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Sam Raimi Has a Promising Update on the Future of Evil Dead

Though, unfortunately, it looks like it won’t be featuring Ash Williams. In a recent Ask Me Anything on Reddit, Sam Raimi, promoting the remake of The Grudge, which he helped produce, took some time to answer one of the most obvious questions you could ask Sam Raimi: yo, what about Evil Dead? Last we heard…

Movies Julie Muncy

Here’s What to Expect From CES 2020

Because each individual day of 2019 felt like it stretched on for 100 years, you would absolutely be forgiven for forgetting that the largest technology show of the year immediately follows the start of the new year. But folks, the Consumer Electronics Show is happening—mere days from now, in fact—which means that the Gizmodo staff…

Tech News Catie Keck

Geoengineering Wouldn’t Be Enough to Stop Greenland From Melting

When the Greenland ice sheet went into a record meltdown in the summer of 2019, it raised a very terrifying specter of the future. Here was a 12.5-billion-ton mass of ice—one that’s been melting at a quickening pace since the 1980s—melting in a way scientists didn’t expect to happen for decades. While the ice sheet…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Trump Starts 2020 With a New Bid to Ignore Climate Change

In its first environmental rollback of the new year, the Trump administration aims to weaken regulations that require federal agencies to consider climate change when assessing the environmental impacts of new infrastructure projects, the New York Times reported Thursday. The proposed amendments would nullify a mandate from the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that…

Climate Change Alyse Stanley

Joker Director Todd Phillips Wants To See, But Not Make, A Batman Film Based On His Universe

There’s still no update on what happens next for Todd Phillips’ Joker. After making over $1 billion at the box office, awards-season glory is one possibility. A sequel is another, though there hasn’t been any movement on that front. Another idea is something Phillips himself wants to see, but not actually do. “It’s a beautiful…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Anatomy of Online Bullshit in the Fog of Impending Doom

Early local time on Friday, the U.S. assassinated high-ranking Iranian official Qassem Soleimani and multiple other people with a targeted airstrike at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. Or they were killed on the battlefield in a totally legal, non-assassination, depending on who you believe. The White House portrayed the killing of Soleimani, a major general…

Politics Tom McKay

The New Mutants: A Brief History of the Marvel Movie We Never Thought We’d See

On Friday the 13th of October, 2017, Fox released a trailer for a superhero movie called The New Mutants. It touted a release date of April 13, 2018. Fast forward over two years. On January 6, 2020, another trailer for the film will drop, this time touting an April 3, 2020 release date. In that…

Movies Germain Lussier

This Week’s Best Toys Include America’s Ass and So Many Batmans (So Many)

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round-up of all the cool new toys we’ve seen on the internet lately. And by lately, we mean “already starting to write our Christmas 2020 gift lists!” This week, we’ve got not one, but two big new DC Comics lines revealed, a most impressive Star Wars model kit,…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

There Is No Military Draft at This Time

The future may be uncertain, but the present is clear. Presently, there is no military draft in the United States—even if TikTok told you otherwise. The Selective Service System, the government agency that retains mandatory registration information on U.S. men for possible conscription, tweeted today that its website was “experiencing high traffic volumes” due to…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Surprise! Infinity Train Is Back With Season 2, and It’s Got a Shocking New Hero

The arrival of 2020 may have been all about the masterful return of Doctor Who, but hidden in the shadows another series popped back into our lives. Cartoon Network has unveiled the first episode of Infinity Train’s second season (now available on its website), putting a mysterious but familiar character in the conductor’s seat. The debut…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Trump’s ‘Tremendous Work’ on Superfund Sites Includes Not Funding Their Cleanup

The Environmental Protection Agency under Donald Trump promised to clean up the most polluted sites in the U.S. Remember former administrator Scott Pruitt? He loved to go on and on about doing this when he wasn’t grifting. Well, turns out the EPA is doing a worse job under this dumb-ass president than it has in…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Who Put This Dragon in the New Dolittle Trailer?

