellion. During io9’s interview with showrunner Tony Gilroy and star Genevieve O’Reilly, who plays Mon Mothma, the duo broke down the last moments of the third episode of this week’s

The animation industry in partnership with ASIFA-Hollywood has launched AnimAID, and a fundraising auction at Sotheby’s is set to raise money for industry folks affected by the LA wildfires. The Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Animation, DreamWorks Animation, LAIKA, and more big studios have all donated an array of rare and unique pieces

A Blade Runner game called Time to Live was once in development but never officially announced—and now that title is no more. All that’s left are a few details about what might have been. That’s according to Insider Gaming, which claims the project was in development with Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games. It was reportedly a character-focused action-adventure

The search for young Haymitch Abernathy in Lionsgate’s film adaptation of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is over. Joseph Zada (East of Eden) will be playing the young version of the character previously portrayed by Woody Harrelson. As fans will know, Haymitch was the last winner from District 12 before his mentee Katniss

If the upcoming movies based on Lego, Matchbox, and other childhood toys weren’t enough for you, next up is… a Toys ‘R’ Us movie? Yes, really. Per Variety, the toy store chain is coming to the silver screen, courtesy of Story Kitchen, the studio behind several recent game adaptations. The apparent idea here is to

Tesla reported lower than expected earnings on Tuesday, with first-quarter profits dropping 71% on much lower sales of electric vehicles. The news isn’t altogether surprising, given the fact that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the public face of the company and continues to help President Donald Trump destroy the U.S. federal government while peddling far-right

If you watched Sinners this past weekend and haven’t been able to get the visuals and the music out of your mind, you might want to check out the official soundtrack and playlist on Spotify. Not only is the whole soundtrack with performances by newcomer Miles Caton, who plays Preacher Boy, a featured option but

Beginning this Friday, Dungeons & Dragons fans can experience the realms of the tabletop RPG in a new way with Universal Studios Hollywood Fan Fest Nights. The fandom celebration will showcase new participatory entertainment at an after-dark theme park event that will give guests the opportunity to experience their own D&D adventure. Think Halloween Horror

Summer is drawing closer, and things are about to heat up. For Marvel, the warm weather is as good a time as any to provide a blast from the past: the return of its cheeky Swimsuit Special. In the early to mid-’90s, Marvel would release these one-shots from various creative teams that would show the

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When Ray Stevenson died, Ahsoka season two almost died with it. Dave Filoni, the show’s creator, was at Star Wars Celebration Japan this weekend and did a panel about his Disney+ show. Along the way, the topic of Stevenson’s passing came up and Filoni got visibly emotional. Stevenson played fallen Jedi Master Baylan Skoll, a

Sinners has mainly been advertised on the prospect of Michael B. Jordan playing twins and going up against vampires. Both of those are in the film, but its true protagonist is Sammie (Miles Caton), the SmokeStack twins’ young cousin. Much of the events center on his musical talents and how its brings the people of 1930s

For runners, swimmers, cyclists, hikers, and just about anyone who likes to get their workouts done in the great outdoors — the Galaxy Watch Ultra is what you’re looking for. It’s truly a fitness-first smartwatch with it’s rugged build and plethora of activities you can track. The durable, outdoorsy Galaxy Watch Ultra isn’t discounted at

Even before we first saw a trailer or learned about its cast, expectations for James Gunn’s Superman movie were sky-high. As the starting point for a new slate of DC projects, and the first solo movie for the superhero in over a decade, everyone knows there’s a lot of pressure here. To help celebrate Superman Day—the

Like a specter, Peter Thiel has long haunted the margins of the MAGA movement. As an early Trump backer, the tech billionaire has often been credited with helping to launch the former reality TV star’s political career. Since then, the tech billionaire’s influence can be felt in various parts of the MAGA agenda. Many of

In a conversation with Polygon, Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies discussed opting away from giving the Fifteenth Doctor a consistent outfit—or accessory, like, say, a bowtie or a distinctively striped scarf—like previous Doctors have worn. With the stylish Ncuti Gatwa now starring as the Doctor, Davies wanted to allow more room for different looks. “I

If it seems like new brands are popping up and dropping new wireless headphones every time you turn around, it’s because that’s probably not much of an exaggeration. A quick search for bluetooth headphones will yield companies you’ve never heard of offering audio equipment you’re not really sure about. JBL, however, is most definitely not a

As anticipation builds for Andor season 2‘s debut on Disney+, the official Star Wars YouTube account has unveiled a new first-look clip to keep fans satiated. And wouldn’t you know it, Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor is continuing a time-honored rebel tradition: commandeering one of the Empire’s ships from right under their noses. In the barely minute-long clip, a swarm

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Sometimes disruptions in movie theaters are spontaneous, like the current frenzy among audiences watching A Minecraft Movie. Other times, they’re planned, as with the upcoming “second screen” experience that Blumhouse crafted with Meta’s help for a special “Halfway to Halloween” screening of M3GAN. In the second example, at least, fans of the communal movie-going ritual that

