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Maleficent Sequel Gets a Striking Poster and a New Release Date

Also, the actual title is way cooler than Maleficent 2. As you can see from the full poster below, the official title is Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which bodes well for Angelina Jolie’s return to the goth side of Disney’s fairy tales. Another good sign is that the film, a sequel to the 2014 villain-focused…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Mar 6

Arrow Will End After 8 Seasons This Fall

It’s the end of a massive era in superhero TV: The Emerald Archer is hanging up his bow. Tonight the CW has confirmed that Arrow is coming to an end seven years after it introduced us to Stephen Amell’s take on Oliver Queen. The series, currently airing its seventh season, will return for an eighth…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 6

Idris Elba Is Replacing Will Smith as Deadshot in Suicide Squad 2

The future of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad just keeps getting more and more interesting. After reports that Margot Robbie might be reprising her role as Harley Quinn in the film—despite the fact that she’s got a perfectly solid new jumping-off point in Birds of Prey—and that Will Smith would not be reprising his role as…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

Woman and Homeless Man Plead Guilty to Charges Related to Alleged $400,000 GoFundMe Scam

On Wednesday, the saga of the most infamous GoFundMe campaign in history came closer to a conclusion. A woman and a homeless man whom prosecutors claim engaged in a fraudulent scheme that raised $400,000 on the crowdfunding site have pleaded guilty to federal charges. According to the Associated Press: Johnny Bobbitt, 36, of Philadelphia, pleaded…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 6

HBO’s Lovecraft Country Could Be Everything Green Book Wasn’t

There are as many valid criticisms of Peter Farrelly’s Best Picture Oscar-winner Green Book as there are listings in Victor Hugo Green’s The Negro Motorist Green Book. But an upcoming adaptation has a lot more potential to tell the real story, even if there are Lovecraftian monsters involved. The Negro Motorist Green Book (published from…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

President Trump Praises His Good Friend ‘Tim Apple’

Look at the photo above. “Why that’s Donald Trump and highly recognizable tech CEO Tim Cook!” you might think. But you’d be wrong, because below is video of the President calling the magnate by his true name during today’s Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting. “We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple,” said Trump. Early in…

Tech News Avery Ellis Mar 6

Trump Rescinds Policy of Reporting Civilian Deaths by Drone Strike

The head of the U.S. intelligence community is no longer required to publish an annual report detailing the number of civilians and enemy combatants killed in U.S. drone strikes abroad. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday revoking the reporting requirement, which had been implemented in the Obama administration’s final year. Section three…

Tech News Dell Cameron Mar 6

NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

An air-to-air imaging technology developed by NASA has resulted in the first images ever taken of interacting shockwaves produced by in-flight supersonic jets. The new images, in addition to being beautiful, will help NASA design jets capable of producing gentle rumbles instead of loud sonic booms when breaking the sound barrier. The project, called AirBOS,…

Tech News George Dvorsky Mar 6

George R.R. Martin Says There May Be ‘Discrepancies’ Between the Game of Thrones Finale and His Books

Yes, George R.R. Martin is still working on The Winds of Winter. Yes, that means A Dream of Spring will come eventually. But before that happens, we’re getting the eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. What will this spoil for fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series? Hopefully: not…

io9 Beth Elderkin Mar 6

Professional Buster of Ghosts Ernie Hudson Joins Arrow in a Guest Role

He ain’t afraid of no arrows. Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson has signed onto a special guest role on an upcoming episode of the CW’s Arrow. According to Deadline, Hudson will appear in an upcoming episode called “Spartan,” playing a four-star general of the Defense Intelligence Agency (or DIA) who teams up with Oliver Queen and…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Mar 6

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Privacy’

And on the sixth day of March the clouds above Menlo Park parted, and lo, Mark Zuckerberg spoke of privacy. Today was another Big Idea day for Mark, one where our pallid, lab-grown CEO shovels 3,000 words of pure disruption down our collective throats (in the form of a lengthy Facebook post). This particular sermon’s…

Social Media Avery Ellis Mar 6

Scientists Might Finally Know Why Some Icebergs Are Bright Green

In the 18th-century English ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a storm drives a sailor’s ship toward the South Pole, where he encounters all manner of fantastical sights, including floating icebergs “as green as emerald.” It may sound like author Samuel Coleridge was taking some poetic license, but emerald-colored icebergs are a real thing—and…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Mar 6

