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Danny Elfman Has a Missed Connection with an Ogre in the Video for ‘Love in the Time of Covid’

Danny Elfman thought he had left rock behind. But in an interview with Inverse, he said he picked it up again as a pandemic hobby. And here we are, with a missed connection with an ogre. The longtime film composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman’s pandemic hobby became a pandemic project in his first solo…

Movies Courtney Enlow Feb 27

Great, Now the PlayStation Network Is Down Too

This has been a rough week for anyone trying to play games online. Sony’s PlayStation Network began experiencing issues Friday afternoon, and the outage seems to have persisted into the weekend based on the PSN status page. The outage comes just one day after the equivalent service for Sony’s competitor Microsoft, Xbox Live, went down…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Feb 27

Tomb Raider Showrunner Tasha Huo Is Joining Joey Soloway to Write Red Sonja

Red Sonja has been a long, long time coming, but with a very welcome addition, it’s time to get the show on the road. Netflix’s Tomb Raider showrunner Tasha Huo has been announced as screenwriter for the upcoming—and long awaited—Red Sonja movie, joining director Joey Soloway. Soloway was previously announced as both writing and directing,…

Books & Comics Courtney Enlow Feb 27

Raven the Science Maven Has a Message for Aspiring STEM Workers: Be Your Unapologetic Self

Diversity has always been an issue in STEM. Although a 2018 Pew report found that women make up half of the U.S. workforce in STEM occupations, it also found that their presence varies widely across occupational clusters and education levels. Black and Hispanic workers are underrepresented in STEM, per the report, representing only 9% and…

Science Jody Serrano Feb 27

The Boys Season 3 Will Be a Supernatural Reunion

SPN fam, next season of The Boys is for you. We learned last year that Jensen Ackles will join the cast for The Boys season three, reuniting with Supernatural creator and The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke. Now Variety has announced that more Supernatural writers are along for the ride. SPN writers Meredith Glynn, David Reed,…

Books & Comics Courtney Enlow Feb 27

Federal Authorities Confirm Sighting of Yet Another UFO, This Time in New Mexico

Multiple authorities have confirmed that commercial airline pilots recently saw, well, something, hurtling through America’s southwestern skies. The lowdown is this: American Airlines Flight 2292 was passing over Clayton, N.M., on Sunday, traveling at 36,000 feet en route to Phoenix from Cincinnati, when the crew witnessed a “long, cylindrical” object. The object shot over the…

Tech News Lucas Ropek Feb 26

I’m Packing My Bags to Visit the Real-Life Inspiration for Windows XP’s Wallpaper

I don’t think about the iconic Windows XP wallpaper often, but when an article or a video comes across my social media feed reminding me of it, nothing but happy memories come flooding back. Thanks to a recent SFGate article, I feel like I’m lying in a soft patch of grass, a cool breeze washing…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Feb 26

Oh No, There Are Too Many Babies in This Week’s Toy News

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all things good and plastic. This week: Babies! So many babies! Baby Yoda is here, laser babies are here, and, well, what more could you want? Check it out! Medicom MAFEX The Boys Billy Butcher Figure With a neverending onslaught of goodie-goodie Marvel content across…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook Feb 26

HBO Max, I Beg You, Give Me the Like and Dislike Buttons Already

We’re creeping closer to the one-year mark and HBO Max is still tinkering with its platform. An update for the app that popped up earlier this week states in its App Store release notes that users will “notice new video player controls that are more streamlined and easier to use in this update.” In addition…

Internet Catie Keck Feb 26

Static, Hardware, Icon and Rocket Get New Creative Teams for Milestone Returns Series

As promised, DC Comics revealed today Milestone Returns: Infinite Edition’s writers, artists, and covers of the upcoming Static, Hardware, and Icon and Rocket series, as well as a couple of interior pages for each. To put it bluntly, the Dakotaverse is looking completely awesome. There’s been a lot of excitement about the return of the…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken Feb 26

Griddy Is Being Sued for $1 Billion for Allegedly Price Gouging During Texas Winter Storm

A Texas woman filed a class-action lawsuit this week to the tune of $1 billion in damages against Griddy, a Texas electricity retailer that the suit alleges engaged in illegal price gouging during the widespread outages that swept through the state last week. Houston resident Lisa Khoury filed the suit on behalf of the countless…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Feb 26

We Are Tech Is the Exact Edtech Startup the U.S. Needs Right Now

“The action of amplifying [Black voices] has been necessary, but what is the next step?” said Brittany Jenkins, the founder of the We Are Tech edtech startup. Jenkins is on the frontlines of working to foster diversity and equity in the tech industry. We Are Tech is not the first organization to address these issues,…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Feb 26

Is WandaVision’s Paul Bettany Teasing What We Think He’s Teasing?

