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Aquaman Has Already Made More Globally Than Justice League‘s Entire Run

You know that cliche about how no one is impressed with Aquaman? Well, it might be time to retire it, because people apparently love Aquaman. This week, Jason Momoa and James Wan’s Aquaman film passed a hell of a super milestone this week, passing the global total of Justice League at the box office. In…

Movies Julie Muncy

Marvel’s Official Website Adds an Interesting Wrinkle to Loki’s On-Screen Character Arc

Loveable, wonderful baby brother Loki. How bad a guy were you, really? Maybe not quite as bad as we thought, according to Marvel itself. Some eagle-eyed fans have spotted something interesting, on the official Marvel website: an interesting update to Loki’s on-screen bio that confirms a notable fan theory and, in the process, makes Loki…

Movies Julie Muncy

Tesla Names Two New Directors to Board as Part of SEC Settlement With Elon Musk

Tesla announced two new additions to its board on Friday: Kellogg alum Kathleen Wilson-Thompson and Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison, who has described himself as a close pal of Elon Musk. The two join the board as part of the settlement Tesla and Musk reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over…

Tech News Catie Keck

FTC Warns of Sketchy Netflix Phishing Scam Asking for Payment Details

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission tweeted Friday that consumers should be on the lookout for a phishing scam disguised as a routine email from streaming giant Netflix that appears to have been making the rounds for months. FTC Consumer Education Specialist Colleen Tressler surfaced the scam in a blog post on Wednesday with a screenshot…

Tech News Catie Keck

Mark Zuckerberg: Everything Is Fine, Actually

Mark Zuckerberg appears to be taking the “this is fine” route on the way out of what was arguably the worst year in his company’s decade-plus history. In a lengthy year-in-review post on Facebook, Zuckerberg began by writing that his “personal challenge has been to focus on addressing some of the most important issues facing…

Social Media Catie Keck

Report to the Bridge for Your Crash Course in The Orville Ahead of the Season 2 Premiere

It’s been over a year since the first-season finale of The Orville, and while the sci-fi comedy doesn’t require a lot of backstory to enjoy, we still thought it’d be worth whipping together a primer so you can hit the ground running (and catch onto any inside jokes) ahead of Sunday’s season two premiere. What…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Twitter Hackers Hijack New Accounts After Company Claims It Fixed Bug

Twitter is claiming to have resolved a bug that allowed a group of London-based security researchers to post unauthorized tweets to the accounts of British celebrities and journalists. But the hackers who initially disclosed the vulnerability says that’s rubbish. A Twitter spokesperson told reporters on Friday that it had “resolved a bug that allowed certain…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Google is Reportedly Rolling Out a Feature to Fight Spam in Your Texts

Everyone hates spam texts, but only some Android users are reporting they’re seeing alerts about a new spam protection feature from Google in their Messages app. According to Android Police, the update seems to be a limited rollout as it isn’t live on every single device yet. Those who do have the feature report seeing…

Tech News Victoria Song

Bad Plumbing Helped Cause a Strange Outbreak of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at a Maryland Hospital

In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center, the U.S. government’s most prominent research hospital, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients were somehow being sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria that practically never causes disease in humans. Two years later, a new study seems to finally have confirmed where this…

Health Ed Cara

Report: Scientists in China Are Losing Track of Gene-Edited CRISPR Patients

Gene therapies are very much at their preliminary stages of development, so it would make sense to keep tabs on patients whose DNA has been modified via the innovative CRISPR technique. For some scientists in China, however, this is apparently not a priority. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that an undisclosed number of Chinese…

Biology George Dvorsky

Director Sophia Takal Talks Blumhouse and Her Episode of Hulu’s Horror Anthology Into the Dark

The Hulu-Blumhouse holiday horror anthology series Into the Dark returns today with a new episode in honor of New Year’s Eve, a searing takedown of social media, toxic friendships, and wellness culture titled “New Year, New You.” It’s a suspenseful entry with an all-female cast, directed by Sophia Takal. Those who’ve been following Blumhouse news…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

‘Not the Leadership This Moment Calls For’: Progressives Blast Nancy Pelosi’s New ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee

In one of the clearest signs yet that House Democrats might try doing something, anything at all, about climate change come January, incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that Congress would be establishing a new “Climate Crisis” committee, to be chaired by Florida Representative Kathy Castor. “This committee will be critical to the entire Congress’s…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

