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Marvel’s WandaVision Is Arriving Sooner Than Expected

James Gunn says he won’t bring Yondu back from the grave for the third Guardians of the Galaxy. Nicholas Pesce reveals his plans for even more Grudge movies. Plus, a new glimpse at the next Mobile Suit Gundam movie, and what’s to come on this Sunday’s Doctor Who. Here’s to a new year of spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook

Poop-Spotting Cameras Could Be This Robovac’s Secret Weapon

The biggest problem with even the smartest robovacs is that they’re not actually that smart. They can navigate your home and avoid collisions with large pieces of furniture, but smaller obstacles, like hazards left behind by pets, they’ll simply plow right through creating even larger messes. Lucy, a new robot vacuum from a company called…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Chelsea Manning Responds After Top U.N. Official Labels Her Imprisonment ‘Torture’

In her first public statement since a top United Nations official equated her imprisonment to torture, former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning reaffirmed her pledge to remain in jail rather than testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “My long-standing objection to the immoral practice of throwing people in jail without charge…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Come Shaken, Not Stirred, to Our Spoiler-Laden Doctor Who Premiere Discussion Zone

It must be every once in a while in a very long while, every day in a million days when the wind stands fair—because The Doctor has come to call, and she’s brought a brand new season of Doctor Who with her. The explosive season premiere has just wrapped up, so come chat about it…

io9 James Whitbrook

I Am Hooked on Riverdale Cringe Videos

I mostly watch Riverdale nowadays to make fun of it, and I don’t think I’m the only one. In fact, I can’t imagine there’s anyone out there who actually takes this show seriously anymore, including the show itself (with the occasional exception, like the Luke Perry tribute episode). Once you put a cult leader in…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Music Streaming Jumped to 80 Percent of the U.S. Market by the End of the Decade

Music streaming made a killing this decade as far as U.S. market domination—and more and more users are willing to pay for it too, according to statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America. The organization this week tweeted several infographics of music listening trends in the U.S. over the course of the last ten…

Tech News Catie Keck

Start the New Year as You Mean to Go on With These Hot ‘Toss a Coin to Your Witcher’ Remixes

We ended 2019 obsessed with a gleefully dumb bard’s equally gleefully dumb banger of a tune. It’s a new year, a new you: so experience said gleefully dumb song in a slightly new way! Much has already been said about The Witcher since it hit Netflix over the holiday season, providing us all with the…

io9 James Whitbrook

Director Mark Duplass on Room 104 and the Pleasures (and Pains) of Creative Constraint

An interview with writer, actor, director, and co-creator Mark Duplass on his latest artistic endeavor: HBO series Room 104

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All These New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Will Help Jump-Start Your New Year’s Resolution to Read More

January 2020 is here, and it arrives bringing tons of new reading material to propel you into alternate dimensions, to war-torn planets, into realms of strange magic, and so much more, with books by Seanan McGuire, Kameron Hurley, R.A. Salvatore, William Gibson, and over 30 others. City of Stone and Silence by Django Wexler The…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

FDA Is Reportedly Preparing to Ban Fruity E-Cigarette Pod Flavors

After raising the age restriction on vaping and other tobacco products to 21, the Food and Drug Administration is reportedly readying to ban all pod-based e-cigarette flavors except menthol and tobacco. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the agency’s plans for the prohibition on fruity pods could be…

Tech News Catie Keck

Forget the Baby Yoda, It’s the Werner Herzog Funko Pop I Want

I would like to see the baby Funko Pop. Last year, Triple Force Friday already gave us a little morsel of Mandalorian-themed bobbleheads in Funko’s all-out-merchandisification of the Galaxy far, far away. But given that The Mandalorian had yet to reveal all of its secrets at that point, there was only so much the company…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook

ExxonMobil Wishes Australia a ‘Fun’ New Year as Country Burns in Climate Crisis

ExxonMobil sent out a heartwarming tweet yesterday, wishing the good people of Australia a “safe” and “fun” New Year. Well, maybe heartwarming isn’t the right word. Perhaps “idiotic” is more appropriate, given the fact that large parts of Australia are currently on fire thanks in part to ExxonMobil’s history of climate change denial. Australia’s capital…

