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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Is Cancelled After One Season

Dreadful news, really. As reported by Variety, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, the Penny Dreadful spinoff/sequel series that aired its first season on Showtime this past season, has been canceled. The show, which took place in Los Angeles in 1938 and starred Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, and Nathan Lane having more fun than he knew…

io9 Julie Muncy Aug 22 '20

Gotham Knights Video Game Unites the Batfamily Against the Court of Owls

It’s been teased for over a year now, but today we finally got confirmation that a new chapter in the Batman: Arkham video game saga is on its way—but it’s a whole new threat the Dark Knight is facing, which means it’s time to bring in backup. Revealed at DC FanDome today after much teasing,…

Games James Whitbrook Aug 22 '20

Wonder Woman 1984’s New Trailer Reveals Friends and Furry Foes

Warner Bros. has just dropped the newest trailer for the long-awaited Wonder Woman sequel at DC FanDome, what feels like a lifetime after we were first meant to see the film release earlier this year (thanks, global pandemics!). We’ve been waiting a long, long time for this, but just like Max Lord claims he can,…

Trailers James Whitbrook Aug 22 '20

Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory that it was secretly torturing children in a basement it didn’t actually have. Shots were fired and panic ensued, but no one was physically harmed. Improbably, those real-life events are now the subject…

Movies Tom McKay Aug 22 '20

WordPress to Add In-App Purchases Because Apple Won’t Allow Updates Otherwise [Update: Holy Hell Did Apple Backpedal Fast]

Updated: 8/22/2020, 6:00 p.m. ET: After being put on blast for the last 24 hours, Apple issued a rare on-the-record apology on Saturday and said that WordPress will not be forced to add in-app purchases. Apple’s emailed statement reads: We believe the issue with the WordPress app has been resolved. Since the developer removed the…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Aug 21 '20

Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week

Jurassic Park ushered in a new era of digital visual effects in Hollywood, but did you know the filmmakers originally planned to bring the movie’s dinosaurs to life using stop-motion animation? Twenty-seven years after the film’s release, some of the incredibly rare puppets used to create Jurassic Park’s earliest dino screen tests are going up…

Movies Andrew Liszewski Aug 21 '20

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign plank for at least one of the U.S.’s major political parties. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are also trying to convince the public how well they’re dealing with the…

Internet Tom McKay Aug 21 '20

Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired

Apple is claiming that Epic Games asked for a “special deal” to bypass its in-app purchase policies in a filing it released today. According to CNBC, former Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller, now a Fellow with the company, said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney asked “for a ‘side letter’ from Apple that would create…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Aug 21 '20

Somehow, a Star Wars Corridor Really Is One of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the best toys on the internet lately. This week, McFarlane heads to the Continent for The Witcher toys, Hot Toys gives your Spider-Man figure something very expensive to punch, and…we’re excited by a hallway? Yes, really. Check it out! McFarlane Toys The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook Aug 21 '20

Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors

On top of the global pandemic and increasingly nightmarish election race, good chunks of the country are spending the last bits of their summer dealing with one of the most brutal wildfire seasons to date. So brutal, in fact, experts turning to new words to describe just how unprecedented this year’s California firestorm is. The…

Earther Shoshana Wodinsky Aug 21 '20

Holy DC FanDome Batman! It’s the Friday Gif Party

“Stay cool, Bird Boy.” That’s right, DC FanDome is around the corner and we’re channeling our internal Mr. Freeze with a DC gif party. Terrible one-liners preferred but not required. DC’s digital-only convention is promising some major DC news and reveals, including a brand-new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, a first look at Matt Reeves’…

Movies Beth Elderkin Aug 21 '20

Fun Game Ruined by Reality

I love video games. The popular battle royale game Fortnite, however, is not one of them. That’s probably a good thing for the planet because new data shows that the game is really carbon-intensive. Sorry to my 11-year-old nephew and millions of others, though, who play. The game launched in 2017 as one of the…

Earther Yessenia Funes Aug 21 '20

Former Uber Exec Charged Over Alleged Cover-Up of Disastrous Hack

The former chief of Uber’s security was charged this week in connection with an alleged cover-up of a massive 2016 hack that exposed the personal information of some 57 million Uber users—a breach he tried his hardest to sweep under the rug. According to a criminal complaint filed this week in the Northern California’s District…

