The best movie rewatches happen when you revisit a film you know you liked, but don’t really remember. That happened to me last week with Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report. I saw it in theaters when it was released 20 years ago this week but have probably only seen it once since then. So I was…
Source: io9 – Minority Report Remains a Flawed But Fantastic Sci-Fi Noir
Researchers at the gonzo Pentagon research agency responsible for introducing the world to stealth bombers, insect-sized surveillance drones, and the internet itself have some reservations about the blockchain technology underpinning Web3.
Source: io9 – Blockchains Vulnerable to Centralized Control, DARPA Report Finds
Apple is in the spotlight again after a group of Senators published a letter on Thursday asking the US Commerce Department to establish a universal charging standard for smartphones.
Source: io9 – Sanders and Warren Put Apple on Notice With Universal Charger Push
Elon Musk’s Boring Company—which has been living up to its name—has received approval to expand its Las Vegas tunnels. The expansion will bring the company’s Las Vegas loop all the way to city limits.
Source: io9 – Elon’s One-Lane Vegas Tesla Tunnels Expanding Into Full Boondoggle
Discord is ramping up its content moderation tools and rolling out resources to support its overworked volunteer moderators. The company is also expanding its premium memberships program, which allows users to set up paid subscriptions for their servers.
Source: io9 – Discord Releases Automatic Content Moderation Tool to Support Its Overworked Mods
If you saw Jurassic World Dominion this past weekend—and the film’s very large box office suggests that you did—I’m so sorry. If you haven’t yet, please let me save you some time by answering all the questions you could possibly have about the staggeringly bad final installment in the Jurassic World trilogy, including…
Source: io9 – Jurassic World Dominion: The Spoiler FAQ
The superhero genre has been trying its hand at various different tones in recent years, but the upcoming Joker sequel is really swinging for the fences. Yesterday evening saw the surprising news that Joker: Folie à deux won’t just be casting Lady Gaga in a role that’s probably his most notable gal pal Harley Quinn,…
Source: io9 – If Joker 2’s Doing It, What Other Superhero Should Get a Musical Movie?
People with a severe form of baldness will now have a significant treatment option available. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved baricitinib for treating alopecia areata. The drug, taken as a pill, is the first of its kind intended to treat the autoimmune disorder, though it’s already commonly used…
Source: io9 – FDA Approves First Drug of Its Kind for Severe Alopecia
Netflix has revealed a new collaboration with iconic RPG studio Bioware will see the world of it grim fantasy series Dragon Age come to animated life on the streamer with Dragon Age: Absolution, a new series produced by Red Dog Culture House.
Source: io9 – A Dragon Age Animated Series Is Coming to Netflix
Only a few days before the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the 18-year-old shooter legally bought both rifles he used to claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults. Now that the ease of buying a gun is again back in the public eye, sites like Facebook find they have some ‘splaining to do as to why they don’t do a…
Source: io9 – Facebook Has a Rule Banning Gun Sales, but You Can Break it 10 Times
Thor: Love and Thunder has released a new teaser trailer in anticipation of tickets going on sale Monday. The sneak peek Marvel has released is short, but shows a lot of quick glances at scenes and footage that haven’t been previously revealed. Besides giving Jane Foster her own superhero landing scene, there’s a lot…
Source: io9 – Thor: Love and Thunder’s New Teaser Brings Down the Hammer
Stranger Things season four volume one helped set up what’ll hopefully be a thrilling conclusion for Netflix’s powerhouse series—and its creators are well aware of the expectations. In an interview with TVLine, Matt and Ross Duffer provided an update on where they stand with setting the final season into motion.
Source: io9 – Yes, the Duffer Brothers Realize They Need a Time Jump on Stranger Things
Somehow, it’s been 25 years since crusty Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) recruited wide-eyed Agent J (Will Smith) into a top-secret government agency dealing with Earth-alien relations. To celebrate, Barry Sonnenfeld’s original Men in Black is getting a brief theatrical return, in a slick new 4K version to boot.
Source: io9 – Men in Black Is Getting a Shiny, Slimy 4K Theatrical Release
The upcoming launch of an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station has been postponed following a potential propellant leak, in what is a rare glitch for the reliable cargo vehicle.
Source: io9 – NASA and SpaceX Postpone Cargo Mission Over Leaky Spacecraft
Wildfires have been wreaking havoc over the past few weeks, as several fires—like the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico—continue to burn. Greece is currently battling another wildfire that began on Saturday in the area surrounding Athens, and it is only one of the 61 different wildfires that were active in…
Source: io9 – Wildfire Rages Through Suburbs of Athens, Greece, Forcing Evacuations
In the decade-spanning conflict between the need for online privacy and efforts to stop fake accounts from accessing sensitive info, the tech monolith that is Microsoft is putting its massive weight behind the creation of standardized online identities.
Source: io9 – Microsoft Wants to Prove You Exist with Verified ID System, if You’ll Let It
It’s time to go back to Hawkins, Indiana, the freakiest town in America, and reconnect with all our pals—as well as the Stranger Things characters who’re having their own freaky times out West and in Russia. With the first volume of season four episodes now on Netflix, let’s talk spoilers!
Source: io9 – Attention Hellfire Club, It’s the Stranger Things Season 4 Spoiler Zone
The tomatoes of the future could help boost your levels of the sunshine vitamin. Researchers in the UK say they’ve developed genetically edited tomatoes that can produce high levels of vitamin D with just an hour of ultraviolet light exposure. These edited tomatoes would ideally help provide a rich and plant-based…
Source: io9 – Scientists CRISPR’d Tomatoes to Make Them Full of Vitamin D
Ask about seeing Hayden Christensen in the Darth Vader suit on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Deborah Chow can’t answer. “Unfortunately I can’t talk about [that] at this point,” she said. “I wish I could, but, you know, we’d get into spoilers with that.” But Chow, the showrunner and director of the upcoming Star Wars…
Source: io9 – The Dark Side of Obi-Wan Kenobi: Bringing Back Darth Vader and Introducing Inquisitors
If you’ve ever laid awake at night wondering about how bad wildfires, droughts, storms, and floods could get in the future, then climate change has already been robbing you of sleep.
Source: io9 – Climate Change Might Be Stealing Your Sleep