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Dark Horse’s Upcoming Alien Comics Will Take Up the Story of Ripley’s Daughter

Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen, is back. Amanda occupies a strange, interesting little piece of the Alien canon. First mentioned in a cutscene from Aliens, Amanda was made the star of the original story of Alien: Isolation, the seminal 2014 video game that wove Ripley’s daughter into her mom’s xenomorph shenanigans. Now, after that…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

This YouTuber Argues That The Matrix Sequels Are Better Than You Remember

And he’s right, gosh dangit. I am a partisan for one issue, and one issue only: The Matrix Reloaded is a good movie. Maybe not a great movie, but an incredibly watchable and fun one, with a lot more interesting ideas baked into its runtime than just about anyone has given it credit for. So…

Movies Julie Muncy

Hundreds Confirmed Dead in Indonesian Tsunami, With Officials Warning Toll Will Rise [Updated]

The 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday is confirmed to have killed hundreds of people, the New York Times reported on Saturday, with at least 405 confirmed deaths in the city of Palu and the toll likely to rise much higher as search-and-rescue teams continue to…

Earth Science Tom McKay

Elon Musk to Resign as Tesla Chairman, Pay $20 Million Fine in SEC Settlement Over Catastrophic ‘420’ Tweet

In August, Tesla CEO Elon Musk set off an entirely preventable and catastrophic chain of events by tweeting that he was “considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” Musk provided no financing details, and the Securities and Exchange Commission later determined that he never finalized any kind of deal with the Saudi sovereign wealth…

Tech News Tom McKay

These Fans Take Their Stormbreaker Replica Very Seriously

Thor’s lightning-wielding, Thanos-threatening axe is quite a weapon. And these fans take the process of making it reality very seriously. The creators at The Hacksmith, in their Make It Real series, go beyond cosplay weapons and build detailed, real-life replica. Cool stuff, in other words. Now, they’re taking on Thor’s Stormbreaker from Avengers: Infinity War,…

Movies Julie Muncy

Facebook Reportedly Defeats Government Demand to Wiretap Messenger Calls

A joint federal-state task force tracking the MS-13 gang tried and failed to force Facebook to help it wiretap calls made through its Messenger app, Reuters reported on Friday, even launching an unsuccessful attempt to hold the social media titan in contempt of court for refusing to do so. Reuters reported that a federal judge…

Social Media Tom McKay

This X-Men Fan Trailer Swaps Out One Phoenix Movie for Another

Time is a flat circle, and the Phoenix Force never dies. Dark Phoenix is set on tackling the classic X-Men storyline that sees Jean Grey merge with the Phoenix Force, but it won’t be the first time that story has appeared on screen. It also appeared in the much-maligned X-Men: The Last Stand, which was,…

Movies Julie Muncy

Tessa Thompson Confirms Valkyrie’s Post-Infinity War Fate

Marvel might make an Avenger out of her yet. Rumors about the fate of Valkyrie, Tessa Thompson’s hard-drinking, hard-fighting Asgardian from Thor: Ragnarok, have been floating around since her absence in Avengers: Infinity War. Now, Thompson herself has confirmed on Twitter that Valkyrie is alive, and well, and probably ready to kick your ass. This…

Movies Julie Muncy

David Cronenberg Explains Why He Didn’t Direct Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was famously shopped around to some well-respected directors before landing in Richard Marquand’s hands. One of those was David Cronenberg, and recently he shed some more light on why, precisely, he didn’t get the job. Talking with Entertainment Weekly, Cronenberg reminisced on the circumstances that led him to not…

Movies Julie Muncy

Is the FBI’s Fitness App a Cop?

Getting into the FBI is not easy, as the agency’s new “Do you have what it takes?” fitness app will happily tell you. The app, which was released in August 2018, walks users through the five legs of the fitness requirements former director James Comey re-implemented in 2015—daring them to achieve high scores on sit-ups,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Remember How Bad Android Was?

Over the last week or so, bloggers have been posting warm and fuzzy reflections about Android because we’ve just passed the 10th anniversary of the reveal of the T-Mobile G1, (AKA the HTC Dream, or colloquially the “G phone”), the platform’s first commercial device. Many folks—including this here blogger—had basically the same idea: Get your…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Danny McBride Wrote for Halloween‘s Villain, But Was Too Scared to Meet Him

Michael Myers is an intimidating guy. That big, hulking visage. The creepy mask. For fans of the horror franchise, and even people who just see that look, he’s the stuff nightmares are made of. Even, it turns out, if you’re Danny McBride, the actor and writer who along with David Gordon Green and Jeff Fradley…

