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Purported Leaked Pixel 4 Demos Show Off Improved Google Assistant

As the self-appointed “friend who looks everything up,” I’m open to any app or update that might make my constant fact-checking less of a production. With the “new Google Assistant” on the Pixel 4, issuing a command or query may become as simple as raising your phone and asking away. That’s according to a slew…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon

Jamie McKelvie is one of those guys. Your favorite comics artist’s favorite comics artist, a status cemented by the just-ended five-year marathon spent as the draftsman on award-winning pop music super-drama The Wicked + The Divine. For his next trick, he’s going full cartoonist, writing and drawing an all-new sci-fi series and he told io9…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

Picard Is Coming This January, Here’s Yet Another Fabulous Trailer

Our favorite captain returns in winter. As just revealed at the New York Comic Con Star Trek panel, Picard now has a release date and another thrilling, nostalgia-stoking new trailer. Years after his time at Starfleet, Picard is back in action, older, sadder, and probably even more impossibly wise. The new trailer expands on the…

Trailers Julie Muncy

Lost in Space Has Found a Second Season in the Stars, Here’s the Teaser Trailer

“I won’t leave without him.” Danger, danger, Will Robinson—you’ve got a friend to save. Netflix’s Lost in Space is returning for a second season, and this time all eyes are on the Robinson family’s most iconic member, Robot. As the season begins, the Robinsons are stranded in even more dire circumstances than before, and Robot…

Trailers Julie Muncy

Six Elephants Die in Thailand Trying to Rescue Each Other From Waterfall

At least six wild Asian elephants died in southern Thailand’s Khao Yai National Park after trying to save each other from a waterfall, Reuters reported on Saturday. According to the BBC, the incident began when a baby elephant fell into the waterfall, which is known as Haew Narok (Hell’s Fall) and in 1992 was the…

Biology Tom McKay

The First Trailer for Star Trek: Discovery‘s Third Season Sets Course for a New Future

The climax of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season was explosive in more ways than one: Michael Burnham, the Discovery, and her crew were catapulted into a future so far beyond anything previously seen in a Trek TV show. Now, we’ve finally got a solid glimpse at what that brave new universe looks like. Turns out,…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Lauren Cohan Is Coming Back to The Walking Dead, Which Is Being Renewed for Season 11

During this year’s New York Comic Con, the cast of The Walking Dead took to the stage in Madison Square Garden to discuss what’s next for the show as it heads into its tenth season. For the most part, the cast was mum about specific spoilers, but just as the panel was coming to an…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Walking Dead‘s Youthful New Spin-off Looks Surprisingly Fun in First Trailer

While The Walking Dead’s second spin-off doesn’t have a title yet, that didn’t stop the cast from coming to New York Comic Con to discuss the series on a panel that, surprisingly, opened with a rather interesting trailer that’s just made its way online. Set 10 years after the beginning of The Walking Dead’s apocalypse,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

The CW’s Batwoman Has a New Enemy, and It’s Rachel Maddow

In what some are calling the greatest lesbian crossover event of all time, the superhero world’s most prominent lesbian, Batwoman, is about to find a new foe in the most prominent lesbian of prime time news. That’s right, Rachel Maddow is coming to Batwoman. As the Hollywood Reporter explains, Maddow, MSNBC news host, will be…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Apple Offers Repairs for Busted iPhone 6s Models So Long As It’s Their Fault

If you’re an Apple user who’s still rocking an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus and it suddenly started refusing to turn on, don’t worry: It’s Apple’s fault, not yours. Apple blamed the issue on a component failure in a Friday blog post announcing a new repair program for the devices: “Apple has determined that certain…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

PayPal Drops Support for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Scheme

A few days after the Wall Street Journal reported that a few corporate supporters of Facebook’s cryptocurrency were considering bowing out of its so-called “crypto mafia”, PayPal became the first to do so Friday, announcing that it will no longer participate in the Libra Association. “PayPal has made the decision to forgo further participation in…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Hasbro’s New Darth Vader Figure Is Most Impressive, and Most Frustrating

Hasbro has been making awesome Star Wars action figures for decades at this point. But it’s kicking off a new range of figures in the galaxy far, far away called “Hyperreal” that are something totally new for the toymaker. It’s definitely filled with new surprises…both great and not so great. If the last time you…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook

