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Stranger Things and Arrival Producers Are Working on a Netflix Show About a Teenager With Superpowers

Think Family Circus meets American Horror Story: Coven. Netflix has ordered eight episodes of a new series based on Charles Forsman’s self-published graphic novel, I Am Not Okay With This, about a teenage girl who struggles to balance life, relationships, and her deadly telekinesis. In a press release, Netflix announced that playwright Christy Hall and…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Antarctic Scientists Are About to Drill Into One of the Most Isolated Lakes on Earth

Buried beneath 4,000 feet of Antarctic ice lies Lake Mercer, a subglacial body of water that formed thousands of years ago and has been long separated from the rest of the world. A project to explore this lake—and its mysterious contents—is finally set to begin later this month. Called Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access, or…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

The Biggest and Most Important Comic Book Crossover Is Coming to TV Next Year

The Arrowverse’s big three-part crossover ended last night and it was a lot of fun, but the last minute of the crossover was truly unprecedented. It contained the announcement of a sequel to the crossover in 2019, and its title: Crisis on Infinite Earths. If you missed our previous coverage of the crossover and you’ve…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

Pixar’s Mysterious ‘Suburban Fantasy Adventure’ Now Has a Title and Superhero Cast

Way back at last year’s D23 Expo, Pixar announced that its next film after Toy Story 4 would be “suburban fantasy adventure” with a personal touch. Well, now that movie has a title. It’s called Onward, and the voice cast is nothing short of heroic. Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Octavia Spencer are…

io9 Germain Lussier

Mary Poppins Returns Is Magical But It’s Missing Something

You’d be hard pressed to go into Mary Poppins Returns wanting to love it and not walk out that way. Director Rob Marshall, along with his stellar cast and crew, have beautifully rekindled the spirit of the original 1964 Disney film and infused it with new life, music, and technology. It’s a film brimming with…

Movies Germain Lussier

Google Finally Gives Up the Duck

Solidifying its powerful monopoly on duck-related online content, the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is now the proud owner of duck.com. The development comes after Google finally relented in an age-old dispute. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that draws on search results from hundreds of sources and doesn’t create profiles for user data and shows everyone…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Watch BBC’s Gorgeous Music Video for Doctor Who’s Thirteenth Doctor Theme

2018 was a year of change for Doctor Who. Not only did we get a showrunner shift and a brand-new Doctor, now played by Jodie Whittaker, but we also got the first new Doctor Who composer in over a decade. And now, not only is the music of Segun Akinola is getting an album release,…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Russian State TV Shows Off ‘Robot’ That’s Actually a Man in a Robot Suit

Russian state TV apparently became confused yesterday while airing footage of a technology forum aimed at kids. A TV reporter proclaimed that Boris the robot, seen above, “has already learned to dance and he’s not that bad.” The only problem? Boris isn’t a real robot. It’s just a man in a suit. This “robot” actually…

Tech News Matt Novak

Eye Worms, Octopuses on MDMA, and More: The Strangest Science Stories of 2018

Truly, 2018 has been a year filled with news that made us look blankly ahead and utter ‘wat’ into the void, frozen in confusion, every day. But there were a few stories that were cream of the crop when it came to their sheer weirdness. And that’s especially true within the world of science and…

Reviews Ed Cara

Here’s Your First Tiny Little Tease for The Punisher Season 2

Defenders may be falling all around him, but Frank Castle’s still standing—for now, at least. And we’ve got a little taste of him getting ready for action. Netflix has revealed the first minuscule glimpse at The Punisher season 2 as part of its batch of teasers for upcoming shows heading to the streaming service in…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Amazon’s DVR for Over-the-Air TV Is Surprisingly Great

The Amazon Fire TV Recast is a wacky gadget. It’s not wacky in that it looks weird. (It’s just a simple black box.) It’s also not wacky because it does wacky stuff. (It’s a DVR for over-the-air TV.) The Recast is wacky because it does this one hyper-specific thing really well. I’m not sure why…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Adam Clark Estes

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The Fossils of the 21st Century

In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve climate change backfired horribly. Or, more optimistically, we overcame the myriad challenges of the 21st century, took to the stars and evolved into new species on alien worlds. Either way, what…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users

Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real identities to their clients, and vice versa, and I was trying to figure out how. A sex worker using the pseudonym Leila told me she had gone to great lengths to hide her identity from…

Social Media Kashmir Hill

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Holiday Special Is More Somber Than Spooky

For anyone hoping that the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina holiday special would be a festive romp through the most terrifying delights of the season, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that we do get some great holiday frights, mostly centered around an Icelandic Christmas witch—and yes, dear old Krampus, too.…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Samsung Now ‘Re-Evaluating’ That Controversial Collab With the Fake Supreme

Remember two days ago when Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8s in China and trotted out the CEOs of the fake Supreme brand to announce a collaboration for future products? After much backlash from fans who love paying a premium for branded tchotchkes, Samsung wants you to know that it’s possibly, maybe, considering not pursuing that partnership…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

NASA’s InSight Lander Strikes a Confident Pose for Its First Martian Selfie

In the very first selfie taken by InSight, the NASA probe looks ready and rarin’ to go. This wonderful mosaic, which consists of 11 individual photos, shows the entire probe as it’s sitting pretty on the Martian surface. The photos were captured by the Instrument Deployment Camera on InSight’s robotic arm. The lander’s two solar…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

This Simple Video Game Shows You How to Sort Your Trash

How many of us are guilty of throwing compostable chopsticks in the garbage? Or food-soiled aluminum containers in the recycling? A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia has figured out just the way to help us get it right: a video game. Sort It Out is a very simple online game that…

Conservation Yessenia Funes

Birds of Prey Has Cast Another Intriguing Batman Villain

Stephen Lang teases where his Avatar villain is at going into the sequel. Alex Kurtzman discusses the tonal differences between Star Trek: Discovery and the new Picard series. Plus, new clips from Supernatural and Aquaman, and what to expect from the Duke Nukem movie. To me, my Spoilers! Birds of Prey (Or, the Fantabulous Emancipation…

Television James Whitbrook

Intel Just Gave Us a Glimpse at the Near Future of CPUs

Intel’s had a rough year, with major departures, security disasters, dwindling sales compared to its competitor, and the general appearance of a company trailing the competition technologically speaking. But in the twilight days of 2018 Intel’s laid out a plan of action to remind us all of exactly why Intel first crushed the competition to…

Tech News Alex Cranz

That Photo ‘Debunking’ the Paris Protest Fires is Actually Bullshit

Did you see the tweets supposedly “debunking” the huge fires that were burning during the protests in Paris? In reality, the “debunkers” are bullshit. The photos weren’t merely taken from different perspectives—they were taken on completely different days on completely different streets. First take a look at the the bullshit “debunkers” with sarcastic titles like…

Tech News Matt Novak

Stranger Things and Arrival Producers Are Working on a Netflix Show About a Teenager With Superpowers

Antarctic Scientists Are About to Drill Into One of the Most Isolated Lakes on Earth

The Biggest and Most Important Comic Book Crossover Is Coming to TV Next Year

Pixar’s Mysterious ‘Suburban Fantasy Adventure’ Now Has a Title and Superhero Cast