Earther Matt Novak

Weathering With You Is a Gorgeous, Earnest Romance That Can’t Quite Escape Your Name‘s Shadow

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A boy yearning for a better life in the big city and a girl discovering magical powers she doesn’t understand are pulled together by fate and fantasy, their shared secret in this magical ability ultimately blossoming into love. That’s the premise of Makoto Shinkai’s latest animated movie, but…

Movies James Whitbrook

The MacBook Pro 16 Needs to Be the Future of Apple Laptops

If you’ve bought an Apple laptop in the last few years and you try out the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, you will be furious. It’s so good. It works precisely as a laptop should—the issues that have plagued Apple’s laptops in recent years seem absent. Everything about the device seems to follow an age-old Apple…

Laptops Alex Cranz

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All of io9’s 2019 Year in Review Lists in One Convenient Location

It’s officially 2020—but since some of you are lucky enough to have the first day of the new year off, we thought you might want some reading material to pass the time. The holidays are a busy season, so just in case you missed some of our many “year in review” lists, here they are…

io9 Jill Pantozzi

Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today

Today isn’t just a day to nurse your hangover from New Year’s Eve—it’s also a day to celebrate the public domain. Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you’re free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it’s completely legal. Some…

Tech News Matt Novak

For My New Year’s Resolution, I’m Preparing a Climate Doomsday Kit

I spend a lot of time thinking about the impending climate apocalypse. I mean, c’mon, I write about it for a living. However, with this clear understanding of where humanity is headed if we don’t get our shit together comes a lot of fear and anxiety. How do I deal with such feelings? Why, plans…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

The Best Authenticator Apps for Protecting Your Accounts

Finding the authenticator apps that will help ease your privacy concerns.

Gadgets David Nield

Julian Assange Says He’s ‘Slowly Dying’ in Prison During Christmas Eve Phone Call: Report

Julian Assange is slurring his speech and worried about dying in prison, according to a new report from British journalist and former Army officer Vaughan Smith. The journalist spoke with Russian state TV network RT on Tuesday and revealed that Assange called him over the phone from Britain’s Belmarsh prison on Christmas Eve. “He said…

Tech News Matt Novak

In The First Quiet Place 2 Trailer, Sound-Hunting Monsters May Be the Least of This Family’s Problems

It’s not just monsters they have to watch out for anymore. The first trailer has arrived for A Quiet Place Part II, the sequel to John Krasinski’s surprise horror hit, which sees Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) and her family venturing beyond their home and finding that sound-detecting creatures aren’t the only threat. Directed and co-written…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Marvel’s WandaVision Is Arriving Sooner Than Expected

Poop-Spotting Cameras Could Be This Robovac’s Secret Weapon

Chelsea Manning Responds After Top U.N. Official Labels Her Imprisonment ‘Torture’

Come Shaken, Not Stirred, to Our Spoiler-Laden Doctor Who Premiere Discussion Zone

I Am Hooked on Riverdale Cringe Videos

Music Streaming Jumped to 80 Percent of the U.S. Market by the End of the Decade

Start the New Year as You Mean to Go on With These Hot ‘Toss a Coin to Your Witcher’ Remixes

Director Mark Duplass on Room 104 and the Pleasures (and Pains) of Creative Constraint

All These New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Will Help Jump-Start Your New Year’s Resolution to Read More

FDA Is Reportedly Preparing to Ban Fruity E-Cigarette Pod Flavors

Forget the Baby Yoda, It’s the Werner Herzog Funko Pop I Want

ExxonMobil Wishes Australia a ‘Fun’ New Year as Country Burns in Climate Crisis

Weathering With You Is a Gorgeous, Earnest Romance That Can’t Quite Escape Your Name‘s Shadow

The MacBook Pro 16 Needs to Be the Future of Apple Laptops

All of io9’s 2019 Year in Review Lists in One Convenient Location

Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today

For My New Year’s Resolution, I’m Preparing a Climate Doomsday Kit

The Best Authenticator Apps for Protecting Your Accounts

Julian Assange Says He’s ‘Slowly Dying’ in Prison During Christmas Eve Phone Call: Report

In The First Quiet Place 2 Trailer, Sound-Hunting Monsters May Be the Least of This Family’s Problems

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