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AMC’s CEO Apparently Didn’t Bother to Put on Pants for This YouTube Interview

AMC is the latest meme stock darling for hordes of online investors, and CEO Adam Aron has been leaning heavily into the company’s newfound virality. However, I doubt he ever expected to become a meme himself, as was the case this week after he appeared to be pantless during a live interview with a YouTuber.…

Internet Alyse Stanley

This New Documentary on Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Looks Like a Security Blanket for Your Soul

There have been several documentaries about and tributes for Charlie Brown and Snoopy, along with their creator, Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. But there’s still plenty of room for more, which is good because Apple TV has a new one on the way titled Who Are You, Charlie Brown? and its first trailer is here.…

Television Rob Bricken

The King of the Monsters and the Queen of Jurassic Park Are the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of everything good and plastic we’d like to spend all our money on. This week: Lego takes us back to the time of Batusi and “Let It Go” in new Batman and Frozen sets, Singular Point’s chonky new Godzilla puts the Big in Big G, and…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Microsoft Blames ‘Human Error’ Amid Suspicion It Censored Bing Results for Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’

It’s June 4, the 32nd anniversary of the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when Chinese troops crushed a pro-democracy protest movement by opening fire on and slaughtering hundreds of demonstrators in Beijing. The Chinese government doesn’t like talking about it, and it doesn’t like when others talk about it, either. It’s near the top of…

Tech News Tom McKay

8 Money Toilets

A ferocious bidding war over a misshapen chicken nugget concluded at $99,997 in the wee hours of Friday morning. Doesn’t seem weird at all, in a world where people are spending millions of dollars for blockchain tokens backed only by words. But wait, is this a sign of a healthy economy, us walking around like…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-Winning Broken Earth Trilogy Is Coming to the Big Screen

N.K. Jemisin has already made history by winning three consecutive Hugo awards for each entry in her Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky. Now, the perhaps inevitable next step is here, with a just-announced big-screen deal with Sony’s TriStar Pictures that will see the author adapting her own…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Dell Sued for Promising Alienware Laptops Could Be Upgraded

Dell is being taken to court in California over the company’s claims that its Alienware Area 51m-R1 gaming laptops can be upgraded. In his lawsuit, Robert Felter claimed Dell misled customers about the upgradability of its Area-51m gaming laptops after the company failed to provide replacement parts that would allow users to upgrade their CPUs…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Cops Are Now Using a High-Tech Lasso on People

In an apparent effort to kill fewer people, police departments across the country are investing in what is basically a high-tech lasso designed to automatically restrain suspects without cops having to electrocute or shoot them. As recently noted by Motherboard, the BolaWrap Remote Restraint device looks a lot like a taser and functions, more or…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Into the Spider-Verse 2 Recruits Issa Rae as Spider-Woman

We don’t know what the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is actually going to be called yet, but its first new cast member has just been revealed. It’s Issa Rae, best known for creating and starring in the HBO show Insecure, who’ll be voicing Jessica Drew, aka, Spider-Woman. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.…

Movies Germain Lussier

Ok, This Is Clearly Not the Classified Alien Report We’re Looking For

For anyone naive enough to believe the forthcoming congressionally-ordered report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) observed by U.S. military personnel in recent years would shed some light on the issue, you’re probably about to be let down big time. Reports on Friday, citing people familiar with the inquiry, indicated that the government either hasn’t figured…

Tech News Tom McKay

Infinite‘s New Trailer Forgoes Plot for a Ludicrous Amount of Action

The first trailer for Mark Wahlberg’s upcoming sorta-sci-fi movie Infinite dropped a mere week ago, explaining how a select group of constantly reincarnating people keep their memories and fight each other. This new trailer drops all that to present the movie as a Fast and the Furious clone built on the bones of Netflix’s very…

Trailers Rob Bricken

FDA Approves ‘Game Changer’ Weight Loss Drug, Likely First in a New Era of Obesity Treatment

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new injectable medication for treating obesity—one shown to help people lose a significant amount of weight in clinical trials when taken regularly. The drug, called Wegovy, may just signal a new era in obesity treatment. Wegovy will be approved for chronic weight management in adults living…

Health Ed Cara

Ball in God’s Court as Utah Governor Declares ‘Weekend of Prayer’ for Rain

We've reached the literally "praying for rain" phase of the West's megadrought.