The Borderlands movie came out last year and was largely met with derision, then indifference. What did the movie in? You’ll get a different answer depending on who you ask, but director Eli Roth thinks part of the issue was when it was made. In case you forgot, Borderlands began filming in 2021 during the early days of the covid-19

The Trump administration’s cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, have gutted vital health programs in recent months. And the public is slowly learning about the ramifications of these moves that will make Americans sicker and less

Released in 1997, Final Fantasy VII was a landmark game of its era, making waves across its own series, genre, and the entire medium. Over the years, fans turned that love into hopes for a remake or some kind of revisitation. Those hopes seemed to bear fruit in 2015, when Square Enix revealed at E3 that

After Stone Ocean ended back in 2022, the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime is returning with an adaptation of Steel Ball Run. Studio David Production announced the upcoming series at the JOJODay stage event. The short teaser reveals we’re going to 1890, two years after the first series, Phantom Blood & Battle Tendency. This period’s Joestar is Johnny, a paraplegic ex-jockey in

Donald Trump’s tariff regime keeps getting less and less robust. In the latest backtrack from the Trump administration following the repeated warning of the markets to chill out a bit, the US Customs and Border Protection published guidance late Friday night that introduced new exemptions for smartphones, computers, and other electronics—a major carveout for tech

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? (Part 2)” by Sarah Langan. You can read Part 1 here. Enjoy! Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? (Part 2) by Sarah Langan

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since Bluey concluded its most recent season. It wasn’t meant to be a series finale but definitely felt like one. Creator Joe Brumm announced that while he’s leaving the show, Bluey will go on—but it still feels a bit like it’s been left hanging in the air.

For nearly a decade, a large probe has braved the harsh Jovian environment to bring us mesmerizing, close-up views of Jupiter and its moons. But sometimes, the gas giant gets the best of it. The Juno mission recently went into an unexpected safe mode during a scheduled flyby of Jupiter, temporarily powering down its science

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The Gundam franchise’s history with queerness is longer in the meta text than it has been in the text of the franchise itself. Shippers have been matching up same-gender characters with each other for generations before Witch From Mercury‘s first episode climaxed with its female deuteragonists getting engaged, kicking off a relationship that even Gundam‘s owners

During the press tour for his upcoming vampire thriller Sinners, director Ryan Coogler spoke about his Marvel blockbuster Black Panther, describing the level of commitment the late Chadwick Boseman brought to his performance. Boseman’s work was so powerful, it continued to influence his Black Panther co-star, Michael B. Jordan, and Coogler on their latest collaboration. While

The long Winter has finally reached its end. The weather has warmed up and now it’s finally time for that long-awaited Spring cleaning. Cleaning doesn’t have to feel like a chore. It can be easy with the right tool. The Dyson V11 cordless vacuum is that tool. Right now, this stick vacuum cleaner is part

Russia launched three secretive satellites into orbit earlier this year, and they appear to have recently released a mysterious object. The satellites’ unusual maneuvers have reignited concerns that Russia may be testing military capabilities in space—or even preparing for space warfare. The trio of satellites—designated Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583—launched on February 2 aboard a

If Instagram has got you down as much as it has me down (I can’t even find friends’ photos anymore amid the deluge of AI-narrated spam posts and “suggested for you” nonsense), Fujifilm may have the antidote you needed. The company’s new Instax Mini 41 is a tightly-packed point-and-shoot instant camera for capturing the moment

Some say spring is the best time of the year. Flowers are blooming, and trees are getting more colorful. We, however, tend to travel as soon as we feel the warmth of our beloved Sun. That’s where a VPN comes in! Traveling abroad without proper data protection is borderline dangerous! Public WiFi networks are havens

In 2013, dozens of dolphins living in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon mysteriously began to die. Their remains washed up, showing the animals had been emaciated. Now, over a decade later, ecologists believe they’ve figured out the cause of the bizarre die-off. While the deaths have long been linked to gigantic algae blooms in the water

Thanks to the first Wicked movie and its upcoming sequel, there’s some Wizard of Oz fever going around. The original 1939 film celebrated its 85th birthday last year ahead of Wicked, and now it’s getting the spotlight once more thanks to the Las Vegas Sphere. Beginning in August, the venue will provide a “fully immersive experience” for Wizard of

The acting head of FEMA was recently given a lie detector test to determine if he leaked information to the press about the Trump regime’s plans to destroy the federal disaster agency, according to a new report from Politico. And while that may seem like a really bizarre thing to do to a senior official

Change is coming to Marvel Rivals beyond adding Emma Frost and Ultron to the roster. NetEase Games is making a significant shakeup to the game’s post-launch rollout by changing its seasonal schedule, and by extension the rate new heroes join the game. After the upcoming Season 2, future seasons will be two months long, and each month

Now that the weather’s warming up, its time to start planning some backyard parties. A surefire hit for any outdoor gathering is always a Bluetooth speaker. Take a look at the Sony SRS-XG300 X-Series. This is portable party speaker with booming sound. Right now, you can get it for 60% off, bringing it down to

A crew of four first-time astronauts are on their way home after spending nearly four days in a unique polar orbit. SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set to return to Earth on Friday, and the astronauts will make their way out of the spacecraft on their own. The Fram2 crew is scheduled for splashdown on Friday

Attention all Android-heads. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 as well as the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 are on sale. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 is currently $300 off, but after trading in your old phone, you can save up to $1,000. That means you can get it for a little as $600. Likewise

Freddy Fazbear and friends are counting down to the next big show in the first teaser for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which just premiered at CinemaCon before being released online by Blumhouse. Jason Blum showed up in a full Toy Freddy costume at the annual theatrical slate convention to drop the 46-second teaser trailer.