Movies Julie Muncy

How Quantum Memory Could Change Computing

In a hot tub in 2012, physicist Seth Lloyd pitched a quantum internet application to Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page. He called it Quoogle: a search engine that, using mathematics based on the physics of subatomic particles, returns results without ever actually knowing the query. Such an advance would require an entirely new kind…

Human History Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Old Man Aragorn, Out on One Last Hunt

What, you thought that after his coronation, the legendary Strider himself would give up on the occasional hunt? This amazing imagining of an elder Elessar comes courtesy of Adam Middleton, a lead concept designer at Weta Workshop based in Wellington, New Zealand. Middleton came up with the idea for the image—described as depicting a post-Return…

Movies James Whitbrook

All of io9’s Fantastic Fest 2018 Coverage in One Handy Place

io9’s Germain Lussier spent the last week in Austin, Texas, feasting his eyeballs on Fantastic Fest’s rich, grisly bounty of genre movies. He didn’t love everything he saw, but he found quite a few winners. Read on for all of his reviews—and then add the best titles to your own “must-watch” list. First, here’s what…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Gary and His Demons Is a Brilliant Show About How Awful Being the ‘Chosen One’ Is

Into every generation in the world of VRV’s Gary and His Demons, a demon slayer is born who—well, is responsible for ridding the world of its demons. But as much fun as being a chosen slayer might sound, Gary rightfully hates his calling. Gary and His Demons is an animated show that’s equal parts Buffy…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Jodie Whittaker’s Looking for a Doctor in the Electrifying First Clip from Doctor Who‘s New Season

You wouldn’t happen to know one, would you? The BBC have just released the first extended clip from Doctor Who season 11’s premiere episode, “The Woman Who Fell to Earth.” While it’s not a perfect indicator of what Whittaker’s 13th incarnation of the Doctor is going to be like—she’s still in a post-regeneration haze, unsure…

io9 James Whitbrook

Facebook’s Already Getting Sued for Data Breach Affecting 50 Million Profiles

Earlier today, Facebook announced to the public that a series of vulnerabilities had allowed hackers access to an estimated 50 million user profiles. The company now faces its first class-action lawsuit over its apparent inability to protect this data, likely the first of many such suits to come if the legal fallout after the Cambridge…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Good Robots, Dead Robots, and an Excellent Princess Leia Are Among the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest merchandise we’ve seen on the internet. This week: RIP Optimus Prime! Plus, a very good Princess Leia, Wolverine goes ronin, Overwatch’s divine robot monk gets the figure he deserves, and much more. Check it out! Hot Toys Sixth-Scale The Empire Strikes Back Bespin…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

A Plagiarist Lies His Way Into a Job and Everyone’s Afraid of Girls in This Week’s Best New Comics

This week’s comics feature characters whose ideas about what kind of people they are directly contrasts with the way the world sees them. In their deepest hearts, they do know who their true selves are—but they all struggle all day, every day with being truly understood by others. Faith Dreamland Stepping into her identity as…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Dark Horse’s Upcoming Alien Comics Will Take Up the Story of Ripley’s Daughter

This YouTuber Argues That The Matrix Sequels Are Better Than You Remember

Hundreds Confirmed Dead in Indonesian Tsunami, With Officials Warning Toll Will Rise [Updated]

Elon Musk to Resign as Tesla Chairman, Pay $20 Million Fine in SEC Settlement Over Catastrophic ‘420’ Tweet

These Fans Take Their Stormbreaker Replica Very Seriously

Facebook Reportedly Defeats Government Demand to Wiretap Messenger Calls

This X-Men Fan Trailer Swaps Out One Phoenix Movie for Another

Tessa Thompson Confirms Valkyrie’s Post-Infinity War Fate

David Cronenberg Explains Why He Didn’t Direct Return of the Jedi

Is the FBI’s Fitness App a Cop?

Remember How Bad Android Was?

Danny McBride Wrote for Halloween‘s Villain, But Was Too Scared to Meet Him

How Quantum Memory Could Change Computing

Old Man Aragorn, Out on One Last Hunt

All of io9’s Fantastic Fest 2018 Coverage in One Handy Place

Gary and His Demons Is a Brilliant Show About How Awful Being the ‘Chosen One’ Is

Jodie Whittaker’s Looking for a Doctor in the Electrifying First Clip from Doctor Who‘s New Season

Facebook’s Already Getting Sued for Data Breach Affecting 50 Million Profiles

Good Robots, Dead Robots, and an Excellent Princess Leia Are Among the Best Toys of the Week

A Plagiarist Lies His Way Into a Job and Everyone’s Afraid of Girls in This Week’s Best New Comics

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