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The Latest The Punisher Promo is an Unsettling Flashback

The promotional campaign for Netflix’s The Punisher is getting a little off kilter. To wit, its latest Instagram promo video is one of the most unsettling superhero-related things I’ve ever seen. The Instagram Story, captured for posterity by Twitter user @Tin_Pan_Ali, shows a dazed Punisher wandering against a flickering screen of a background, memories flashing…

Television Julie Muncy

Equifax, Which Said Executives Did Not Know of Hack Before Trades, Has Launched a ‘Thorough Review’

Equifax Inc. has insisted that three executives who sold off over a million dollars in shares just days after news of a massive hack of 143 million Americans’ financial data spread internally were not aware of the breach when they made the sales. But internally, amid federal investigations of both the company’s handling of the…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

The Sequel to Luc Besson’s Lucy is Still Happening, and Has a Script

This both is and isn’t a surprise: Luc Besson is still working on a sequel to 2014’s Lucy, and has written the script for it. The news comes buried in a shareholder meeting reported on by Variety, with the salient details picked up by Screen Rant. In it, the CEO of EuropaCorp, Besson’s film studio,…

Movies Julie Muncy

SEC Charges Shady ICO Operator With Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged businessman Maksim Zaslavskiy with fraudulently running two initial coin offerings (ICOs), a form of largely unregulated investment vehicle in which companies take investors’ cash or cryptocurrency in exchange for “crypto-tokens.” The SEC has warned for months ICOs may work as a way for scammers to illegally dodge…

Tech News Tom McKay

Harrison Ford Can’t Quite Remember His Blade Runner 2049 Co-Star’s Name

Harrison Ford is known for being a bit aloof, especially during interviews. He famously doesn’t particularly enjoy the attention, and his behavior is often a little bit on the side of strange. So it’s not all that surprising when he appeared on the Graham Norton Show last week and, uh, didn’t seem to remember Ryan…

io9 Julie Muncy

This Creator Gave Pennywise His Own Anime Scene And It’s Terrifying As All Get Out

A while ago, artist Mike Anderson shared a couple cartoon-style pictures of Pennywise from the new adaptation of It. They were creepy. Now, vocalist and graphic designer Kevin Duran has taken it a step further. And it’s a lot more than creepy. The clip he creates is only 13 seconds long, and only adds some…

io9 Julie Muncy

The NSA Warned Jared Kushner Not to Do the Dumb Email Thing That He Then Did

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and a number of other senior White House officials who used their personal emails for work purposes were expressly warned by the National Security Agency not to do so, Politico reported on Friday. Per Politico, Kushner and other staffers (including former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus) all continued to use…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Wow, There Might Be An Actual Release Date for Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film

A number of great directors have spent large portions of their careers working on widely ambitious passion projects that never see the light of day. Famously, Stanley Kubrick spent years of his life working on a sprawling biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte, the project failing to materialize again and again before his death. For a long…

Movies Julie Muncy

The Star Wars Extended Universe‘s Coolest Jedi Could’ve Been in Rogue One

When building a prequel to A New Hope, the writers and producers of the Lucasfilm top brass had a lot of possible material to work with. In the old Star Wars canon, that time period was absolutely flush with exiled Jedi, daring heroes, and villains that never made it anywhere close to the big screen.…

io9 Julie Muncy

European Scientists Agree: Homeopathy Is Pure Quackery

There are a lot of ancient medicinal cures that we no longer use. We don’t consume dried mummy powder, for example. We generally don’t use leeches (though there’s still at least one present-day use). But somehow, some so-called medical practitioners are still employing homeopathic medicine, a discredited 18th-century practice. Homeopathy describes an entire system of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Downsizing Is a Clever Big-Idea Science-Fiction Comedy With A Glaringly Terrible Flaw

In Alexander Payne’s new movie, a dainty Easy Bake Oven bell-chime signals the completion of the cellular reduction process. People who were normal-sized adults are now only inches tall, gently lifted off their beds with implements that look like spatulas. The moment is both cute and terrifying at the same time, much like Downsizing itself.…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Gerry Anderson’s Dark Scifi Thriller Captain Scarlet Is Getting a Glorious HD Restoration

Fifty years ago today, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s seminal follow up to Thunderbirds hit British TV: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, the scifi adventures of an indestructible secret agent battling a sinister Martian threat. Now, for the first time ever, it’s making its way to high-definition with a loving restoration. Announced to commemorate today’s anniversary,…