The past two years, Universal chose CinemaCon to debut the first footage from its adaptation of Wicked and now, with the second and final film on the way, it had to happen again. Director Jon M. Chu, producer Marc Platt, and stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were all on hand to debut the first

Season of the Force has begun at the Disneyland Resort and Star Wars fans are in for some fantastical foodie fun. io9 recently attended the media experiences on opening day. We also ran around the park for our own little food crawl that took us from Docking Bay 7 and Ronto Roasters in Galaxy’s Edge

This week at CinemaCon movie studios are putting on a show for movie theater representatives and invited media. And at tonight’s Warner Bros. presentation, James Gunn and DC Studios closed things out with a look at this summer’s Superman. James Gunn referred to this summer as “the summer of Superman” but after the extended footage he

Val Kilmer, beloved actor who starred in 80s and 90s blockbusters like Batman Forever and Top Gun, has died at 65 years old. His daughter Mercedes told the New York Times he’d passed from pnuemonia. Born New Years Eve 1959, Kilmer had been battling throat cancer for nearly a decade. Over the years, it affected him

There was plenty of onscreen drama in House of the Dragon season two: painful betrayals, fiery deaths, powerful awakenings, wanderings in the spirit world, Aemond being Aemond… you name it. But a behind-the-scenes tiff may have overshadowed them all, when source material author George R.R. Martin spoke out about his dissatisfaction with plot changes made

Ever since he called time on the galaxy far, far away, John Boyega has been frank in discussing the ways he was both frustrated by, and pushed back against, the racism he experienced in being cast as one of Star Wars‘ latest generation of heroes, and the struggles he faced in Finn’s journey across the

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Behold, the piping host particles of solar wind streaming from our Sun, caught in new footage from the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter. The video was captured by the orbiter’s Metis instrument, a coronagraph which blocks light directly from the Sun in order to see fainter phenomena in its outer atmosphere, or corona. New research describing the

Netflix doesn’t have an official date for the last season of Stranger Things, but it’s got something to tide over fans in the upcoming play, First Shadow. The prequel just began its preview run this weekend ahead of its full launch in April, and that means it’s time to start hyping it up. Netflix has provided two

Kara Zor-El has lived many lives across her long, occasionally strange comic book history, but arguably no book has been more important to her modern imagining than Woman of Tomorrow. When the smash-hit miniseries released in 2021 to critical acclaim, it quickly became the jumping-on-point recommendation for people who wanted to get the Supergirl experience, even

Starting today at Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland, Star Wars fans will be able to meet Master Luke Skywalker in Batuu. His arrival is the latest evolution in the theme park’s canon, which had once limited itself to the time period between Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The change

It’s a good time to be a fan of the Avatar franchise, between Nickelodeon’s all-new upcoming animated series Avatar: Seven Havens and Netflix’s (unrelated but adjacent) live-action series returning for a second and third season. The third part of the current Avatar media triangle is Nick’s upcoming trilogy of animated feature films, with the exciting

If there’s anything we’ve been learning these last couple of months, all good things must end. Fortunately, Garmin isn’t putting an end to its free tier, but it is introducing a premium plan called Garmin Connect+. The perks will sound familiar if you subscribe to apps like Strava. And because its 2025, the paid features

In the past, OpenAI has explicitly refrained from allowing users to create prompts and generate images mimicking Studio Ghibli’s art style to avoid potential copyright lawsuits from the anime giant. That is, until the company released a new ChatGPT update earlier this week touting its technological ability to create more “precise, accurate, photorealistic outputs.” The

It’s been three years since the release of S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR, the Telugu-language epic historical fantasy starring Jr. NTR and Ram Charan that swept the globe. Based on an idea from Rajamouli’s father, the film was a bonkers re-imagining of Indian revolutionaries Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju taking on English colonizers led by Governor

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A24 and filmmaker Alex Scharfman are ready to shine a new light on unicorn lore with the arthouse distributor’s latest genre release. In Death of a Unicorn, Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and Paul Rudd (Avengers: Endgame) play a daughter and father who accidentally run over a baby unicorn on the way to an important meeting—one that

That little getaway in the woods sure would have been much less eventful if Ash Williams and his pals hadn’t decided to read passages out of that creepy old book someone left behind. But we’re so glad they did—thereby awakening the forces of darkness, sparking the events of The Evil Dead and its sequels, launching

