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December 27th 2022

Strange World‘s In-Universe Card Game Is Fully Playable

Combining Catan and Magic: The Gathering , the writers created a complete card game for the Disney movie's Clade family.

Movies Linda Codega

Photo: John Moore / Staff

Military Device Containing Thousands of Peoples’ Biometric Data Reportedly Sold on eBay

German Researchers bought the SEEK II device as part of a security study, and found an alarming amount of information on the memory card.

Tech News Lauren Leffer

Knock at the Cabin‘s New Trailer Raises the Apocalyptic Stakes

M. Night Shyamalan's new horror film just got a whole lot weirder.

Trailers Rob Bricken

Image: Justin Sullivan

New Law Bans Elon Musk’s Tesla From Advertising as ‘Full Self-Driving’

The California law, SB No. 1398, forbids car dealers and manufacturers from using language that could lead the public to believe a car is fully autonomous.

Transportation Kevin Hurler

Photo: David McNew

Big Oil Launches Counterattack to California Law Against Neighborhood Drilling

A new fossil fuel-sponsored ballot initiative could reverse a major environmental justice victory.

Climate Change Blanca Begert, Grist

Photo: David Dee Delgado

Emails Reportedly Show Ex-Regulators Helped SBF Get Ins With the CFTC

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried dined with an ex-CFTC official who’s now with the SEC, two agencies that have since cited SBF for fraud.

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Barr

Updates From Deadpool 3, Avatar 3, and More

Plus James Gunn keeps hitting back at rumors about the future of the DC movie universe.

io9 Gordon Jackson & James Whitbrook

Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

The Weirdest Medical Cases of 2022

A man allergic to orgasms, a vitamin D overdose, and, of course, an unusual rectal insertion are some of the strangest medical tales reported this year.

Health Ed Cara

8 Famous Photos and the Cameras They Were Captured On

Here are the different cameras that snapped images of nuclear detonations, walking on the Moon, and aircraft explosions.

Tech News Kevin Hurler

Photo: Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times

Southwest Cancels Thousands of Flights, Pushing Holiday Travel Plans Into Chaos

Southwest has already cancelled over 8,000 flights since Thursday.

Transportation Matt Novak

December 26th 2022

His Dark Materials‘ Series Finale Was All About Eve

The war against the Authority was only half the battle for the fate of the multiverse.

Television Rob Bricken

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/The Met Museum/Vogue

Account That Tracks Elon Musk’s Jet Is Back on Twitter With 24-Hour Delay, For Now

University student Jack Sweeney has launched the @ElonJetNextDay account on Twitter. The account has amassed more than 17,100 followers in four days.

Tech News Jody Serrano

Dungeon23 Is the Perfect Low-Pressure Writing Ritual

In 2023, commit to being nerdier than ever with the one-room-a-day Dungeon23 challenge.

Games Linda Codega

Our Favorite Toys of 2022

It's been a good year for putting lots of silly things on our desks and being satisfied by that.

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook & Andrew Liszewski & Rob Bricken

Avatar 2 Continues to Make Waves at the Box Office

Despite horrible weather across the United States, Avatar: The Way of Water draws audiences to the theater.

Movies Linda Codega

3 Seconds of Every TNG Episode Is a Wild Way to Experience Star Trek

Don't have 130 hours to binge-watch The Next Generation ? This kind of gets you sorted in just under 10 minutes!

Television James Whitbrook

Outlander Season 7 Dreams of Electric Shee—Er, Lights

A new trailer lights the way for the next installment of the intergenerational historical romance-cum-time-travel series.

Trailers Rob Bricken

How Would a Self-Driving Car Handle the Trolley Problem?

In an excerpt from "Robot Ethics," professor Mark Coeckelbergh examines how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save

Artificial Intelligence Mark Coeckelbergh

December 25th 2022

Screenshot: Universal Pictures

The Era Defining Naughtiness of The Live-Action The Grinch Can Be Explained By One Small Detail

The energy carried by Martha May Whovier makes a lot of sense now, huh?

Movies Sabina Graves

Photo: Andrii Gladii/Creative Commons

The Many Horrors of an Icelandic Christmas

Sorry, Krampus, there’s a new yuletide terror in town—several of them, in fact.

io9 Rob Bricken

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