We tested several power banks specifically designed for iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watch, and these are our top few picks. We recommend some of these solely for their portable form factor and others for how powerful they are. But these are great under $100 solutions for replenis … | Continue reading
Back in its heyday, Game of Thrones looooooved killing off characters. Whether they were sad, hilarious, or kind of dumb, those ends have been memorable in their own ways, the mark of a good show filled with great actors. And who can forget the death of Jack Gleason’s Joffrey Bar … | Continue reading
Do you still think Sucker Punch was just shy of being a truly great work? If so, Zack Snyder agrees with you—and he’s ready to make its Snyder Cut a reality. Read more... | Continue reading
We’re halfway through April, and it’s been a busy month, media-wise. After starting with last weekend’s Monkey Man and The First Omen, this week’s graced us with Prime Video’s Fallout and A24's Civil War, both of which are big for their own individual reasons. Read more... | Continue reading
Like pretty much everyone else this weekend, I’m watching the TV adaptation of Fallout. I’m really enjoying it, and there’s a lot about it to like, from its characters and sense of place to the way it incorporates the game’s mechanics and setting into a non-interactive format. It … | Continue reading
Longtime fans of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies have been clamoring for a fourth movie since basically forever after Spider-Man 3 dropped. While that demand isn’t quite as loud now as it was back then, there’s still hope that someone will get that ball rolling, especially since To … | Continue reading
I never thought I’d see the day I’d become a “wearables” person, and it’s because I’ve spent so long on the Android side of things. For years, Android users waited in vain for manufacturers to make smartwatches that fit nicely and didn’t peter out after a mere eight hours off the … | Continue reading
Since 2014, Russell Dauterman has been an artist mainstay of Marvel comics, and one of the best working at the publisher today. From working with Jason Aaron to tell the story of Jane Foster’s Mighty Thor to giving stylish looks to the X-Men for their annual Hellfire Galas (RIP), … | Continue reading
Legos are everywhere these days, including criminal enterprises. Earlier in the week, California’s Organized Retail Crime Taskforce performed a series of raids against an illegal fencing operation spread across four buildings in LA and Orange counties. During those raids, authori … | Continue reading
Since 2014's Devil’s Due, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have been working together as the director duo Radio Silence. Between Scream 5 and 6 and Ready or Not, they’ve managed to win over plenty of horror fans as the real deal. And with Abigail a week away from hitting t … | Continue reading
A Texas hospital has shut down its organ transplant program after discovering that a doctor allegedly made “inappropriate changes” to medical records that would have made certain patients ineligible for operations. Read more... | Continue reading
Tenet ain’t the only Christopher Nolan movie getting another theatrical run. During its presentation at CinemaCon, Paramount revealed it was going to put Interstellar back in theaters as a celebration of its 10th birthday. Read more... | Continue reading
Elon Musk continues to never stop being a joke. From his deposition to where he admits that his tweets probably hurt the value of Twitter to him finally admitting that he roleplays as a toddler on his burner account. Check out this week’s big stories in tech. Read more... | Continue reading
Dune: Part Two’s success can never escape the shadow of the wormussy. Yes, even as the smash hit movie heads home, we’re all still talking about that popcorn bucket, as much as AMC probably wishes at this point we’d rather not. But it’s not all sandworms in this weeks news—Cinema … | Continue reading
Measles has made an unwelcome return to the U.S., with dozens of children across multiple states having caught the highly contagious viral disease so far this year. There are several reasons why measles has become a larger problem both here and worldwide as of late, but there’s o … | Continue reading
The Humane AI Pin has been out for a few days, and to say the release has been divisive might seem like an understatement. Most reviews that have come out this past week have been lukewarm at best. Most who have used the Pin for a few weeks have noted the device is buggy, slow, a … | Continue reading
Finding Loki’s glorious purpose finally came full circle at the end of Loki season two in ways perhaps the God of Mischief turned God of Stories couldn’t have imagined. Tom Hiddleston discussed his 14-year journey as Loki on a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance, during which Ki … | Continue reading
From Roman gladiators and personified emotions to vampires, jokers, and Wolverines, CinemaCon 2024 was absolutely stacked. Over four straight days in Las Vegas, major movie studios broke exciting news, showed exclusive footage, and more, and we were there to witness it all. Read … | Continue reading
It’s been a big week for Marvel’s mutants. X-Men ‘97 blew the doors wide open with a haunting, epic episode that has everyone talking, while at CinemaCon, Kevin Feige introduced a rip-roaring batch of Deadpool & Wolverine footage. But as rumors continue to swirl as to who might b … | Continue reading
Bob Iger and Josh D’Amaro were serious when they said they were “turbo-charging” progress at Disney Parks as Disneyland Paris sets out to reinvent its second park into Disney’s Adventure World. This new park transformation will feature its own World of Frozen and more experiences … | Continue reading
The U.S. Space Force is partnering with two companies to launch a demonstration mission of how the military branch would respond to an orbital adversary. Read more... | Continue reading
We already had an inkling that Andor’s Varada Sethu would be joining Doctor Who in the second season for Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor—and now it’s official, with the group photo to prove it. Though an earlier report said that Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday would be bowing out afte … | Continue reading
Good news and bad news, Trek fans. The good is that the excellent Strange New Worlds will continue to boldly go for at least more more season beyond its currently-filming third. The bad news: another member of Paramount’s current Trek streaming stable is preparing to say goodbye. … | Continue reading