The earliest memory I have of Snow White’s Scary Adventures at Disneyland is being in the shadowy, utterly terrifying woods with monster trees crunching all around the ride vehicle as the old witch jump-scares you for what felt like the hundredth time. I can’t tell you how old I was when I first rode the

In an interview with GQ, Amanda Seyfried broke down her most iconic characters—including her leading role in the Diablo Cody-written Jennifer’s Body opposite Megan Fox. The film, directed by Karyn Kusama, wasn’t an instant hit but over the years since its 2009 release has built up a solid cult fandom that’s propelling talk of a

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Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs. The scientists investigated a region of seafloor recently exposed by the calving of a gigantic iceberg—A-84—which is as large as Chicago. The team found a surprisingly

Less than a month after its launch, Hazelight Studios’ newest video game Split Fiction may be the next video game adapted for film. Per Variety, “multiple top studios” are currently in a bidding war for the game’s rights. Story Kitchen, which has helped with recent adaptations of Tomb Raider and the Sonic movies, is assembling a cast, writer, and

Horror remakes and reboots are just part of the Hollywood genre landscape these days; sometimes, a fresh eye applied to familiar source material can yield a triumphant win, one recent example being Evil Dead Rise. More often, though, the cash-grab intentions shine through everything else. One of the most frequently burned franchises is also one

Looking for free channels to live stream the F1 Chinese Grand Prix? You’re not the only one. Fans are going crazy as the Shanghai GP is approaching fast on the 21st of March. After Lando Norris edged out Max Verstappen at the Australian GP, everyone’s eager to see if he can repeat the result. Luckily

More key details of the sprawling expansions coming to Disney Parks were unveiled by CEO Bob Iger himself this week, including a look at the Lion King ride for Disneyland Paris. Disney is also busy over at Imagineering, as Star Wars droid action expands to the real world and the world of cinema in The

The Washington Post recently published a long feature story that, put politely, asks why exactly Elon Musk decided to make his primary enemy diversity, equity, and inclusion programs—and put less politely, asks when exactly did he get so racist? In it, Musk’s father, Errol Musk, offers up an anecdote that he probably believes is exculpatory

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has all but torpedoed the electric car maker’s brand since taking on a special role within the Trump administration, determined to cut massive amounts of spending through job cuts and downsizing popular programs or eliminating entire agencies. That has understandably caused a lot of anger across the country, and Tesla has

The Vancouver International Auto Show has banned Tesla from this year’s event over safety concerns in the wake of several attacks against dealerships across the U.S., according to several reports from Canadian news outlets. Tesla dealerships and charging stations have been shot with guns and cars have been set on fire, seemingly a response to

Hasbro’s Sigil 3D virtual tabletop tool—which recently launched in a messy, unfinished state as an early public playtest—is reportedly being shuttered after years of development and being folded into, in some capacity, existing D&D Beyond virtual tabletop system, Maps. Rascal News reports that, in an internal message sent to Wizards of the Coast employees, the studio

The Starliner saga is finally coming to an end with the return of NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on Tuesday after a prolonged nine month stay in space. The story is largely over, but that didn’t prevent President Donald Trump from taking one final stab at the former administration—a stab packed with disinformation

As Severance heads into its season finale, its devoted fans—including us obsessives here at io9—have come up with a million theories about the show’s many mysteries. But amid all the Cold Harbor speculation, the Mark/Mark S./Helly/Gemma drama, and the mystifying true purpose of those damn goats, a few things seem already settled thanks to “The

One of the biggest obstacles, figuratively, facing self-driving cars is the ability to expect the unexpected, quickly identify potential issues, and respond in a well-reasoned manner to produce a safe outcome. One of the biggest obstacles, literally, facing self-driving cars are giant Wile E. Coyote-style walls painted to look like the road ahead in an

The seventh generation of consoles headlined by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 may not be so dead after all. Despite Microsoft’s determination to end its elder console’s long lifespan by killing off the Xbox 360 game store last year, prospective modders now have a new way to access a horde of homebrew content without having to crack

David Cronenberg is best known for his films that explore how the human body can be transformed, typically in pretty gruesome fashion. His newest feature, The Shrouds, continues that with a somber examination of death, grief, and their intersection with modern-day technology—and by letting the filmmaker get a little more personal. Set in a “deceptively placid

While VPNs are often used for privacy protection, they’re actually far more than that. With some of them, like NordVPN, you can also protect your devices against malware and keep the investment relatively low. Why is this important? Well, there are plenty of reasons. Malware infection could also infringe on your privacy or even make your

It was only a few days ago the first real trailer for the Lilo & Stitch remake came out, and it looks… like these remakes do? This is apparently the one Disney’s putting its weight behind this year, which means it’s time to brag about some metrics! According to Disney, the Lilo & Stitch trailer has garnered

Formula 1 is finally back. Make sure you’re set up to watch the 2025 Australian Grand Prix in the best way possible. The Formula 1 2025 season starts on March 14th. This day marks the beginning of the Australian Grand Prix, which lasts until March 16th. The good news is that you can watch the