Television James Whitbrook

78/52 Is the Nerdiest Movie About Movies We’ve Ever Seen, and We Love It

78/52 is a 90-minute film about three minutes. The three minutes or so, comprised of 52 cuts shot with 78 set-ups, that make up the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror thriller Psycho. The film is solely about breaking down the scene’s genius and importance, and it takes the term “deep dive” to a…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Ankle Monitor Business Accused of Using Fear to Bind Immigrants in Debt

A staggering report from The Texas Observer describes a scheme that allegedly preys upon immigrants recently released from ICE detainment centers. Libre by Nexus, a Virgina-based company that reportedly brings in more than $30 million a year, offers to help detained immigrants by arranging for their bail to be paid by bondsmen. Upon their release,…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

The Insanity That Is the Cars Universe Can Now Add Motorcycles and Cinderella to the Mix

If there’s one constant truth in the Disney Pixar films, it’s that Cars will never make sense. Every Cars movie that comes out only adds to the confusion, and the latest tidbits that’ll stick a potato in your tailpipe have to do with why there are no motorcycles in Cars world, but there are fairy…

Movies Beth Elderkin

One Dead as Two Major Rockfalls in Two Days Rattle Yosemite’s El Capitan

At least one man is dead following a dramatic series of rockslides at Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan on Wednesday. A second “significantly larger” rockfall occurred a day later, dropping thousands of tons of rock to the forest floor below. For a period of four hours on Wednesday, a series of seven rockfalls occurred on the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Arrow‘s Big Bad Prometheus Will Return for the DC Crossover, But With a Twist

The last season of Arrow centered around the mysterious arrival of Prometheus, a masked bowman seeking vengeance against everything Oliver Queen has been working toward since becoming the Green Arrow. But even though he perished at the end of the season, Promethus will rise again in the CW/DC crossover event. Although we first glimpsed a…

Television James Whitbrook

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?

Earlier this month, when the biotech firm Human Longevity published a controversial paper claiming that it could predict what a person looks like based on only a teeny bit of DNA, it was just a little over a week before a second paper was published discrediting it as flawed and false. The lightening speed with…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Scientists Just Made the First Super-Secure Quantum Video Call

A “quantum satellite” sounds at home in the James Bond franchise, but there really is a satellite named Micius with some truly quantum assignments. In this case, it helped the president of the Chinese Academy of Science make a video call. A quantum-safe video call. The Micius satellite has made the news several times this…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Apple’s Firmware Updates Were Borked, Security Firm Says

Apple touts its closed ecosystem as a security advantage. Because it tightly controls its hardware and software, Apple can push security updates much more quickly than an open system like Android. But researchers at Duo Security say that Apple’s security update system hasn’t been working exactly as intended, with thousands of Macs not getting proper…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger

The Latest The Punisher Promo is an Unsettling Flashback

Equifax, Which Said Executives Did Not Know of Hack Before Trades, Has Launched a ‘Thorough Review’

The Sequel to Luc Besson’s Lucy is Still Happening, and Has a Script

SEC Charges Shady ICO Operator With Fraud

Harrison Ford Can’t Quite Remember His Blade Runner 2049 Co-Star’s Name

This Creator Gave Pennywise His Own Anime Scene And It’s Terrifying As All Get Out

The NSA Warned Jared Kushner Not to Do the Dumb Email Thing That He Then Did

Wow, There Might Be An Actual Release Date for Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film

The Star Wars Extended Universe‘s Coolest Jedi Could’ve Been in Rogue One

European Scientists Agree: Homeopathy Is Pure Quackery

Downsizing Is a Clever Big-Idea Science-Fiction Comedy With A Glaringly Terrible Flaw

Gerry Anderson’s Dark Scifi Thriller Captain Scarlet Is Getting a Glorious HD Restoration

78/52 Is the Nerdiest Movie About Movies We’ve Ever Seen, and We Love It

The Ankle Monitor Business Accused of Using Fear to Bind Immigrants in Debt

The Insanity That Is the Cars Universe Can Now Add Motorcycles and Cinderella to the Mix

One Dead as Two Major Rockfalls in Two Days Rattle Yosemite’s El Capitan

Arrow‘s Big Bad Prometheus Will Return for the DC Crossover, But With a Twist

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?

Scientists Just Made the First Super-Secure Quantum Video Call

Apple’s Firmware Updates Were Borked, Security Firm Says

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