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WandaVision‘s Finale Nearly Featured Señor Scratchy’s Dark Secret

Although WandaVision had no shortage of mysteries and Easter eggs, fans overthought just every aspect of the show they could, even down to some believing Mephisto, the Marvel comics universe’s analog for Satan, was lurking behind the floppy ears of Agatha’s pet rabbit Señor Scratchy. They were wrong, but it turns out the bunny was…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Sony Animation’s Next Hero Team Is a K-Pop Group

They’re also demon hunters. Singing demon hunters. So…where do we sign up? Sony Pictures Animation has revealed that The Lego Ninjago Movie’s Maggie Kang and Wish Dragon’s Chris Appelhans will direct K-Pop: Demon Hunters, which is, well, exactly what it says it is. An animated musical, the movie will follow a girl group that travels…

Movies James Whitbrook

How to Use a Hardware Wallet to Store Your Crypto

Keeping your cryptocurrency in the exchange where you bought it, be it Kraken, Coinbase, or Gemini, is inherently dangerous. Most of us will dip a toe into the crypto markets by visiting one of these markets and buying a few hundred dollars in currency. But then what do you do with it? Well, you can…

Gadgets John Biggs

Zack Snyder’s Justice League Was Available Today on HBO Max (Briefly)

Almost like the Flash had smashed time and space, for a moment, March 8 jumped ahead and became March 18: Zack Snyder’s Justice League was on HBO Max. Then, just as quickly, it was gone. At 4:24 p.m. EST on Monday, March 8, Twitter user @ThenDougSaid pressed play on HBO Max’s Tom and Jerry only…

Movies Germain Lussier

MyPillow Guy Says He’s Starting Some Kind of Little Twitter Platform That’s ‘Not Just Like a Little Twitter Platform’

Mike Lindell, America’s pillow man, may be being sued for $1.3 billion for spreading hoax, pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories claiming election tech manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems engaged in massive fraud to get Joe Biden into office. But soon that might only be a sliver of the MyPillow founder’s riches, because he’s launching some sort of…

Tech News Tom McKay

Microsoft’s ‘Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. businesses and governments, primarily to steal large troves of email data. Since then,…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

The io9 Coven Breaks Down the Highs and Lows of WandaVision

WandaVision has come to a close, and with it, Wanda Maximoff and her synthezoid paramour have been forever changed.

Television James Whitbrook & Charles Pulliam-Moore & Jill Pantozzi & Germain Lussier

Cleanup Costs at the Damaged Arecibo Observatory Could Reach $50 Million

A new estimate suggests it’ll cost somewhere between $30 million and $50 million to clean up the mess created by the collapse of the iconic Arecibo Observatory dish late last year, according to an NSF report detailing the aftermath of the disaster and possible next steps. The investigation into the cause of the collapse at…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Doctor Who‘s Jo Martin Reflects on the Power of Being a Black, Female Doctor

The last season of Doctor Who flipped the titular Time Lord’s script, upending the 13th Doctor as she learned shocking truths about her homeworld, her entire species, and above all, herself. But one of those shocks—the existence of a renegade past-self beyond any of the incarnations she knew about—has a lot more story to tell.…

io9 James Whitbrook

If Skynet Takes Over, Try Writing ‘Robot’ on Your Shirt

Tricking a terminator into not shooting you might be as simple as wearing a giant sign that says ROBOT, at least until Elon Musk-backed research outfit OpenAI trains their image recognition system not to misidentify things based on some scribbles from a Sharpie. OpenAI researchers published work last week on the CLIP neural network, their…

Tech News Tom McKay

We Have a Chance to Keep the Tropics Habitable

If we can hit the most aggressive targets set by the Paris Agreement, we could stave off the worst health impacts for people living in one of the most climate-vulnerable areas on Earth. A study published Monday in Nature Geoscience projects that the tropics will stay habitable to humans if we can keep warming below…

Earther Molly Taft

CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Can Socialize Indoors Unmasked, With a Few Exceptions

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have come out with new guidelines for people who are vaccinated against covid-19. Chief among them is the reassurance that fully vaccinated people can safely spend time indoors unmasked with other vaccinated people and even unvaccinated people in certain situations. It still calls for these people to practice…