First things first: do we really need a new take on Starship Troopers? Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s classic 1959 novel has become a classic in its own right, satirizing ideas about fascism and the military-industrial complex with a uniquely potent cheekiness. It also gave us Neil Patrick Harris as a psychic who

March 2025 has turned into the unofficial Talk About Star Wars Underworld Month. Days after Star Wars producer Rick McCallum discussed the mythical, unproduced show, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and For All Mankind writer/producer Ronald D. Moore spoke about what it was like to be one of the show’s writers. Appearing on The Sackhoff Show

You can save on a variety of Roku Smart TVs right now, just in time to start your binge of all the Oscar winners and everything that got snubbed. In fact, for a limited time the 40″ Roku Smart TV is listed for a lower price than the 32″ display. The 32″ is $158, but

NASA is not one to let a good spacecraft go to waste. For nearly two weeks, the space agency has been trying to reestablish communications with a recently launched satellite that was originally headed toward the Moon. Lunar Trailblazer launched on February 26 on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the aim of entering

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously found at the same site, according to the

It started with the teaser trailer, which evoked the original animated Lilo & Stitch marketing campaign—showing the film’s cuddly, chaotic alien hopping from Disney classic to Disney classic—and was released in theaters ahead of Mufasa. Now we’ve got a better look at the live-action Lilo & Stitch which adorably recreates some of the animated film’s iconic

The adage goes, “your arbitrage is my opportunity,” and could be used to sum up Meta’s push into building an in-house chip for AI training tasks. Reuters reports the company recently began a small deployment of the chips after successfully building them in a test with Taiwan’s TSMC (sorry Intel). Meta is already using its

NASA has begun implementing its reduction in force (RIF) approach, closing three offices and laying off staff in compliance with executive orders by the new administration that target the federal workforce. NASA announced on Monday that it will be closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the

Tony Gilroy is a man with a vision. That vision guided him from the extensive reshoots of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story all the way to a Disney+ series about one of that film’s heroes, Cassian Andor—and finding in it a critical acclaim unlike anything the galaxy far, far away had seen in a generation.

A previously overlooked factor may have contributed to the debilitating strength of Hurricane Idalia, which cost the United States billions of dollars when it struck in August 2023. According to a team of researchers that studied the climatic conditions around the storm, the typical cocktail of weather conditions that feed a hurricane doesn’t add up

Politicians are pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to answer questions about a government contract for armored Teslas that never existed. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-NY) and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) both sent letters to Rubio last week with a detailed list of questions they want the Secretary to answer. The letters concern a Biden-era State

Skip to content Send us a Tip! Subscribe The Future Is Here Search Home Latest Tech Reviews Science io9 AI Video Deals CES 2025 Awards Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government It’s a pretty far cry from Zuck’s claims of “free expression.” By AJ Dellinger U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching

For the first time since the Galaxy Z Fold 4 launch in 2022, I have not been using a Samsung foldable to do my bidding. Instead, I’ve felt perfectly content doing it all on the Oppo Find N5 since it arrived a few weeks ago. The book-style foldable has an 8.12-inch inner screen and a

With Moana 2 coming to 4k and Blu-ray March 18, and hitting Disney + March 12, the filmmakers behind the epic sequel sat down to confirm our favorite voyager’s new title. io9 spent a day at Walt Disney Animation Studios to get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moana 2, taking part in a

For all the buzz surrounding Ozempic and similar GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, there are also plenty of concerns about potential serious or long-term side effects. Among the scariest of these fears is that GLP-1 drugs may cause certain types of thyroid cancer. The risk is relevant enough that the Food and Drug Administration has

Whenever we discuss streaming services, we can’t find a person who doesn’t have at least one subscription. However, as much as these services are awesome, they have one annoying aspect – they’re usually region-locked. As a result, traveling abroad often means missing out on shows and movies. This turns off many people who’d like to

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library” by Cadwell Turnbull. Enjoy! Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library By Cadwell Turnbull Dekar Druid lives in an infinite library. Besides Ebizenum, who is in

You might be forgiven, given Mon Mothma’s increased importance to modern Star Wars, for thinking that her homeworld of Chandrila was one of the galaxy far, far away’s most explored locales, up there with the likes of Coruscant, Hoth, Tatooine, Alderaan, and more for their pivotal roles across the Skywalker Saga. But even now, after years

Finally there are more looks at Disney’s live-action Snow White—courtesy of the stunning music video for “Waiting on a Wish” and its unplugged version, both sung by Rachel Zegler. And it’s a feast for Disney Princess fans as we get glimpses at elements of the story we know from Walt Disney Animation’s first animated feature

The vocals cannot be denied: Rachel Zegler is a real Disney Princess. Just listen to the first single from Snow White. The star’s musical performances as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes were just warm-ups. Disney’s live-action adaptation of its animated classic, directed

President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists that new tech can finally make it happen. Trump gave a rambling speech to Congress Tuesday night that included the kinds of dishonest nonsense the fascist president has long been known for. However

