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- A Website Resettling Ukrainian Refugees Got Adoring Headlines. Experts Say It Was Too Good to Be True.
- Superhero Movies Aren’t Oscar Worthy Yet, But They Can Be
- Moon Knight's Director Wants to Change the Media's Perception of Egypt
- The Dark Universe's Bride of Frankenstein Would've Been a Time-Hopping, Gothic Horror Film
- Morbius' Director Opens Up on Its Post-Credits Scene, and It's Weird
- Who is LAPSUS$, the Big, Bad Cybercrime Gang Hacking Tech's Biggest Companies?
- Celebrate Women Making Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films and TV With This Streaming List
- Big Fists, Big Chins, and Big Pecs Are the Big News in This Week's Toys
- Spoilers of the Week March 21-25
- Australia's Great Barrier Reef Is Suffering Yet Another Mass Bleaching
- Galactic Starcruiser Is Basically Star Wars: Choose Your Own Adventure (Sort Of)
- 'I Would See People Get Shot in the Face:' TikTok Ex-Moderators Sue Over On-the-Job Trauma
- Sauron, Dark Lord of Mordor and Lord of the Rings Star, Dead at... Hoo Boy
- Apple's New iPad Air Is the Smart Choice
- Why 'Prolonged Grief Disorder' Has Mental Health Professionals Split
- Tiny Tome Proves Big Game Ideas Can Come in Small Spreads
- The Speed of Sound on Mars Is Kinda Funky, New Evidence Suggests
- Google's Third-Gen Nest Hub Could Be a Smart Home Tablet
- Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Artifact of Evil
- Halo's Premiere Included a Sneaky Nod to Mass Effect
- How Western Oil Companies Paid for Putin's War
- Everything Everywhere All at Once Centers Love Amid the Multiverse
- Antarctica’s Conger Ice Shelf Suffers ‘Complete Collapse’
- EU Regulators Agree to Rein in Big Tech’s Walled Gardens
- 10 Great 2021 Genre Films That Weren't Nominated For Oscars
| Posted: 26 Mar 2022 12:55 PM PDT Three days after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, 19-year-old Harvard University student Avi Schiffmann published a tweet in the middle of the night: "a cool idea would be to set up a website to match Ukrainian refugees to hosts in neighboring countries. |
| Superhero Movies Aren’t Oscar Worthy Yet, But They Can Be Posted: 26 Mar 2022 12:00 PM PDT  The 2022 Oscars are this weekend, and it's shaping up to be one of the messiest versions of the annual film awards show for a variety of reasons. Before its controversial category omissions and foolish decision to bring back the "most popular film" category (but this time stupidly dictated by Twitter), one of the most… |
| Moon Knight's Director Wants to Change the Media's Perception of Egypt Posted: 26 Mar 2022 11:15 AM PDT  Like Iron Fist and Shang-Chi before him, the comic book character of Moon Knight is built around several orientalist tropes that have not aged well in the slightest since these characters were first created in 70s. In the same way that Marvel's been recently trying to untangle those tropes from Shang and Iron Fist in… |
| The Dark Universe's Bride of Frankenstein Would've Been a Time-Hopping, Gothic Horror Film Posted: 26 Mar 2022 10:00 AM PDT  Universal's Dark Universe died before it could even get off the ground, one of multiple attempts at building a cinematic universe after Marvel's made it look so cool in the present day. But audiences very much said "yeah, no" to its debut film, the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, back in 2017. Among the various plans there… |
| Morbius' Director Opens Up on Its Post-Credits Scene, and It's Weird Posted: 26 Mar 2022 08:00 AM PDT  It's been a long, delay-heavy road for Morbius, which releases next week. Sony's been trying their best to build Jared Leto's tragic-ish vampire as another big part of their Spider-Man adjacent cinematic universe that so far has only led to Venom and whatever the heck that Kraven the Hunter movie is going to be. But… |
| Who is LAPSUS$, the Big, Bad Cybercrime Gang Hacking Tech's Biggest Companies? Posted: 26 Mar 2022 04:05 AM PDT  For the past three months, a mysterious hacker gang has been giving Silicon Valley a migraine of epic proportions. LAPSUS$, a band of cybercriminals with unorthodox techniques and a flare for the dramatic, has been on a white hot streak—lining tech companies up and knocking em' down like bowling pins. |
| Celebrate Women Making Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films and TV With This Streaming List Posted: 25 Mar 2022 05:25 PM PDT  March is Women's History Month, so it seems like the perfect moment to celebrate women who are making history in genre film and television. We've compiled a handy list of movies and series, broken down by streaming service, that all highlight the bold (and sometimes legendary) voices of the women behind a lot of our… |
| Big Fists, Big Chins, and Big Pecs Are the Big News in This Week's Toys Posted: 25 Mar 2022 03:00 PM PDT  Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's round up of the latest and greatest in wallet-draining plastic fun. This week, Hasbro returns to Mighty Morphin nostalgia with new retro Zords, we get our first glimpse of Lightyear's toy line, and Mattel's Masters of the Universe toys revisit a classic. Check it out! |
| Spoilers of the Week March 21-25 Posted: 25 Mar 2022 02:15 PM PDT |
| Australia's Great Barrier Reef Is Suffering Yet Another Mass Bleaching Posted: 25 Mar 2022 02:10 PM PDT  Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its fourth mass bleaching in only six years, with corals severely damaged by warming sea temperatures. Earlier today, Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which oversees the reef system, confirmed the mass bleaching and expressed hope for a potential… |