Earlier this month, WandaVision star Paul Bettany teased a cameo for the Disney+ Marvel series that would set our hearts, minds, and vibranium aflutter. “There is one character that has not been revealed,” the Vision actor told Esquire. “And it is very exciting. It is an actor I’ve longed to work with all of my…

Books & Comics Courtney Enlow Feb 26

Americans Are Warming Up to Covid-19 Vaccines, Poll Finds

More Americans are willing to get a covid-19 vaccine, new polling suggests. According to a survey run by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans are more likely to have been vaccinated or to want vaccination in February than they were a month ago, while the percentage of people who want to wait and see has declined…

Health Ed Cara Feb 26

In Defense of an Alexa-Enabled Coffee Maker

If you happen to be in the market for a new coffee maker, may I recommend a smart assistant-enabled model? Let me be clear that this isn’t something that you absolutely need, but it’s something I’ve found has made my morning routine marginally smoother. I typically wake up very, very early—often before my alarm—and the…

Gadgets Catie Keck Feb 26

Great Minds Think Alike at the Friday Gif Party

You’re ready for the weekend. We’re ready for the weekend. We are of like minds that the weekend needs to start ASAP. So let’s do this…with gifs. It’s been a big week for Pokémon, Superman, and WandaVision, but we’re too beat to force any draconian rules on your gifs this week. So go ahead and…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 26

Go Update Your Passwords Right Now

Hey, you, casual internet user. Why not go and update your passwords right now? I’m not trying to boss you around or anything, but semi-frequent password changes are widely considered a great way to avoid getting hacked and having your information spilled all over the web. Yes, bad actors break into more systems than you…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 26

CPAC Panelist Tried to Launch Japanese Tea Party for Guru Who Communed With Pro-Trump Spirit

One of the speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the potential coronavirus super-spreader event being thrown by Republicans in Orlando, Florida this week, is a former leader of the political arm of a… we’ll say spiritually innovative faith in Japan. The guru at the center of said group has previously claimed to have…

Politics Tom McKay Feb 26

The RTX 3060 Will Be the First of Nvidia’s New Graphics Cards to Get a Frame Rate Boost

Those who were able to purchase one of Nvidia’s new RTX 3060 graphics cards yesterday now have access to the company’s long-awaited Resizable BAR support, which is the feature PC users can enable at the BIOS-level to let the CPU and GPU talk directly to one another. This is a big deal, because that instantly…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius Feb 26

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Is Heading to the Other Kind of Theaters

The Academy Award-winning movie Spirited Away is being spirited to the stage. A theatrical production of the film is coming next year, written and directed by John Caird, the Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. That’s quite the pedigree, although that’s what Spirited Away—thought by many to be director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s…

Movies Rob Bricken Feb 26

Danny Elfman Has a Missed Connection with an Ogre in the Video for ‘Love in the Time of Covid’

Great, Now the PlayStation Network Is Down Too

Tomb Raider Showrunner Tasha Huo Is Joining Joey Soloway to Write Red Sonja

Raven the Science Maven Has a Message for Aspiring STEM Workers: Be Your Unapologetic Self

The Boys Season 3 Will Be a Supernatural Reunion

Federal Authorities Confirm Sighting of Yet Another UFO, This Time in New Mexico

I’m Packing My Bags to Visit the Real-Life Inspiration for Windows XP’s Wallpaper

Oh No, There Are Too Many Babies in This Week’s Toy News

HBO Max, I Beg You, Give Me the Like and Dislike Buttons Already

Static, Hardware, Icon and Rocket Get New Creative Teams for Milestone Returns Series

Griddy Is Being Sued for $1 Billion for Allegedly Price Gouging During Texas Winter Storm

We Are Tech Is the Exact Edtech Startup the U.S. Needs Right Now

Is WandaVision’s Paul Bettany Teasing What We Think He’s Teasing?

Americans Are Warming Up to Covid-19 Vaccines, Poll Finds

In Defense of an Alexa-Enabled Coffee Maker

Great Minds Think Alike at the Friday Gif Party

Go Update Your Passwords Right Now

CPAC Panelist Tried to Launch Japanese Tea Party for Guru Who Communed With Pro-Trump Spirit

The RTX 3060 Will Be the First of Nvidia’s New Graphics Cards to Get a Frame Rate Boost

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Is Heading to the Other Kind of Theaters

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