If the thought of having a spoonful of plastic in your noggin sounds bad to you, you’re not the only one. Scientists are sounding the alarm over a recent study showing that microplastics can accumulate in the brain. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada wrote the commentary, published Tuesday in the journal Brain Medicine. In

The European Commission recently established a planned gamma-ray observatory as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, or ERIC, which will expedite the construction of the telescope and set up a framework for the distribution of its data. In other words, we’ll soon have a record-breaking observatory for studying gamma ray sources—some of the most energetic and

What’s scarier than meeting your partner’s parents? If the trailer for The Parenting is anything to go by, it’s that while in a possibly haunted house. Max released the first trailer for its upcoming horror-comedy directed by Craig Johnson, which sees millennial couple Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn) host a weekend getaway with their respective

Solar panels are finding new ways to fit into unfamiliar places . With that in mind, it’s taken far too long for anybody to try sticking one directly into a laptop. For MWC 2025, Lenovo showed off a Yoga Solar PC concept. Too many laptops claim full 24 hours of battery life even though you’ll

It is the season for affordable smartphones to duke it out among one another. We had Apple, we’re expecting Google, and Samsung just threw its roster into the ring. The Galaxy A-series is set to be refreshed next month. It starts with the Galaxy A36 starting at $400, then the Galaxy A26 at $300. The

Skip to content Send us a Tip! Subscribe The Future Is Here Search Home Latest Tech Reviews Science io9 AI Video Deals CES 2025 Awards Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them The Google co-founder says 60-hours a week is the productivity sweet spot

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The latest entry in the Gundam franchise, GQuuuuuuX, is built around one of the most fascinating premises a mainline Gundam show has had in years. To get there, we’re asked to cast our minds back over 45 years to the original 1979 anime—and in doing so, we’re also asked to consider a pretty hilarious idea. The vast

Making moments last from family trips has transformed from the glossy sheen of a photo album filled with memories to a culture of “if it wasn’t shared on social media, then it didn’t happen.” The meaningful joy of putting together visuals of our lives as keepsakes has turned into creating digital displays that can often

Kathleen Kennedy isn’t retiring… from filmmaking. She is, however, looking for potential successors to take over for her at Lucasfilm. That news, and much more, just broke out of an exclusive new interview with the Lucasfilm president. Earlier this week, news leaked that Kennedy might be retiring from Lucasfilm by the end of 2025. Speaking

Marvel Studios has had a bit of an up-and-down success story when it comes to TV since WandaVision kicked off a renewed focus on streaming series back in 2021. Well, it might be more diplomatic to frame them loosely as TV for the most part—the studio’s whole approach to miniseries that were more like sliced up movies left

I’m going to be, as we millennials say, “for real” with you all about the iPhone 16e. After a couple of days with it, I prefer it over wielding the iPhone 16 Pro, at least for testing purposes. I’m not saying there isn’t a point in dropping a stack of cash on a Pro version

It’s good to see them, isn’t it? Elphaba and Glinda will be joining the line-up at Universal Fan Fest Nights. The after-hours fandom celebration will debut the highly anticipated Wicked meet-and-greet at Universal Studios Hollywood for theme park and movie fans during the separately ticketed event. This follows up the characters’ recent short stints at

Roberto Orci, one of the most prolific and successful Hollywood writers and producers in recent memory, died Tuesday from kidney failure. He was 51 years old. Orci is best known for his work with fellow writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together, the pair wrote and produced a slew of massive hits such as Mission: Impossible III

The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) just launched an AI-powered forecasting model, which the center says outperforms state-of-the-art physics-based models by up to 20%. The model is dubbed the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS). According to an ECMWF release, the new model operates at faster speeds than physics-based models and takes approximately 1,000

The first trailer for Andor season two dropped today, giving us a long-awaited look at Cassian’s return—and a rebellion coalescing into full, explosive effect. It’s full of tiny little glimpses of what we know are going to to be four distinct chapters setting the year-by-year stage for the Cassian we met in Rogue One, familiar faces from

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Just four West African countries are the foundation of an industry worth more than $100 billion. In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of seeds. Once harvested, these humble

Two months after it hit theaters, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim is making its way to Max on Friday, February 28. Per Deadline, the anime film will come to Warner Bros.’ streaming service ahead of its broadcast debut on Saturday, March 1. When it came out, Rohirrim pretty much got buried by other, bigger movies, it

After years of their movies going up against each other, Marvel and DC Comics are coming together again on the page with a new crossover. At this week’s ComicsPro retailer expo, Marvel and DC’s respective editors-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Marie Javins jointly announced the upcoming event, which they teased would be hitting sometime this year.