| Galactic Starcruiser Is Basically Star Wars: Choose Your Own Adventure (Sort Of) Posted: 25 Mar 2022 02:00 PM PDT  By now, Star Wars fans have all read reviews of Galactic Starcruiser, the new immersive (and expensive) attraction at Walt Disney World set aboard the Halcyon, a hotel designed to make guests feel like they're traveling within the galaxy far, far away. As you might imagine, the "journey" required a hell of a lot of… |
| 'I Would See People Get Shot in the Face:' TikTok Ex-Moderators Sue Over On-the-Job Trauma Posted: 25 Mar 2022 01:30 PM PDT  A small army of overworked content moderators is the public's last line of defense against a flood of depraved and horrific content uploaded to social media. While the moderators help us normal users avoid the worst of the worst, constant exposure to humanity's darkest impulses can wreak havoc on their mental health.… |
| Sauron, Dark Lord of Mordor and Lord of the Rings Star, Dead at... Hoo Boy Posted: 25 Mar 2022 01:15 PM PDT  Sauron, the fallen Maia, former Lieutenant of the Dark Lord Morgoth, and previous wielder of the One Ring of Power, has passed away after a brief several thousands of years of being a non-corporeal spirit bound to the tower of Barad-dûr. He was... very, very old. |
| Apple's New iPad Air Is the Smart Choice Posted: 25 Mar 2022 12:50 PM PDT  The iPad Air is one of the easiest products to recommend. Need a tablet? You should probably go with this one. That's even more true today now that Apple has equipped the mid-range product with a more powerful engine. The supercharged M1 processor now powering this slate is a proven entity, having logged miles on the … |
| Why 'Prolonged Grief Disorder' Has Mental Health Professionals Split Posted: 25 Mar 2022 12:38 PM PDT  The American Psychiatric Association last week officially introduced a new diagnosable mental health condition: prolonged grief disorder. The news, while welcomed by some clinicians and researchers, has also been controversial. At the heart of the debate is the long-running question of how to define suffering, as well… |
| Tiny Tome Proves Big Game Ideas Can Come in Small Spreads Posted: 25 Mar 2022 12:20 PM PDT  It should be no surprise to anyone that I love a TTRPG anthology, and as soon as I got my hands on Tiny Tome I knew that I was holding something special. Collected from an open call via itch.io, Long Tail Games has curated a selection that touches on every genre and gameplay style. Like a lot of games selected from an… |
| The Speed of Sound on Mars Is Kinda Funky, New Evidence Suggests Posted: 25 Mar 2022 12:03 PM PDT  Using a microphone, a laser, and some crafty mathematics, a team of scientists has measured the speed of sound on Mars, in what is a scientific first and another cool finding made possible by NASA's Perseverance rover. |
| Google's Third-Gen Nest Hub Could Be a Smart Home Tablet Posted: 25 Mar 2022 11:45 AM PDT  Google is working on a new version of its Nest Hub with a different form factor than its predecessors: a dockable tablet, according to 9to5Google. |
| Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Artifact of Evil Posted: 25 Mar 2022 11:30 AM PDT  Having treated myself to several good Dungeons & Dragons novels in a row—mainly the original Dragonlance trilogy and R.A. Salvatore's The Halfling's Gem—in the last few D&D&N columns, I knew that I must pay a price in return. That price was reading Artifact of Evil, the second Greyhawk novel by D&D co-creator Gary… |
| Halo's Premiere Included a Sneaky Nod to Mass Effect Posted: 25 Mar 2022 10:30 AM PDT  The first episode of Halo is full of nods to the legendary Microsoft shooter franchise's video game roots and its wider lore from generations of tie-in novels and comics. But it also managed to sneak in a lovely little nod to a fellow sci-fi gaming icon—one that itself has been aching for an adaptation for almost as… |
| How Western Oil Companies Paid for Putin's War Posted: 25 Mar 2022 10:00 AM PDT  Major Western oil companies including Exxon, Shell and BP have paid billions of dollars to the Russian government as it escalated tensions against Ukraine in recent years, a new analysis released Friday from a group of NGOs finds, illustrating how the oil and gas industry has helped prop up and enrich President … |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once Centers Love Amid the Multiverse Posted: 25 Mar 2022 09:40 AM PDT  Everything Everywhere All at Once is a movie you have to meet exactly where it is. It is not a subtle film, and it demands that when you watch it, you suspend all your disbelief at the door. As directing duo the Daniels (Swiss Army Man) propel us through a furious multitude of universes, the audience is left gasping… |
| Antarctica’s Conger Ice Shelf Suffers ‘Complete Collapse’ Posted: 25 Mar 2022 09:20 AM PDT  An ice shelf the size of Hong Kong has collapsed in eastern Antarctica, spawning a large iceberg and concerns that unusually warm temperatures in the region might be responsible. |
| EU Regulators Agree to Rein in Big Tech’s Walled Gardens Posted: 25 Mar 2022 09:10 AM PDT  Regulators in the European Union's Parliament reached an agreement on a package of laws aimed at curtailing technology companies' anti-competitive practices late Thursday. |
| 10 Great 2021 Genre Films That Weren't Nominated For Oscars Posted: 25 Mar 2022 09:00 AM PDT  This Sunday, the 94th annual Acadamy Awards will grace your TV screen and with them, another cycle of film achievement comes to a close. Among the night's nominees, the Acadamy rightfully recognized some of the best genre films of the year in various categories. But this slideshow isn't about them. |
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