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What the New Live-Action Star Wars Show Should Learn From Star Wars Rebels

The last few years have been very good for Star Wars fans. There are new movies, an amazing TV show, books, comics, the works. Then things got even better with yesterday’s announcement of another trilogy of movies and, finally, a live-action TV show. A live-action Star Wars TV show is something that has been in…

Television Germain Lussier

Tribes Across the Midwest Are Gearing up for a Big New Pipeline Battle

The sun was still hiding Wednesday morning, November 8, when about 15 individuals woke up to leave Camp Makwa on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. The time was 3 a.m., and this time of year, temperatures can drop real low, like 20 degrees Fahrenheit. That didn’t stop this group, though. They…

Earther Yessenia Funes

Researchers Find Grasshopper Stuck in Classic Van Gogh Painting

A famous work of art has captured more than just van Gogh’s impressions—it’s preserving a hundred-year-old grasshopper corpse, too. Researchers spotted the critter while taking a closer look at over a hundred paintings at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. This probably beats burial or burning at a pyre, as far as funeral rites…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

In Daredevil, a Trumpian Wilson Fisk Has Become Mayor of New York City

We joke about Donald Trump being a comics supervillain brought to life, but he isn’t at all the calculated sort of mastermind one has to be to take on superheroes. That doesn’t mean, though, that proper superavillains like the Kingpin couldn’t stand to learn a thing or two from Trump. Donald Trump and Wilson Fisk…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

We’re the Staff of io9, Let’s Chat

It’s Friday, it finally feels like fall, so we’re opening this up to questions. Ask us anything! Edit, 4:30: Over, thanks for stopping by.

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All the Reasons Why The Exorcist‘s Second Season Is Even Scarier Than the First

We’ve reached the midpoint of The Exorcist’s second season—episode five airs tonight—which means the story is well underway but there are still plenty of mysteries left to reveal. Last season was excellently spooky, but this season has been even scarier in the best sort of way. Here are three big reasons why. The new setting…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Paradise Papers Investigation Shows StubHub Rewarding Large-Scale Scalpers

In the most recent case of financial intrigue bubbling up following the leak of the Paradise Papers, an investigation by the CBC and the Toronto Star uncovered evidence of a multi-million dollar ticket scalping operation that StubHub not only permits but incentivizes. And now the ticket reselling platform’s offices have been raided by authorities. News…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Heartbreaking Detail You Might’ve Missed in Stranger Things 2

Stranger Things might be known for its Easter eggs designed for children of the 1980s, but the most interesting, significant, and impactful one of the second season has nothing to do with nostalgia, but rather its own story. Throughout the first and second seasons of Stranger Things, we see Chief Hopper donning a blue bracelet.…

Television Beth Elderkin

Aborting a Launch of NASA’S Orion Capsule Sounds Absolutely Horrifying

NASA is currently developing a space capsule, called Orion, that will eventually carry a crew of four astronauts to Low Earth Orbit and beyond. Should something go catastrophically wrong during launch, an abort system will work to save the lives of the astronauts—but whoa, would they ever be in for a hell of a ride.…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Redditors Say Sex Toy App Was Secretly Recording Them

Few things sow distrust faster than speculation that apps and internet-connected devices are surveilling their own users in secret. Facebook mining your browsing habits to serve ads is one thing. But what if you found out your sex toy was taping you? That’s what Redditors on the community r/sex claimed they discovered yesterday, when a…

Tech News Avery Ellis

We Need to Talk About Industry Funded Nutrition Science

Evidence is great—there’s nothing quite like a science study to help prove your point. But one thing frequently left out when presenting that evidence, especially in the news coverage surrounding it, is industry funding. Industry funding and its potential cause for bias is something we need to speak about in the age of viral and…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Warner Bros Should Turn the Deathstroke Comic Into Its Next TV Show

Two weeks ago, news broke that The Raid director Gareth Evans would possibly be heading up a Deathstroke film project for Warner Bros. Pairing a superhuman assassin with the guy who made a movie full of close-quarters combat set pieces seems like a match made in heaven, right? But, really, Deathstroke is the perfect character…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

Google Street View Has Reached the Tiny Faroe Islands Thanks to Sheep

The Faroe Islands are a sparsely-inhabited archipelago in the North Atlantic. Until last week, their remoteness gave them the distinction of being one of the few spots in the developed world not captured on Google Street View. But now, thanks to the islands’ roaming sheep, the remote roads, towns, cliffs and waterfalls are available for…