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“It’s almost 10 years ago that we started this journey,” Charlie Cox points out in one of two short videos Marvel just shared ahead of Daredevil: Born Again‘s arrival on Disney+. That sounds completely incorrect until you fact-check its star and realize that yes, Daredevil premiered on Netflix in April 2015. The confusing passage of

In a big turn of events Universal Studios is opening up a kid-centric theme park in Texas that will have major animated franchise appeal, with Shrek, Jurassic World, and SpongeBob just a few of brands in store for the new family-friendly destination. This news coming out right after Universal shared more details about its year-round

Well, that didn’t take long. It hasn’t even been a year since Inside Out 2 took over Frozen 2‘s spot atop the list of highest-grossing animated movies of all time—en route to becoming 2024’s highest-grossing movie worldwide, full stop, though Deadpool & Wolverine did make a run for it. The top movie of 2025 is

There’s a very specific niche of Greek mythology geeks who think about the gods and goddesses at least once a day. Yes, it’s our Roman Empire, and with the news that Christopher Nolan (Interstellar) is going to meticulously assemble the grand myth of The Odyssey for the big screen with quite the epic cast, we’re

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With less than 0.04 inches of rainfall each year, cities in Chile’s barren Atacama Desert—one of the driest places in the world—collect their water from ancient underground water sources. Now, researchers have identified another simple method that could help address water scarcity. An international team of researchers in Chile has tested the viability of a

You can’t watch the trailer for Pedro Pascal’s new movie Freaky Tales and not think of the 1990s. Mainly that’s because the film is set right on the cusp of the decade, 1987, but also the idea of a violent, weird, sprawling single California city almost-anthology brings to mind one of the best films of

During a recent Alien: Romulus screening with Collider, director Fede Alvarez talked about the potential of diving back into the franchise—specifically if he’d be up for taking on an Alien vs. Predator crossover picture. As it turns out, he has actually given such a project some thought, but is realistic enough to know that his

Grief was a key theme in Severance season one, but it was mostly confined to the outtie storyline. In season two, we’ve seen loss become a prominent presence in both segments of the show, provoking even the innies—who are not well-equipped to deal with complex emotions—to consider what death means to them. In season one

Off in the depths of the QAnon and PizzaGate corners of the internet, conspiracists swear Donald Trump is quietly preparing charges to bring down notorious sex trafficking circles operated by celebrities. Back in reality, the Financial Times reports the Trump administration is pressuring Romanian authorities to let Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate travel

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NASA just wrapped engine performance tests on its X-59 research aircraft, which the space agency hopes will prove a means of mitigating supersonic aircraft’s odious sonic booms. NASA and Lockheed Martin ran the tests between October and February on the single modified F414-GE-100 engine that will power the aircraft and its subsystems. “We have successfully

If the winter season wasn’t chilling enough, Peacock is adding Nosferatu next Friday, February 21. Robert Eggers’ critically acclaimed remake will come to the streamer with two cuts: the original theatrical version in all its erotic, gothy glory; and an extended cut (with a handful of deleted and extended scenes) available on other platforms and DVD/Blu-Ray.

As Marvel Rivals has launched its first batch of post-launch heroes with the Fantastic Four, the community remains eager to know who’s waiting in the wings. Dataminers have seemingly revealed much of the future additions not long after the game’s launch, and the obsession over that list has grown to the point developers at NetEase

Our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is moving towards us at a slow and steady pace. In about 3,000 years, the triple star system will be at its closest point to Earth, but new research proposes that material from Alpha Centauri has already made its way to our solar system. And more is on the

Daredevil is back to beat up bad guys to a pulp through super long hallways, this time on Disney+. It was originally revealed that Charlie Cox would be returning as Matt Murdock (who briefly had a fling on She-Hulk) along with Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin (who appeared in Echo), alongside Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the

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Beware the hospital sink drain. A new study out this week shows that these drains can be a common source of scary, drug-resistant pathogens, even after deep cleaning. Researchers at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain led the study, published Friday in Frontiers in Microbiology. They analyzed bacteria collected from drains around a

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Pop culture goods have come a long way from basic black tees with movie titles screen-printed on them—you know the ones, you’d find them tucked away in a corner of a video store by the posters and collectibles. As millennial culture expanded the demand into mall mainstays like Hot Topic, which went on to grow

Meteorology has never been as precise as it is today—but how can scientists learn about past weather events? In addition to environmental evidence such as ice cores and sediments, historical records provide unique insights into forgotten climate events and how they shaped society, as new research attests. Researchers in Romania have analyzed historical records to

Anthony Mackie makes his standalone solo film debut with Sam Wilson taking up the mantle in Captain America: Brave New World and the consensus on this outing is in. Was Harrison Ford’s Red Hulk versus Cap everything it’s been built up to be? Are we ready for what the Serpent Society has in store? Here’s

The U.S. Military is pulling out of a 40-year-old STEM event in Baltimore as part of its campaign to abandon “DEI” programs and push back against a perceived “wokeness” among American troops. The Becoming Everything You Are Conference (BEYA), once called the Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference, has been running in Baltimore for

Robert Eggers teases the darkness of his new period werewolf movie. Apple TV+’s The Studio takes on the entertainment industry with a twist. Plus, what’s coming on Ghosts. Spoilers, away! The Death of Robin Hood Deadline reports Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe will star alongside Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer in The Death of Robin Hood

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Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining lies a troubling scenario. Musk has been appointed what is called a “special government employee” in

