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In Free Guy‘s First Trailer, Ryan Reynolds is the Only Dude for the Job

What if you were able to break the boundaries of the role society placed you in? And what if you were, also, literally, a video game character? And what if you were also played by Ryan Reynolds in a new motion picture? Wait. Hang on. This metaphor has fallen apart. Let me try again: In…

Trailers Julie Muncy

Peter Sarsgaard Has Been Cast in The Batman in an Unknown Role

Though fans have a guess… or two. Matt Reeves made Bat-waves yesterday when he posted a simple tweet. Only three words, and one gif. The words? “Oh… Hi, Peter…” Oh, and there was also a Bat emoji. That part is pretty important. That’s right, it appears Sarsgaard is next in line to join the frankly…

Movies Julie Muncy

Amazon Drags Its Sorry Ass to NYC Anyway, No Tax Dollars Required

After all the histrionics over Amazon ditching plans to build its HQ2 facility in Long Island City, Amazon’s still set on worming its way into the Big Apple because it simply cannot take a hint when it’s not wanted. This week, the online retail giant signed a lease for 335,000 square feet of office space…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

The Quiet Joys of ASMR Porn

I am watching a video of the outward crevice of a human’s large intestine. The cavity, exposed in the cold light of day, is isolated from the owner’s body; it pulsates to what sounds like wet dog food squishing in the palm of a hand. It is, at turns, grotesque, then abstract, suggestive of the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

In the Biggest Trailer Yet, Crisis on Infinite Earths Is Looking Grim

“The multiverse needs you!” Yeah, because things are not going well. In the latest trailer for CW’s big, almost-here Crisis on Infinite Earths, everyone is on the brink of despair. Supergirl is mourning her failures; heroes from other universes are warning of the coming disaster; and other Earths are blinking out, one by one. It’s…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Forget Satan, Have You Met Evil‘s Most Evil Character?

CBS’s Evil has become one of this fall’s most pleasant surprises—if you can apply “pleasant” to a show that examines the very worst of humanity: serial killers, child murderers, racist doctors, people who produce fake “ghost hunter” TV shows, etc. But the worst of the worst prize goes to one character: Leland Townsend. Tweedy and…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Away Warns Employees Not to ‘Like’ or ‘Fave’ Article Detailing Execs’ Psycho Behavior

If we’ve learned nothing else this year, it’s that behind every breezy inspirational lifestyle brand advertising vast sunny horizons lurks a demon tyrant draining the sweat and blood of Millennial urbanites slaving day and night in the miserable dungeons of Slack. This is to say that it’s been a whirlwind 24 hours since The Verge’s…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

The Boys’ First Season 2 Trailer Is a Bloodsoaked Return to Anarchy

What do blood, breast milk, and hard liquor all have in common?

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Start Forging Your Own Beskar’gam, and More of the Most Metal Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the best things we’ve seen on the internet this week that aren’t Baby Yoda, because we’ve already blogged those. This week, Hot Toys finds another Spider-Man costume to gorgeously replicate, Lego adds to its line of modular buildings, and at last there’s a helmet fit…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Jury Rules You Can Call Elon Musk a Pedo Guy

It took a federal jury in Los Angeles less than an hour to throw out a $190 million defamation case against Elon Musk. Calling someone a “pedo guy” to an audience of millions of Twitter followers isn’t an accusation, the jury decided, because words are tricky little devils that can mean a lot of things…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

I Want That on a T-Shirt

Artists on Twitter say that their work is regularly stolen by armies of bots that generate t-shirts from popular designs—and they’ve got the receipts to prove it. Here’s the scam: Bots linked to popular t-shirt sales platforms appear to be crawling Twitter for replies to artists that mention phrases like “I want that on a…

Tech News Tom McKay

Reducing Air Pollution Saves Lives in Just Weeks, Report Finds

Cleaner air can go a long way in saving lives, according to a new report out Friday. It found that policies and laws aimed at curbing emissions are often linked to reductions in hospitalizations, premature births, and deaths in just a few weeks after their enactment. The review looked at past studies that evaluated major…

Health Ed Cara

The Expanse Season 4 Is About the ‘Limits of Control’

