If you’re a Star Wars fan who was always groggy watching the latest episodes of The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett, and Andor, you’re in luck. Lucasfilm just announced that all episodes of Ahsoka will debut on Disney+ at 6 p.m. PST, 9 p.m. EST Tuesdays, beginning this Tuesday August 22 with the…
Source: io9 – Ahsoka Episodes Will Debut At a Reasonable Hour
The International Space Station (ISS) has been home to more than 250 astronauts who have lived and worked on board the orbiting lab for months at a time. Unlike homes on Earth, however, the space station has been discovered to have higher levels of chemical contamination lingering in dust.
Source: io9 – The ISS Has Higher Levels of Potentially Harmful Contaminants Than Most Homes
Halloween is starting now, and if that thought makes you groan like a zombie, you’ve clearly forgotten how early things begin to sell out at your local Spirit Halloween. Yeah, pretty much as soon as doors open and hordes of horror fiends descend into the aisles.
Source: io9 – Code Orange: Spirit Halloween Unleashes Horror Film Fan Decor, Props, and Toys
Here’s some potentially happy news: Depression and anxiety might not raise the chances of cancer after all, new research this week has found. The study, a review of existing research, found no significant link between either condition and an increased risk of cancer in general, or many of the most common types of…
Source: io9 – Depression and Anxiety Won’t Raise Your Risk of Cancer, Study Finds
A day spa in Northern California might be the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. Over the weekend, local health officials reported three cases of the bacterial illness, including two deaths, among recent customers of the Zen Day Spa in Richmond. The spa has now been closed down while officials…
Source: io9 – Day Spa Investigated Over Deadly Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease
Sure, we’re all busy playing Baldur’s Gate, but if you have a minute to look up from the screen, we’re here to tell you about what’s coming up on…well, your other screen, probably. Check out the trailer for Marvel’s I Am Groot and keep your eyes out for the Korean film Devils, hopefully coming to a big screen near…
Source: io9 – Check Out New One Piece Live-Action Promo Photos
Futurama’s new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week’s “How the West Was 1010001,” which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze. Like most places they visit, they encounter absurdities, even more puns, and some very shady robot…
Source: io9 – Everyone’s Favorite Knife-Wielding Robot Returns in Next Week’s Futurama
An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at Gen Con 2023, explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That’s not her real name; that’s her character’s name for a …
Source: io9 – Lorcana Hopefuls Wait in Line for 14 Hours for Disney Magic
Strange New Worlds’ musical episode was a great episode of Star Trek, but it was also a humdinger of a musical—a soundtrack laden with a frankly distressing number of earworms. And now you can listen to it without having to queue up Paramount+.
Source: io9 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Excellent Musical Soundtrack Is Now Streaming
Rom-com Elemental—initially a disappointment for Pixar and Disney—has continued to rack up money at the box office, and now the sleeper hit has a new income stream in its near future: home viewers. Peter Sohn’s animated tale will soon arrive on digital, followed by a physical release, and it’s bringing tons of extras…
Source: io9 – Pixar’s Slow-Burn Hit Elemental Is Coming Home Soon, With Tons of Extras
“Will this work/Who can say?/We’re gonna sing it/anyway!” An interlude in the climactic song of Star Trek’s first ever musical episode—and an underlying thesis that guides it as it swings for one of the boldest ideas the franchise has ever tried… and by god, does it nail it.
Source: io9 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Musical Episode Is a Glorious Triumph
When Marvel relaunched the Star Wars comics line, the world was a simpler place. Lucasfilm had just rebooted its official continuity, there was room for new stories, new insight into familiar faces, new opportunities to flesh out the space between the Star Wars movies. And now, we come to this: zombie droids.
Source: io9 – Zombie Droids Are the Least Interesting Thing About Star Wars Comics’ New Zombie Droids Event
Before anyone says anything—no, you cannot yet stream Tommy Wiseau’s Big Shark. Still a theater-only situation with that one. But there are plenty of other movies out there featuring ridiculously large sea creatures, with hapless humans scrambling to survive them. With Ben Wheatley’s The Meg 2: The Trench arriving…
Source: io9 – 10 Shark and Sea Monster Movies to Stream Ahead of The Meg 2: The Trench
Amazon is expanding its repertoire of services to include a virtual health clinic which is now available to customers in all 50 states starting on Tuesday. Customers will have access to clinicians 24 hours a day through both Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app.
Source: io9 – Amazon’s Virtual Healthcare Is Now Available 24/7 in All 50 States
Earlier today, SpaceX performed the second test of its newly installed Starship deluge system. This test was considerably more powerful than the first one, which the company conducted on July 17.
Source: io9 – SpaceX Edges Closer to Next Launch With High-Power Test of Starship’s Water Deluge System
On Tuesday, July 25, a power outage occurred at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, leading to a temporary disruption in communication with the International Space Station.
Source: io9 – Power Outage at Mission Control Temporarily Disrupts NASA’s Link to ISS
Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, has had a lot of not-very-flattering press written about him recently, and the quotes and soundbytes he’s given out to the trades have not helped matters. The oft-referenced quote that he gave to CNBC in mid-July about the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA demands remains particularly condescending.
Source: io9 – Disney CEO Bob Iger Can’t Seem to Find the Right Thing to Say
Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal defense tried to convince a judge “nothing improper or impermissible occurred” last week when the disgraced crypto founder leaked former Alameda Research CEO and on-again-off-again girlfriend Caroline Ellison’s personal diary to The New York Times. The former FTX CEO’s defense says the leaked…
Source: io9 – SBF Says He Leaked Ex-GF’s Diary to NYT to Fight ‘Toxic Media’
During the “Women of Marvel” panel at San Diego Comic-Con, fans got to learn more about the upcoming comic Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, written by Iman Vellani—star of Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Ms. Marvel and upcoming feature The Marvels.
Source: io9 – Sana Amanat Explains How Iman Vellani Became the New Writer for Ms. Marvel