Earther Brian Kahn

Report: Marvel and Fox Are Still Considering the Acquisition Deal That Would Bring Characters Back to the MCU

Hours after news broke earlier this week that Marvel and Fox had been in talks for weeks about Marvel potentially buying back the rights to a number of properties, including the X-Men and Fantastic Four, follow-up stories stated that the deal had stopped. According to a new report, though, the deal’s not dead yet. This…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The First Reactions to Justice League Have Surfaced, and They’re All Over the Place

We finally have some clues to help answer one of humanity’s most pressing questions: Is Zack Snyder’s Justice League good? The film, which opens next week, has begun to screen for press, and though reviews won’t be up until next week, social media reactions are out there now. Our full review will be up Wednesday,…

Movies Germain Lussier

‘Harmless’ Radioactive Cloud Drifts Over Europe Following Mysterious Nuclear Accident

The cloud of radiation that swept through Europe in recent weeks originated at a nuclear facility in either Russia or Kazakhstan, according to a report put out France’s nuclear safety institute. The levels of radiation were never dangerous—at least for Europeans living outside of the immediate area affected—but the exact cause of the incident is…

Tech News George Dvorsky

What Star Wars History May Tell Us About Rian Johnson’s New Trilogy

Yesterday, the news dropped that Rian Johnson’s time in the Star Wars universe would not end with The Last Jedi. Instead, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Johnson would be working on a brand new trilogy of movies, separate from the main Saga films, that would “introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

A Drone Captured This Hypnotic Timelapse Footage by Flying in Giant Circles

Sometimes a unique camera move can produce fascinating footage without the need for special effects or weeks of post-production. For its short film, Low Earth Orbit, Visual Suspect, a Hong Kong-based video production company, simply had a camera drone fly in a giant orbit to capture dizzying aerial footage of Folegandros island in Greece. The…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

iPhone X Doesn’t Work Right in the Cold, Users Say, But Apple Promises to Fix It

Just in time for winter, some users discovered a software bug causing the iPhone X to freeze up in cold weather. Disappointing, but what do you expect from a phone that only costs as much as a few cups of coffee? “It literally takes 2 seconds from going inside to the cold outdoors and my…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

5 Things Stranger Things Would Be Missing Without Eight and ‘The Lost Sister’

I stormed through the second season of Stranger Things during a nine-hour flight back from a social media-free vacation, so I wasn’t around to see how people were reacting to the latest visit to the Upside Down. When I reached the seventh episode, “The Lost Sister,” I remember thinking it was all right. Not the…

Television Beth Elderkin

What the New Live-Action Star Wars Show Should Learn From Star Wars Rebels

Tribes Across the Midwest Are Gearing up for a Big New Pipeline Battle

Researchers Find Grasshopper Stuck in Classic Van Gogh Painting

In Daredevil, a Trumpian Wilson Fisk Has Become Mayor of New York City

We’re the Staff of io9, Let’s Chat

All the Reasons Why The Exorcist‘s Second Season Is Even Scarier Than the First

Paradise Papers Investigation Shows StubHub Rewarding Large-Scale Scalpers

The Heartbreaking Detail You Might’ve Missed in Stranger Things 2

Aborting a Launch of NASA’S Orion Capsule Sounds Absolutely Horrifying

Redditors Say Sex Toy App Was Secretly Recording Them

We Need to Talk About Industry Funded Nutrition Science

Warner Bros Should Turn the Deathstroke Comic Into Its Next TV Show

Google Street View Has Reached the Tiny Faroe Islands Thanks to Sheep

Report: Marvel and Fox Are Still Considering the Acquisition Deal That Would Bring Characters Back to the MCU

The First Reactions to Justice League Have Surfaced, and They’re All Over the Place

‘Harmless’ Radioactive Cloud Drifts Over Europe Following Mysterious Nuclear Accident

What Star Wars History May Tell Us About Rian Johnson’s New Trilogy

A Drone Captured This Hypnotic Timelapse Footage by Flying in Giant Circles

iPhone X Doesn’t Work Right in the Cold, Users Say, But Apple Promises to Fix It

5 Things Stranger Things Would Be Missing Without Eight and ‘The Lost Sister’

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