That New Black Mirror Interactive Film From Netflix Doesn’t Work on Apple TV

If you were were hoping to enjoy that new Black Mirror movie Bandersnatch on your fancy Apple TV, then apologies. You can’t. First reported by MacRumors, we’ve confirmed that attempting to watch the interactive flick on an Apple TV (we tested it with the newer, 4k version) results in a supercut of Black Mirror characters…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Runaways‘ Creators Discuss the Team’s Evolution and the Importance of Found Families

The teen heroes of Hulu’s Runaways spent an entire season working up the nerve to put their money where the show’s mouth is and actually run away. But the time that was put into actually fleshing out their characters was something the show’s co-creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage wanted to take in order to…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Trump’s EPA Wants to Prove That Limiting Toxic Mercury Emissions Is a Giant Waste of Money

The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to regulate mercury spewing out of coal-fired power plants, but it’s proposed to revise the legal finding that supports that regulation in the first place, according to an announcement it released Friday. Whispers that the EPA began might roll back the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), which former…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Dozens of Stranded Sea Turtles Rescued After Indonesian Tsunami

Volunteer rescuers working on beaches along Sundra Strait have rescued more than 30 stranded sea turtles, following the Indonesian tsunami that has killed hundreds of people, the Guardian reports. On December 22, Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau island volcano triggered a massive landslide, generating a tsunami that killed at least 430 people. With nearly 160 people still…

Biology George Dvorsky

How Hawaii’s Volcanoes Could Help Us Find Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon

Kilauea’s historically huge 2018 eruption didn’t just transform the southeastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island. Most of the lava wound up spilling into the ocean, creating an enormous new undersea delta that hardy ocean microbes are already colonizing. That finding, along with the broader exploratory campaign that made it possible, might inform the search for…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Here’s Why the Sky Glowed a Freaky Blue During Last Night’s Electrical Incident in NYC

You’ve surely heard about Thursday’s incident at a Con Edison substation in New York City that temporarily knocked out power at LaGuardia airport and set the night skies glowing with an eerie aquamarine. We wondered: What made it so BLUE? Con Ed initially tweeted a laughably understated comment to describe the enormous explosion seen by…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

All the Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2018

As the end of 2018 approaches, it’s time to look back and bid a fond farewell to the actors, artists, authors, and other real people who’ve shuffled off this mortal coil. All of these folks have one thing in common: They inspired us, whether it was with one specific performance on a favorite sci-fi TV…

io9 io9 Staff

Widespread 911 Outage Sparks FCC Investigation Into CenturyLink

A CenturyLink outage that started on Thursday has left customers across the country without internet and shut down vital services including 911 emergency calls. And now the federal government is launching an investigation. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced on Twitter on Friday morning that he’s instructed the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security…

Tech News Victoria Song

Aquaman Has Already Made More Globally Than Justice League‘s Entire Run

Marvel’s Official Website Adds an Interesting Wrinkle to Loki’s On-Screen Character Arc

Tesla Names Two New Directors to Board as Part of SEC Settlement With Elon Musk

FTC Warns of Sketchy Netflix Phishing Scam Asking for Payment Details

Mark Zuckerberg: Everything Is Fine, Actually

Report to the Bridge for Your Crash Course in The Orville Ahead of the Season 2 Premiere

Twitter Hackers Hijack New Accounts After Company Claims It Fixed Bug

Google is Reportedly Rolling Out a Feature to Fight Spam in Your Texts

Bad Plumbing Helped Cause a Strange Outbreak of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at a Maryland Hospital

Report: Scientists in China Are Losing Track of Gene-Edited CRISPR Patients

Director Sophia Takal Talks Blumhouse and Her Episode of Hulu’s Horror Anthology Into the Dark

‘Not the Leadership This Moment Calls For’: Progressives Blast Nancy Pelosi’s New ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee

That New Black Mirror Interactive Film From Netflix Doesn’t Work on Apple TV

Runaways‘ Creators Discuss the Team’s Evolution and the Importance of Found Families

Trump’s EPA Wants to Prove That Limiting Toxic Mercury Emissions Is a Giant Waste of Money

Dozens of Stranded Sea Turtles Rescued After Indonesian Tsunami

How Hawaii’s Volcanoes Could Help Us Find Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon

Here’s Why the Sky Glowed a Freaky Blue During Last Night’s Electrical Incident in NYC

All the Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2018

Widespread 911 Outage Sparks FCC Investigation Into CenturyLink

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