When you think “Doctor Dolittle” a number of things like “talking animals” and “some of Eddie Murphy’s finest work” come to mind. What doesn’t tend to come to mind is “fire-breathing dragons,” but the latest trailer for Universal’s new attempt as turning the Dolittle brand into an action franchise wants to change that. Emphasis on…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

I Really Hope This Isn’t the Only Trick Up OnePlus’s Sleeve

CES 2020 starts next week, so naturally, OnePlus is trying to get the hype started early by teasing its soon-to-be-announced concept phone. But so far, the only major thing OnePlus has revealed about the phone is that it has… some tintable glass? I don’t mean to sound so dejected, electrochromic glass is pretty cool. For…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

The Current Heads of Apple TV+ Should Be Terrified

Apple just entered an exclusive partnership with Richard Plepler, one of the chief architects of HBO’s last two decades of success. According to the New York Times, Plepler’s new production company has a five-year exclusivity deal with Apple’s TV+. If Apple’s entertainment executives aren’t worried about what the incoming titan’s arrival means for their jobs…

Tech News Catie Keck

Makoto Shinkai on Your Name‘s Success, and the Climate Message at the Heart of His New Movie

Your Name, to the delight of millions the world over, made huge waves in 2016—putting esteemed anime director Makoto Shinkai on the international map, despite a career in the industry spanning over two decades. How does an artist follow up a career-defining piece of work? For Shinkai, it all came back to remembering his audience.…

Movies James Whitbrook

An Astronaut Aboard the ISS Had to Be Treated for a Perilous Blood Clot

The list of bad things that can happen to you in space has gotten longer. A new paper this week details how an astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS) developed a potentially serious blood clot, the first ever documented in space. According to the paper, published this week in the New England Journal…

Space & Spaceflight Ed Cara

Indonesia Turns to Weather Control to Stop Rains Amidst Deadly Floods

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta experienced some of the worst flooding in nearly a decade as the new year began this week. At least 43 people have died and nearly 400,000 have been left displaced. More rains are expected in the coming week, further adding to the country’s watery woes. As a last-ditch effort to…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes

TikTok Owner ByteDance Has Reportedly Been Working on a ‘Safer’ Deepfake Feature

ByteDance, the owner behind TikTok, has been secretly building a deepfake feature that would allow users to insert their faces into videos they’re not actually in, according to a TechCrunch report. While the feature is not live yet, it would appear that TikTok and Douyin—TikTok’s sister app in China—both feature code for taking multiangle biometric…

Tech News Victoria Song

Killer Nuns Are the Coolest Thing About Dracula‘s Final Trailer

While Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ upcoming Dracula series will obviously feature its fair share of moments in which the titular vampire terrifies the living daylights out of unsuspecting mortals. But it’s also meant to tell a story about what kinds of things legitimately strike fear into the hearts of the bloodsucking undead. Sunlight? Sure.…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

No, Graffiti Did Not Appear Overnight in Iran Thanking President Trump

Have you seen the photo above doing the rounds on social media today in the wake of the assassination of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani? The Trump regime took credit for killing Soleimani overnight, and some conservatives claim that Iranians are thankful that Trump killed him. According to folks on Twitter, the graffiti on the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Sam Raimi Has a Promising Update on the Future of Evil Dead

Here’s What to Expect From CES 2020

Geoengineering Wouldn’t Be Enough to Stop Greenland From Melting

Trump Starts 2020 With a New Bid to Ignore Climate Change

Joker Director Todd Phillips Wants To See, But Not Make, A Batman Film Based On His Universe

The Anatomy of Online Bullshit in the Fog of Impending Doom

The New Mutants: A Brief History of the Marvel Movie We Never Thought We’d See

This Week’s Best Toys Include America’s Ass and So Many Batmans (So Many)

There Is No Military Draft at This Time

Surprise! Infinity Train Is Back With Season 2, and It’s Got a Shocking New Hero

Trump’s ‘Tremendous Work’ on Superfund Sites Includes Not Funding Their Cleanup

Who Put This Dragon in the New Dolittle Trailer?

I Really Hope This Isn’t the Only Trick Up OnePlus’s Sleeve

The Current Heads of Apple TV+ Should Be Terrified

Makoto Shinkai on Your Name‘s Success, and the Climate Message at the Heart of His New Movie

An Astronaut Aboard the ISS Had to Be Treated for a Perilous Blood Clot

Indonesia Turns to Weather Control to Stop Rains Amidst Deadly Floods

TikTok Owner ByteDance Has Reportedly Been Working on a ‘Safer’ Deepfake Feature

Killer Nuns Are the Coolest Thing About Dracula‘s Final Trailer

No, Graffiti Did Not Appear Overnight in Iran Thanking President Trump

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