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Image: Matto Lolli, Edgar Delgado, Cory Petit/Marvel

X-Men’s Hellfire Gala Is Already a Scandal, Surprising No One

After weeks of hype-building, the X-Men’s 2021 Hellfire Gala kicked off this week in the pages of Marvel’s ongoing Hellions, Marauders, and X-Force series. Unsurprisingly, the extravagant mutant gathering is already threatening to upend the delicate balance of power keeping humanity from going to war with Krakoa. Let it be said, though, that everyone arrived…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

NASA Has Spotted Sneaky Methane Emissions From the Biggest Oilfield in America

We have an "opportunity to fix these super emitters.”

Energy Molly Taft

Gorgeous New Short Film Shows Us What an Early Lunar Colony Would Actually Look Like

Called Life Beyond Earth, the four-minute short film presents a realistic vision of a future lunar base and the sustainable habitats that could turn this long-sought goal into a reality. The concept shown in the film was developed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and it’s part of an installation currently on display…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World‘s Full Soundtrack Is Finally Coming to Streaming

It’s a good day when you can rock out to the sweet sounds of Envy Adams (Brie Larson) leading the Clash at Demonhead—and it’s only a sign of more to come. Edgar Wright, the director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, took to social media Friday to announce that the expanded edition of the film’s…

Movies Germain Lussier

Boston Dynamics’ Robotic Dog Can Now Play the Saddest Futuristic Game of Fetch

Boston Dynamics promises its impressive Spot robot can do a lot of things, but as we can see in the company’s latest demo, replacing the family pet isn’t one of them. Even with incredible autonomy, advanced sensors, and an articulated arm instead of a head and neck, Spot manages to make a fun interaction like…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Sweet Tooth’s Showrunners on the Heart of the Show and Changes From the Comic

If you were just to list all the elements that make up the new Netflix show Sweet Tooth, you’d think it was just a bunch of random ideas thrown together. In fact, let’s test that theory: deer boy. Robert Downey Jr. Post-apocalypse. Animal army. DC Comics. Football star. Lord of the Rings. VR gaming. Weird,…

Television Germain Lussier

Paleontologists Study 9,000-Year-Old Aurochs Bones and Wonder if the Beasts Were Tamed

For some 9,000 years, the bones of three aurochs—huge, extinct ancestors of modern cattle—languished at the bottom of a cave in northwestern Spain. A team of paleontologists have now genetically sampled the Mesolithic remains, which were found in the 1990s near a human skeleton, and they believe that the DNA could help decipher the mystery of…

Biology Isaac Schultz

AMC’s CEO Apparently Didn’t Bother to Put on Pants for This YouTube Interview

This New Documentary on Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Looks Like a Security Blanket for Your Soul

The King of the Monsters and the Queen of Jurassic Park Are the Best Toys of the Week

Microsoft Blames ‘Human Error’ Amid Suspicion It Censored Bing Results for Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’

8 Money Toilets

N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-Winning Broken Earth Trilogy Is Coming to the Big Screen

Dell Sued for Promising Alienware Laptops Could Be Upgraded

Cops Are Now Using a High-Tech Lasso on People

Into the Spider-Verse 2 Recruits Issa Rae as Spider-Woman

Ok, This Is Clearly Not the Classified Alien Report We’re Looking For

Infinite‘s New Trailer Forgoes Plot for a Ludicrous Amount of Action

FDA Approves ‘Game Changer’ Weight Loss Drug, Likely First in a New Era of Obesity Treatment

Ball in God’s Court as Utah Governor Declares ‘Weekend of Prayer’ for Rain

X-Men’s Hellfire Gala Is Already a Scandal, Surprising No One

NASA Has Spotted Sneaky Methane Emissions From the Biggest Oilfield in America

Gorgeous New Short Film Shows Us What an Early Lunar Colony Would Actually Look Like

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World‘s Full Soundtrack Is Finally Coming to Streaming

Boston Dynamics’ Robotic Dog Can Now Play the Saddest Futuristic Game of Fetch

Sweet Tooth’s Showrunners on the Heart of the Show and Changes From the Comic

Paleontologists Study 9,000-Year-Old Aurochs Bones and Wonder if the Beasts Were Tamed

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