Tech News Catie Keck Aug 21 '20

Director Renny Harlin’s Essential Genre Films, Ranked

These days, Finland-born director Renny Harlin is mostly known as Geena Davis’ ex-husband who directed her in the infamous Cutthroat Island. But his long and occasionally strange career encompasses way more than that. For instance: super-smart sharks! Though his recent credits reflect his segue into the Chinese film industry—including 2016’s Skiptrace, a buddy cop flick…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Aug 21 '20

Amid Rolling Blackouts, California Gets the World’s Biggest Battery

In the past week, millions of Californians have lost power in rolling blackouts in response to a punishing heat wave. As much as conservatives love to yell about how this shows renewable energy isn’t reliable, that’s simply not true. But it is true that in the transition away from fossil-based energy, batteries can play an…

Earther Dharna Noor Aug 21 '20

AI Murder Machine Kicks Air Force Pilot’s Ass in DARPA’s Simulated Dogfight Contest

Anyone remember the 2005 sci-fi movie Stealth? As far as I can remember, it involves a secret, artificially intelligent U.S. Air Force fighter plane that rebels against its creators when it is struck by lightning. It was not very good. Regardless, the U.S. military is now one step closer to its dream of unleashing an…

Tech News Tom McKay Aug 21 '20

So This Is the Smart Ring Everybody’s Been Talking About

Not long after the pandemic was in full swing, wearables makers big and small began to explore whether their devices could help researchers detect covid-19. While the range of wearables included well-known brands like Apple, Fitbit, and Garmin, the one that’s gotten the most attention is the Oura Ring. The hype around the Oura Ring…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song Aug 21 '20

A Mysterious 212-Story Citadel Reigns Over Melbourne in Flight Simulator

Players have applauded Microsoft’s updated Flight Simulator for realistically recreating all of the splendor the planet has to offer—including 550 cities, nearly 197 square miles land and sea—using machine learning to model 3D structures via satellite imagery from Bing Maps. Of the myriad unexplored attractions, though, pilots can not resist the thrall of The Spire: an…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Aug 21 '20

Here’s What Critics Think of Tenet, a Movie the Rest of Us Should Absolutely Not Go Out and See

Christopher Nolan’s latest Nolany-pile of Nolan-ness, Tenet, is currently set to release in American theaters in September, but it’s releasing in Europe and other parts of the world that have had a marginally better time—“marginally” being the operative word—handling the novel coronavirus pandemic. That means reviews are trickling in. But while they have plenty to…

Movies James Whitbrook Aug 21 '20

New Leaked Pixel 5 Renders Depict an Upgraded But Still Humble Midrange Phone

After finally releasing the Pixel 4a earlier this month, Google has shifted focus to the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5G, and now, new leaks for the latter have arrived. The new images show some notable, but not game-changing, upgrades for Google’s upcoming mainstream device. The latest info comes in the form of high-res renders…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Aug 21 '20

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Is Cancelled After One Season

Gotham Knights Video Game Unites the Batfamily Against the Court of Owls

Wonder Woman 1984’s New Trailer Reveals Friends and Furry Foes

Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

WordPress to Add In-App Purchases Because Apple Won’t Allow Updates Otherwise [Update: Holy Hell Did Apple Backpedal Fast]

Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired

Somehow, a Star Wars Corridor Really Is One of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors

Holy DC FanDome Batman! It’s the Friday Gif Party

Fun Game Ruined by Reality

Former Uber Exec Charged Over Alleged Cover-Up of Disastrous Hack

Director Renny Harlin’s Essential Genre Films, Ranked

Amid Rolling Blackouts, California Gets the World’s Biggest Battery

AI Murder Machine Kicks Air Force Pilot’s Ass in DARPA’s Simulated Dogfight Contest

So This Is the Smart Ring Everybody’s Been Talking About

A Mysterious 212-Story Citadel Reigns Over Melbourne in Flight Simulator

Here’s What Critics Think of Tenet, a Movie the Rest of Us Should Absolutely Not Go Out and See

New Leaked Pixel 5 Renders Depict an Upgraded But Still Humble Midrange Phone

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