Being based on a hugely popular video game gives Prime Video’s Fallout series a big boost: there’s already built-in fan base. But there’s also pressure that comes with adapting a beloved property, and in a new interview, its showrunners talked about how they captured the game’s d … | Continue reading
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Google began blocking access to California news outlets for some users in the state, according to an announcement from the tech giant on Friday. And it’s all because Google is upset about proposed legislation that would force the company to pay some publishers for their content, … | Continue reading
The highly anticipated first flight of Ariane 6 may finally take place this summer after years of delays. But before we can get too excited, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher is already setting the rocket up for failure without it even reaching the launchpad … | Continue reading
In October 2022, an extremely bright flash caught the attention of the Gemini South telescope in Chile. It was quickly determined to be the brightest ever seen, hence its nickname: the Brightest Of All Time (the BOAT). Read more... | Continue reading
When making an Alien movie three things are a must. First, Facehuggers. Without them, you can’t have the other two. Second, a Chestburster. This is just a smaller version of the third but still absolutely crucial. Then, third, a full-on Xenomorph. Those acid-blooded killers that … | Continue reading
If you’re a fan of indie horror, chances are you’re well familiar with the work of Larry Fessenden—both as a director (Habit, The Last Winter, Beneath) and an actor (Session 9, You’re Next, Jakob’s Wife, The Dead Don’t Die). His latest movie, werewolf tale Blackout, arrives today … | Continue reading
The results of a nine-month investigation by health regulators in the European Union should be comforting for anyone taking Ozempic and other similar drugs to treat type 2 diabetes and/or obesity. EU officials said Friday that they failed to find evidence of a causative link betw … | Continue reading
Here at io9, we’re massive fans of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ fantastic RPG-horror series Die—an incredible, grippingly subversive tale of tabletop fantasies that was, in fact, so good at homaging the tabletop experience it just straight up became a pretty great one of tho … | Continue reading
Some Intel and Lenovo products have an unfixable bug in their firmware that could allow the devices to be hacked. The bug in question has sat unpatched for years and will never be patched because the impacted products have been deemed “end-of-life” and won’t receive any additiona … | Continue reading
It’s been two weeks since I saw Alex Garland’s Civil War, and I still can’t get its chilling final minutes out of my head. Several major things happen in the waning moments of the film, adding an avalanche of emotions on top of everything you’ve already been feeling. The film is … | Continue reading
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a Moon mission game in Fortnite that lets you bounce around on the lunar surface, picking up resources and building a habitat in the same way future astronauts will establish human presence on Earth’s dusty satellite. Read more... | Continue reading
Sure, Apple may already have its M3 chip, one it dropped a little more than a year after the M2 saw the light of day. Sure, the company’s M-series silicon line has already proved a standout among computer processors, but even that wasn’t enough. According to the latest rumblings … | Continue reading
Spring may have sprung, the clocks gone forward, and it might be getting warmer again, but when you’re Hallmark, the holiday season is forever—and never too far enough to start advertising your bizarre pop culture tree ornaments. And this year, those ornaments are glaring back at … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is removing the ability for X Premium users to hide their blue checkmarks, once a Twitter status symbol turned into a shameful receipt of payment for boosted posts, according to a notification sent to users on Thursday. Read more... | Continue reading
There’s still almost a year until audiences get to see their brand new Captain America, Sam Wilson, on the big screen—but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige still decided it was time to debut the first footage from Captain America: Brave New World at CinemaCon 2024. Read more.. … | Continue reading
More Americans are moving out of big cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City, opting for less dense areas where their dollar can go farther. As the housing market skyrockets in these cities and their surrounding areas, a household income of $100,000 just doesn’t str … | Continue reading
The new 28 Years Later saga may have tapped The Marvels’ Nia DaCosta. Paramount wants to reboot Scary Movie. Plus, get another look at If, and more details about Smile 2 from Cinemacon. Spoilers, away! Read more... | Continue reading
Elon Musk has spent his entire career making predictions about the future. Some of those ideas have panned out—mostly thanks to his brilliant team of people at SpaceX. But for every promise Musk has helped make a reality through a company like SpaceX, there are many more the bill … | Continue reading
There’s exactly one Marvel Studios movie coming to theaters this year, but it’s one of the biggest to date. Deadpool & Wolverine is scheduled for release on July 26 and it won’t only be the first MCU film for Ryan Reynolds’ wisecracking killer, but also the MCU debut of Wolverine … | Continue reading
Few singular words in the long canon of the X-Men’s comic book history evoke the weight of mutantkind’s story of survival and extinction than “Genosha.” The island nation is a fundamental turning point in the comics’ long exploration of mutant statehood and the metaphor at large— … | Continue reading
Hidden deep in a California valley near Walt Disney Animation Studios is the testing ground for all the technology seen at Disney Parks and experiences around the world. It’s a top secret area, but io9 and other members of the press were recently invited in for an up-close look a … | Continue reading
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Apple has announced that it’s relaxing its policy on used parts for iPhone repairs. This makes it easier to fix your broken iPhone and save some cash along the way. Read more... | Continue reading