On October 5, 2024, Iran was struck by an earthquake. Just minutes later, rumors began to spread on social media that it hadn’t been a natural event, but a secret Iranian nuclear weapons test. Now, researchers led by Johns Hopkins University have debunked these claims in a study published on February 3 in the journal

Having yet to discover any evidence of extraterrestrial life, it’s difficult to theorize about the kinds of beings that might exist beyond the reaches of our telescopes. Could there be an Earth-like planet with human-like beings and technology searching for us as ardently as we’re searching for them? Although a planet with life and technology

Your next juice cleanse might be riskier than you think. Recent research has found that as little as three days of juicing can lead to noticeable and possibly harmful changes in our native gut and mouth bacteria. Scientists at Northwestern University conducted the study, which compared the short-term effects of three different diets on the

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An archaeological excavation in Wales has unearthed magnificent Iron Age artifacts. But it wasn’t archaeologists who found them. Military personnel and veterans have uncovered 2,000-year-old Celtic artifacts beneath the airfield at Royal Air Force (RAF) Valley station in Wales. The findings, officially declared as treasure, may have been part of a famous archaeological hoard previously

Astronomers have spotted a massive radio jet in the early universe, which they say is the largest known from that era. The jet is at least 200,000 light-years long, making it twice the width of the Milky Way. It formed when the universe was less than 10% its current age of roughly 13.77 billion years.

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Many beloved film series from the 1980s and ’90s have found new life in the form of legacy sequels, reboots, revivals, and “the characters are old now, let’s roll with it” continuations. But don’t expect the same from Back to the Future, at least according to screenwriter Bob Gale. At this past weekend’s Saturn Awards

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which

The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way. Despite the galaxy’s size, capturing this image proved no small feat. The Bullseye (affectionately) lies 567 million light-years from Earth, making it a rather distant object to

Adobe, which loves to shove long-term subscriptions onto its customers, has a new add-on for Acrobat that it says will make it easier to read and understand legal contracts. Acrobat AI Assistant, as it is called, is supposed to look at a PDF contract and extract the most important details, as well as simplify them

Roughly 200-300 ducks have been found dead in Chicago and the northern suburbs around Lake Michigan in recent days, according to a new report from local news outlet NBC5. The red-breasted mergansers have died of suspected bird flu, according to local experts who spoke with NBC5, though it doesn’t appear tests have confirmed that suspicion

One of the most anticipated pop culture returns of 2025 is almost here: The Last of Us, HBO’s hit video game adaptation starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal. Talking about season two has been a particularly delicate matter for those involved in the series, in the interest of not spoiling the plot for viewers who

Earlier this week, Netflix pulled back the curtain on its 2025 slate, which includes the previously announced Devil May Cry adaptation. Along with a premiere date of April 3, we got a look at the show’s opening credits, and they’re a riot. What makes them so good? The song, naturally. Of all the tunes to open a

Whenever a Critical Role campaign ends, it’s always a big deal. The finales are events unto themselves, and fans tend to leave them excited for the future—which is good, because the Actual Play series is already teasing its next moves. On Thursday, February 6, the “Bells Hells” campaign will close with an eight and a half hour

The website for USAID, the U.S. government agency that distributes foreign aid, went down on Saturday, and it’s unclear when it may return. The outage comes as every federal website has been ordered to erase forbidden words, though USAID’s outage could related to reports that Donald Trump plans to put most of the agency under

Some of us here at io9 play video games, and we’re more than intrigued by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. While Sandfall Interactive’s Atlus–inspired RPG isn’t out until April, it’s already being eyed for a live-action movie. Per Variety, Sandfall is teaming with production company Story Kitchen to bring its debut game to the silver screen. The

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Last week, Benedict Cumberbatch made the bold declaration that Doctor Strange won’t appear in Avengers: Doomsday—only to walk that back and admit that yes, we will be seeing the Sorcerer Supreme in that film, rather than having to wait for  Avengers: Secret Wars. His Avengers cohort Chris Evans, the former Captain America, has picked up

Universal Studios Hollywood’s Star Trek food leads the pack of uniquely bizarre (but on brand) drinks and munchies inspired by different fandom universes for Fan Fest Nights 2025. The after-hours FFN (like Halloween Horror Nights) will invite fans to experience their favorite franchises on every level: experiences, sights, in-universe merch, and tasty treats. This year’s

Ever felt the sudden urge to leap into a TARDIS and flee your current timeline or location (or both)? You can live out your Time Lord fantasies if your pockets are deep enough when a screen-matched TARDIS goes up for auction, part of a trove of Doctor Who items being sold to aid BBC-backed charity

This year’s Oscar nominations went all in on genre, and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo is up for a leading actress statue. Cinema’s Wicked Witch of the West was on Jimmy Kimmel recently and the late night host revealed Erivo was on a plane when the announcement was made. “True to form. I was defying gravity,”

Whatever Patti LuPone wants, she doesn’t always get, or at least that’s the case when it came to a second season of Agatha All Along. At this point if you haven’t seen the Marvel show, which followed up the events of WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it’s on you—but not only

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