Health Ed Cara

Space Jam 2‘s New Legacy Doesn’t Include a Certain Sexually Predatory Skunk

Space Jam: A New Legacy has “canceled” Pepé le Pew. You might assume a kids’ movie dropping a character whose sole characteristic is his desire to molest female characters without their consent is an unequivocally good thing, but it’s actually more complicated than you might think. According to Deadline, Pepe’s scene did, of course, feature…

Movies Rob Bricken

The One Thing About Raya and the Last Dragon That Never Changed

Whether it hails from Pixar or Disney Animation, an animated feature film from Disney is never the same at the end as it is at the beginning. The production model is such that, in the years it takes to make a movie likeRaya and the Last Dragon, anything and everything can change—as long as that…

Movies Germain Lussier

Google TV Brings Kids Profiles to an Already Fantastic Streaming Device

Google TV is bringing new parental controls to its streaming device. The company announced that beginning Monday, parents or guardians can now create individual profiles for each of the kids in their households with either their name and age or an existing Google account, should they have one. From these new profiles, account holders will…

Internet Catie Keck

Scientists Warn Diphtheria Is on the Rise, Could Become Major Global Threat Again

A nearly vanquished infectious disease looks to be making a comeback. In a new paper this week, scientists warn that cases of diphtheria have gradually increased in recent years, while there are signs that antibiotics and vaccines against the bacteria could be in danger of losing their potency as the germ continues to evolve. Diphtheria…

Health Ed Cara

Get an Exclusive Peek at Peter V. Brett’s Return to the Demon Cycle World With The Desert Prince

Fantasy author Peter V. Brett returns to the world of his very popular Demon Cycle novels with The Desert Prince, which kicks off a new series that’s aimed at both seasoned Brett fans and newcomers alike. Today, io9 has a sneak peek at the cover and one of the book’s opening chapters, so read on…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Elon Musk Is Reportedly Plugging a Giant Battery Into Texas

If the Texas power crisis taught us anything, it’s that the state has some serious infrastructure issues that not eventhe state’s regulators are prepared to fix. Thankfully, everyone’s favorite high-profile Twitter troll, Elon Musk, might have a plan: a giant battery ready to plug more than 16,000 homes’ worth of power into the state’s electric…

Energy Shoshana Wodinsky

Star Trek: Picard‘s Showrunner Just Dropped a Distressing Amount of Information on Romulan Romance

Star Trek: Picard presented the first chance to explore what the franchise’s “contemporary” post-Nemesis timeline actually looked like. It delved into the ramifications of a galaxy shook by the devastating implosion of the Romulan Empire and the loss of its homeworlds. But for all the Romulan intrigue, Picard’s showrunner apparently had much, much more to…

io9 James Whitbrook

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler

That magical spot in Jezero crater where NASA’s Perseverance rover made its historic landing last month has been named “Octavia E. Butler Landing” in honor of the late sci-fi author. “I can think of no better person to mark this historic landing site than Octavia E. Butler, who not only grew up next door to…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

WandaVision‘s Finale Nearly Featured Señor Scratchy’s Dark Secret

Sony Animation’s Next Hero Team Is a K-Pop Group

How to Use a Hardware Wallet to Store Your Crypto

Zack Snyder’s Justice League Was Available Today on HBO Max (Briefly)

MyPillow Guy Says He’s Starting Some Kind of Little Twitter Platform That’s ‘Not Just Like a Little Twitter Platform’

Microsoft’s ‘Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

The io9 Coven Breaks Down the Highs and Lows of WandaVision

Cleanup Costs at the Damaged Arecibo Observatory Could Reach $50 Million

Doctor Who‘s Jo Martin Reflects on the Power of Being a Black, Female Doctor

If Skynet Takes Over, Try Writing ‘Robot’ on Your Shirt

We Have a Chance to Keep the Tropics Habitable

CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Can Socialize Indoors Unmasked, With a Few Exceptions

Space Jam 2‘s New Legacy Doesn’t Include a Certain Sexually Predatory Skunk

The One Thing About Raya and the Last Dragon That Never Changed

Google TV Brings Kids Profiles to an Already Fantastic Streaming Device

Scientists Warn Diphtheria Is on the Rise, Could Become Major Global Threat Again

Get an Exclusive Peek at Peter V. Brett’s Return to the Demon Cycle World With The Desert Prince

Elon Musk Is Reportedly Plugging a Giant Battery Into Texas

Star Trek: Picard‘s Showrunner Just Dropped a Distressing Amount of Information on Romulan Romance

Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler

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