The Live-Action Gundam Movie Will Be Written By Saga’s Brian K. Vaughan

Legendary’s moving forward with its plans to put out a live-action movie based on Sunrise’s seminal and wildly influential Gundam series, and it’s found someone we’re very familiar with to write the script. Deadline reports that Saga co-creator Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to write Gundam. The comic creator will also serve as an…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru

Archaeologists working at a 15th-century site in Peru have unearthed the remains of 137 children and 200 llamas in what’s now considered the largest mass child sacrifice known from the New World—and possibly of all time. The scene is almost impossible to comprehend. The researchers speculate it went something like this: One after one, the…

Human History George Dvorsky Mar 6

Ian McShane Says the American Gods Showrunners’ Firing Had to Do With ‘Ego, Hubris, and Money’

It’s no secret that—as fantastic as the first season of Starz’s American Gods was—there was enough behind-the-scenes drama involving the show’s co-creators and showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller that they parted ways with the network, casting a certain amount of uncertainty over American Gods’ future. But American Gods has carried on into its second…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

Japanese Cops Investigate 13-Year-Old Prankster for Sharing Link to ‘Uncloseable’ Pop-Up Window

A 13-year-old girl living in Kariya, Japan has been investigated and chastised by police for sharing a prank link online. The link reportedly initiates a pop-up window designed to be impossible to close online. According to Japanese outlet NHK, the junior high school student was “guided” (a form of youth offender intervention in Japan) for…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 6

Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?

This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson’s Spravato, the nasal spray version of a ketamine-like sedative, for certain cases of depression. And the drug is already being heralded as a “game-changer” for depression and suicide treatment. But chief among the major questions the average person might have about the new drug…

Health Ed Cara Mar 6

It Looks Like Apple Is Softening Up Its Repair Policies

Multiple outlets report that Apple has changed its policy regarding repairs to iPhones with third-party battery replacements. These reports say that Apple will now fix iPhones even if the device has a non-Apple battery inside. And since batteries are perhaps the most essential repair for a mobile device, this is a big deal not only…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 6

Samsung Galaxy S10 Review: An Android Champ to Get Excited About

If the Pixel 3 was Google’s crowning achievement for showing how good a software-first approach to phone design can be, then the Galaxy S10 is a tribute to the hardware gods. Between a new take on the tired notched selfie cam, a redesigned rear camera setup with three different lenses, and incredible battery life, the…

Smartphones Sam Rutherford Mar 6

10 Cult Sci-Fi Movies About Environmental Revenge

Nature strikes back! That’s the shared theme of these 10 eco-horror movies we’ve compiled in honor of Garbage Week, all tales of terrible punishments that transpire when the environment lashes out against evil, wasteful, and destructive humans. Read on, and be warned: Mother Earth is growing weary of your shit. 10. Day of the Animals…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 6

Maleficent Sequel Gets a Striking Poster and a New Release Date

Arrow Will End After 8 Seasons This Fall

Idris Elba Is Replacing Will Smith as Deadshot in Suicide Squad 2

Woman and Homeless Man Plead Guilty to Charges Related to Alleged $400,000 GoFundMe Scam

HBO’s Lovecraft Country Could Be Everything Green Book Wasn’t

President Trump Praises His Good Friend ‘Tim Apple’

Trump Rescinds Policy of Reporting Civilian Deaths by Drone Strike

NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

George R.R. Martin Says There May Be ‘Discrepancies’ Between the Game of Thrones Finale and His Books

Professional Buster of Ghosts Ernie Hudson Joins Arrow in a Guest Role

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Privacy’

Scientists Might Finally Know Why Some Icebergs Are Bright Green

The Live-Action Gundam Movie Will Be Written By Saga’s Brian K. Vaughan

Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru

Ian McShane Says the American Gods Showrunners’ Firing Had to Do With ‘Ego, Hubris, and Money’

Japanese Cops Investigate 13-Year-Old Prankster for Sharing Link to ‘Uncloseable’ Pop-Up Window

Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?

It Looks Like Apple Is Softening Up Its Repair Policies

Samsung Galaxy S10 Review: An Android Champ to Get Excited About

10 Cult Sci-Fi Movies About Environmental Revenge

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