The Best Toys of the Week Are All Nostalgic Blasts From the Past

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s round up of the latest and greatest bits of plastic siphoning money from our cash reserves. This week, we’ve got a mothertrucking great Optimus Prime, Playmobil gets even more retro with Back to the Future, and Mexo’s latest DC Marvel is a throwback to Wonder Woman’s wonderful past. Check…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

For Your Convenience, a Joker Spoiler Discussion Zone

Everyone has been talking about Todd Phillips’ Joker for so long it feels like it’s been out for weeks. As you know though, that’s not the case. It finally opened this week, and now everyone has an opportunity to weigh in on one of the most anticipated, scrutinized, and controversial films in recent memory. We…

Movies Germain Lussier

House of X Ends With a New Hope for the X-Men, and New Fears

So much of Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, Clayton Cowles, and Tom Muller’s work on House of X has been laden with a sense of alien, haunting dread. While some of that lingers in what its final issue lays out, it mostly invites us and mutantkind to consider an alternate: perchance to hope for…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Nearly 25 Percent of Your Cable Bill Is Bullshit Fees, Survey Finds

A new survey has found that an exorbitant number of cable customers may be paying their TV providers hefty hidden fees amounting to hundreds of dollars annually. A cable bill survey of 2,057 U.S. adults in 2018 by Consumer Reports found that a staggering 85 percent have encountered surprise or hidden fees—especially non-government imposed fees…

Tech News Catie Keck

An Inspector Gadget Reboot Is in the Works From Disney and a Pair of SNL Writers

Go-go-Gadget remake! Disney is working on a new live-action version of the popular 1980s cartoon Inspector Gadget, with Aladdin producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich on board along with Saturday Night Live writers Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, who’ll tackle the script. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. Besides the excellent cartoon that children of…

Movies Germain Lussier

‘Outrage’: New Video Shows Bulldozers Destroying America’s Most Iconic Cacti to Build Trump’s Border Wall

The Trump administration has run roughshod over environmental laws in a rush to build an unnecessary border wall. And in footage that emerged on Friday, construction efforts are just running roughshod over the environment, period. One of the first stretches of the Trumpified wall is going up in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (yes, they…

Conservation Brian Kahn

So Many Goddamn Star Wars Books and Comics Just Got Announced at New York Comic Con

The Skywalker Saga might be coming to an end on the big screen this December, but at New York Comic Con today, the galaxy far, far away seemed more alive than ever. That is, if you need a hefty to-read pile to build up. The Lucasfilm Publishing panel at NYCC didn’t just start off with…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Sleeper Hit? Not Quite, as Bose Discontinues Its $250 Sleepbuds

After just over a year on the market, Bose has now discontinued its $250 Sleepbuds, citing issues with the product’s built-in batteries and faulty charging. Before discontinuing the Sleepbuds, Bose attempted to address user complaints through a series of software and firmware updates. However, when issues persisted, Bose finally made the decision to discontinue the…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Purported Leaked Pixel 4 Demos Show Off Improved Google Assistant

The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon

Picard Is Coming This January, Here’s Yet Another Fabulous Trailer

Lost in Space Has Found a Second Season in the Stars, Here’s the Teaser Trailer

Six Elephants Die in Thailand Trying to Rescue Each Other From Waterfall

The First Trailer for Star Trek: Discovery‘s Third Season Sets Course for a New Future

Lauren Cohan Is Coming Back to The Walking Dead, Which Is Being Renewed for Season 11

The Walking Dead‘s Youthful New Spin-off Looks Surprisingly Fun in First Trailer

The CW’s Batwoman Has a New Enemy, and It’s Rachel Maddow

Apple Offers Repairs for Busted iPhone 6s Models So Long As It’s Their Fault

PayPal Drops Support for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Scheme

Hasbro’s New Darth Vader Figure Is Most Impressive, and Most Frustrating

The Best Toys of the Week Are All Nostalgic Blasts From the Past

For Your Convenience, a Joker Spoiler Discussion Zone

House of X Ends With a New Hope for the X-Men, and New Fears

Nearly 25 Percent of Your Cable Bill Is Bullshit Fees, Survey Finds

An Inspector Gadget Reboot Is in the Works From Disney and a Pair of SNL Writers

‘Outrage’: New Video Shows Bulldozers Destroying America’s Most Iconic Cacti to Build Trump’s Border Wall

So Many Goddamn Star Wars Books and Comics Just Got Announced at New York Comic Con

Sleeper Hit? Not Quite, as Bose Discontinues Its $250 Sleepbuds

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