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Watch the Stars of Batwoman Season 2 Describe the New Season in One Word

The second season of Batwoman will represent a soft reboot for the series, a beginning of a rebuilding effort after the first star, Ruby Rose, left the show. With Javicia Leslie asthe new Batwoman, the show is geared up to begin anew. But what’s it going to be like? In a cute new video from…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

The Instagram Insurrection

The first inkling I had that something was very wrong on Wednesday was when my wife said, “Oh shit, is this real?” as we were en route to Trader Joe’s after spending a few hours on the cold, sun-drenched beaches of Long Island for a winter walk on our last day of a vacation. A…

Tech News Brian Kahn

DraftKings Now Allows Betting on Drone Races in Certain States

So far, 21st-century tech hasn’t quite lived up to all that sci-fi tropes promised. But while everyone may not have flying cars or their own holodeck yet, you can now bet on drone races from your phone in certain states, and I think that’s pretty dang futuristic. The Drone Racing League announced a deal with…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

YouTube Kicks Steve Bannon’s War Room Podcast Off the Platform

Banning, it seems, is in this week. Google and Apple have kicked out social media app Parler from their app stores; Reddit has banned r/donaldtrump, the unofficial subreddit dedicated to President Donald Trump; and Twitter has banned the president himself, as well as other high-profile supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory. YouTube decided toadd to…

Tech News Jody Serrano

This Gorgeous Soul Art Tribute Was Made in Virtual Reality

This tribute to Disney and Pixar’s Soul is impressive, and even moreso when you find out how it was made. Virtual reality is a cool medium for a lot of things. One of those is art—programs like Tilt Brush let artists like That Sabby Life create three-dimensional art pieces entirely in VR. It’s not an…

Movies Julie Muncy

Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots

Online platforms are hastily cutting ties with President Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has called for investigations and increased…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

This Video Goes Behind-the-Scenes on Star Trek: Discovery‘s Climactic Season 3 Finale

That was a big one, wasn’t it? Now that the third season of Star Trek: Discovery is over, there are some big transformations to think about. In a new behind-the-scenes video, executive producers Michelle Paradise and Olatunde Osunsanmi along with some of the show’s stars reflect on what’s happened, how it means, and how it…

io9 Julie Muncy

Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as It Is Weird

Critics have seen the first three episodes of WandaVision, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series starring Scarlet Witch and the Vision as they take on their greatest challenge yet: the sitcom. Which means we’ve got impressions. The early verdict is that the show, from what has been seen so far, is pretty compelling, albeit substantially…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Marvel’s Moon Knight Series Has 2 New Directors

Oscar Isaac is attached to star in Disney’s upcoming Moon Knight series. Now, the project has added two additional directors to its lineup. A TV show usually needs more than one, you know. Originally, Disney announced Mohamed Diab (Clash), an Egyptian filmmaker, to head up the series. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, he’s being…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently

Meteorites that formed in the earliest days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research, lending credence to the theory that meteorites brought water and other precursors for life to our planet billions of years ago. Carbonaceous chondrites are a special group of meteorites that trace their origins back to the…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Google And Apple Kick Parler Off Their App Stores [Update: Amazon Jumps on the Ban Train]

Updated: 1/9/2021, 8:24 p.m. ET: Apple has finally pulled the trigger! On Saturday Apple followed Google’s lead and purged Parler’s app from its app store. The social network’s sales pitch of being “the world’s premier free speech platform” has turned it into a breeding ground for deplatformed conservatives who reportedly used Parler among other sites…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Yeah, This Is the Week for a Centipikachu Plush

Christmas is out of the way, and covid-19 has cancelled New York Toy Fair, but also: It’s Been a Week. So your regular check-in with all things toy this week on io9 is a little light, but really—what more do you need than a distressingly long Pikachu to cuddle? New Wave Toys Asteroids X RepliCade…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Twitter Doesn’t Like Piracy, Even When It’s in the Public Service

Across Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million papers from across the globe. If you haven’t heard of Sci-Hub, here’s what you need to know: Back in 2011, a computer programmer named…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Jack Offs Trump

Rest in piss, @realDonaldTrump: Twitter has permanently suspended the president after he incited a riot at the Capitol this week. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them—specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter—we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk…

Tech News Tom McKay

Netflix’s New Adventure Film Shares More than a Few Links to The Goonies

At this point, a sequel to The Goonies seems unlikely. What’s more likely would be some sort of modernized remake—and if that happened, it just might look like Finding ‘Ohana. Directed by Jude Weng and written by Christina Strain, Finding ‘Ohana is a Netflix original movie about a family forced to leave their New York…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Twitter Cracks Down on Qanon Accounts for Role in Capitol Riot

Twitter removed the accounts of a number of high-profile supporters of the Qanon conspiracy theory this Friday after their alleged role in spurring on the violent, pro-Trump insurgency at the U.S. Capitol building Thursday. Among the purged were former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who not only has shown a willingness to Tweet out…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Supreme Court Asked to Consider if Fifth Amendment Protects Passwords

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, two of the nation’s largest defenders of digital privacy, are asking the Supreme Court to stop criminal prosecutors from forcing people to unlock their own cellphones, under the argument that the U.S. Constitution’s protection against self-incrimination applies equally to passwords. While the debate is hardly…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

West Virginia Lawmaker Livestreamed His Way Into Federal Charges

We can add one more name to the growing list of co-conspirators, sycophants, ladder climbers, and lawmakers who are hoping for a last-minute pardon from President Trump. An official with the Department of Justice announced on Friday that Derrick Evans, a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, will face criminal charges for his…

Tech News Rhett Jones

CW Clips the Wings of Green Arrow and the Canaries

Not every superhero is getting the chance to fly. CW has announced that it’s choosing not to pick up the Arrow spinoff Green Arrow and the Canaries to series, meaning a key part of the Arrowverse will officially come to an end. After many months of wondering we now know, thanks to the Hollywood Reporter,…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Reddit Bans r/Conspiracy Moderator and r/DonaldTrump

Amid a hardening consensus that conspiracy theories emboldened this week’s Capitol Building rioters—many adorned with “Q” garments, waving Q flags, screaming about election fraud—Reddit is quietly weeding out spreaders of election-related conspiracies. As the Daily Dot first reported, Reddit admins on Thursday permanently suspended the account for r/conspiracy’s head moderator, axolotl_peyotl. He recently posted about…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Watch the Stars of Batwoman Season 2 Describe the New Season in One Word

The Instagram Insurrection

DraftKings Now Allows Betting on Drone Races in Certain States

YouTube Kicks Steve Bannon’s War Room Podcast Off the Platform

This Gorgeous Soul Art Tribute Was Made in Virtual Reality

Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots

This Video Goes Behind-the-Scenes on Star Trek: Discovery‘s Climactic Season 3 Finale

Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as It Is Weird

Marvel’s Moon Knight Series Has 2 New Directors

Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently

Google And Apple Kick Parler Off Their App Stores [Update: Amazon Jumps on the Ban Train]

Yeah, This Is the Week for a Centipikachu Plush

Twitter Doesn’t Like Piracy, Even When It’s in the Public Service

Jack Offs Trump

Netflix’s New Adventure Film Shares More than a Few Links to The Goonies

Twitter Cracks Down on Qanon Accounts for Role in Capitol Riot

Supreme Court Asked to Consider if Fifth Amendment Protects Passwords

West Virginia Lawmaker Livestreamed His Way Into Federal Charges

CW Clips the Wings of Green Arrow and the Canaries

Reddit Bans r/Conspiracy Moderator and r/DonaldTrump

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