If there was one thing the end of The Expanse season three left you feeling—other than sadness at its temporary end (before Amazon’s revival)—it was “possibility.” The Ring had opened up hundreds of new worlds and it seemed like a new way of life was within everyone’s reach. Beltalowda! A time to finally take control…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Samsung Reportedly Has Some Major Camera Upgrades Planned for the Galaxy S11

Almost a year ago, Samsung acquired mobile camera developer Corephotonics, and now, if reports are true, Samsung might finally be ready to add some of the company’s fancy new photography tech on the upcoming Galaxy S11. According to a story from Bloomberg, in addition to a super high-res 108-MP sensor, the Galaxy S11 will get…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

The President Has Toilet Problems

President Donald J. Trump is having some toilet trouble—extremely normal toilet trouble that happens to all of us on a regular basis. Like how we sometimes have to flush 10-15 times before it all goes down, and that is totally due to wacko liberals demanding environmentally friendly toilets. At a roundtable at the White House…

Conservation Tom McKay

Piglets Born With Monkey Cells Are a World First

Scientists in China created piglets whose organs contained some monkey cells. The piglets all died within a week, illustrating the challenges ahead as researchers work toward the goal of growing human organs inside other animals. These pig-monkey chimeras are a scientific first, but to be clear, we’re not talking about some kind of dystopian half-pig,…

Tech News George Dvorsky

A Song Just for You

A phantom visited my voicemail this week— three minutes and fifteen seconds of hold music for a conversation no one initiated. Now I’m sharing it with you. These days, consumer technology mostly works as expected. My laptop boots up, the link points to the right webpage, and the webpage loads a video of people cooking…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Why Won’t Steam Approve These Games Supporting Hong Kong Protestors?

Last year Valve proclaimed that it would allow virtually any game on its Steam service, so long as the game wasn’t illegal or “straight up trolling”—but activist-minded developers who have made games about the Hong Kong protests have realized that, perhaps, there are other ways to get barred from the gaming platform. Two developers recently…

Tech News Jennings Brown

FCC Finds Wireless Carriers Wildly Overstate Coverage, Gives Them More Money Anyway

On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission, the ghoulish specter of a disemboweled regulatory body, for a fleeting moment appeared before a House oversight committee as shadow of its former self. It produced: a report! The result of a year-long investigation, FCC field agents exposed mobile carriers’ sham claims of providing coverage to underserved areas; the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

There Was Almost a Version of Netflix’s Witcher Where Ciri Was the Lead Star

The nature of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher books being more focused on a collection of time-strewn short stories than it is actual linear novels makes the particular trial of adapting them for television a struggle. It was one Lauren Schmidt Hissrich wrangled with when she helped bring Geralt to life for Netflix—but we almost got a…

io9 James Whitbrook

In Free Guy‘s First Trailer, Ryan Reynolds is the Only Dude for the Job

Peter Sarsgaard Has Been Cast in The Batman in an Unknown Role

Amazon Drags Its Sorry Ass to NYC Anyway, No Tax Dollars Required

The Quiet Joys of ASMR Porn

In the Biggest Trailer Yet, Crisis on Infinite Earths Is Looking Grim

Forget Satan, Have You Met Evil‘s Most Evil Character?

Away Warns Employees Not to ‘Like’ or ‘Fave’ Article Detailing Execs’ Psycho Behavior

The Boys’ First Season 2 Trailer Is a Bloodsoaked Return to Anarchy

Start Forging Your Own Beskar’gam, and More of the Most Metal Toys of the Week

Jury Rules You Can Call Elon Musk a Pedo Guy

I Want That on a T-Shirt

Reducing Air Pollution Saves Lives in Just Weeks, Report Finds

The Expanse Season 4 Is About the ‘Limits of Control’

Samsung Reportedly Has Some Major Camera Upgrades Planned for the Galaxy S11

The President Has Toilet Problems

Piglets Born With Monkey Cells Are a World First

A Song Just for You

Why Won’t Steam Approve These Games Supporting Hong Kong Protestors?

FCC Finds Wireless Carriers Wildly Overstate Coverage, Gives Them More Money Anyway

There Was Almost a Version of Netflix’s Witcher Where Ciri Was the Lead Star

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