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The new animated film I Lost My Body tells two parallel stories. One is of a disembodied hand that somehow reanimates, escapes a lab, and ventures out into the world to try to find its owner. The other is of a pizza delivery boy named Naoufel whose life, frankly, sucks. We assume the hand is Naoufel’s but he has two… Read more...

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help. Read more...

New research shows that psilocybin—the psychoactive compound that puts the magic in magic mushrooms—can be made by bioengineered bacteria, highlighting a potential new way of mass-producing the valued chemical. Read more...

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A lot of fans have been waiting for different forms of representation in Star Wars for a long, long time and, it turns out, at least one has already been there for a little while. Read more...

Comic book fans often pit Marvel and DC ’s respective properties against one another because the publishers and the live-action movies based on their IP represent two of the largest corporate titans in the larger entertainment industry , but there are few things more exhausting then fans’ desire to “prove” whether DC or… Read more...

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Reading that there’s a dense, impressive new Star Wars pop-up book coming out is one thing. Actually seeing that book in action is something completely different. And so we present to you an exclusive look at Insight Edition’s Star Wars: A Pop-Up Galaxy . Read more...

While Titans has gotten properly back into the swing of things from a pacing standpoint, there are still moments where the show slips up a little as it’s trying to give each member of its sprawling cast of heroes and villains enough screen time to make their subplots compelling. This week, Titans did it with a… Read more...

Earlier this year, Borderlands fans were devastated to learn that actor Troy Baker would not be reprising his role as Rhys in Borderlands 3 . At the time, publisher Gearbox’s co-founder Randy Pitchford said Baker “turned it down,” but a recent interview with Baker makes things sound more complicated. Read more...

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We also get a better look at Annie Wilkes , the rare character who’s able to blend old-fashioned folksiness (“You don’t know a cockadoodie thing about us!”) with intense menace. And then there’s Tim Robbins’ character, coming in with the ol’ “Somethin’ bad is coming!” Well, of course, it is. It’s Castle Rock ! Read more...

Following the Duffer Brothers hinting at  the promise of more Stranger Thing s , Netflix has dropped the first teaser trailer for the series’ next season and final season. And things are looking grim. Read more...

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The idea of making a sequel to one of the biggest animated films of all time somehow seems more than just “obvious.” “Essential” is likely a better word. And yet, the filmmakers behind Frozen and the upcoming Frozen II say making a sequel wasn’t their first instinct and the road to get there was more than a little… Read more...

Before they were posh, super spies saving the present-day world, the heroes of Fox’s Kingsman franchise were posh in an old-timey way befitting of an era where parachutes were considered cutting-edge technology. The latest trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming Kingsmen prequel,  The King’s Man , is light in the way of… Read more...

Not too long ago, we here at Giz Asks contemplated what might happen if the entire internet shut down at once. One imaginative stumbling block, in playing out the implications of that scenario, was how something like that could happen in the first place. And so—without advocating any of the methods described below, or… Read more...

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What if, after a deadly cyberwar eradicated technology as we know it today, humanity attempted to rebuild our tech-obsessed society through biological means? That’s the futurist premise of Comixology’s latest original graphic novel—and io9 has an exclusive look inside. Read more...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse MRI images could pave the way to earlier identification of people at risk of heart failure and to the development of new treatments.

And that’s not the only horror movie teasing some returns today. USA’s dramatization of the making of Doom finds its masters. Get a look at Apple TV+’s new Ghostwriter series. Plus, what’s to come on the CW’s endless litany of genre shows, and it’s already time to start the rumor train of the next Bond movie after No … Read more...

Elon Musk told CNN that he believes SpaceX Super Heavy Starship could have manned flights in 12-15 months. Elon said he was quite confident about manned Starship flights by the end of 2020 and possibly even 12 months. The SpaceX Dragon 2 system should have hardware for the crew abort test ready by October and the first manned crew hardware by November. The manned crew would fly after a successful crew abort test and after the safety checks for the Dragon 2 crew mission. Elon thinks the manned crew flight (SPX-DM2) could fly in 3-4 months. This would mean the

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Rob Cohen, a director, producer, and screenwriter whose credits include the first Fast and the Furious film and xXx , has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman while she was unconscious. Read more...

Kylo Ren has a crew, and they have a very exacting dress code. Read more...

Jim Bridenstine congratulated SpaceX on Starship and then poked them about the Commercial Crew program being year late. My statement on @SpaceX's announcement tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/C67MhSeNsa — Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) September 27, 2019 NASA technical people and NASA Director Bridenstine know that they could save about $5 billion over the next two years by canceling the Space Launch System and using the flight-proven SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the Orion capsule. Bridenstine told Congress in 2019 that the SLS EM-1 mission (which is delayed into 2021 with SLS) would require two launches: one to place the Orion into orbit the Earth,

We’re drawing nearer to Joker ’s theatrical release, and as we do we’re seeing more theaters across the country respond to the possibility, credible or otherwise, of the film being a possible flashpoint for incel violence. Read more...

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Many fans have recreated old Mario games in different engines or in different styles. But one fan and his young kids are doing something different. They’re creating a totally original Mario game based on the animated segments from the popular Super Mario Bros. Super Show and it looks amazing. Read more...

Gotta love the quiet moments. Especially if you just defeated a supervillain on what was supposed to be your vacation. Read more...

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The main constraint on the Super-Heavy booster is ramping up the production of the Raptor engines. They will need 100 Raptor engines to get to the orbital test. They build one Raptor engine currently every eight days. On 2 months they want to get to one Raptor engine every two days. By Q12020, they want to get to one engine every day. This means the orbital flight would not be until about March, 2020. This would be ahead of the Space Launch System launch which is looking like 2021. This should be ahead of the green run hold down fueled

SpaceX has new renderings of a Mars City using the new Starship design. The main constraint on the Super-Heavy booster is ramping up the production of the Raptor engines. They will need 100 Raptor engines to get to the orbital test. They build one Raptor engine currently every eight days. On 2 months they want to get to one Raptor engine every two days. By Q12020, they want to get to one engine every day. This means the orbital flight would not be until about March, 2020.

Elon Musk describes the various aspects of the greatness of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. Elon Musk started the presentation at 6:28 PST. Elon Musk called the orbital prototype as the most inspiring thing he has ever seen. The point of the presentation is to inspire the public and get people excited about space and the future. Do we want to choose the future where we are on many world and exploring the stars? The critical breakthrough is to make space travel like air travel. We fly the airplane many time. We flew 747s about 30,000 to 100,000 times over

The Joker is having a strange moment right now. A DC icon, one of the most charismatic villains to ever to grace comics and screen, potential incel idol and an incitement to violence? In 2019, he occupies all of these cultural positions, which can make parsing the character himself somewhat hard to parse. This… Read more...

Reading a Chris Ware graphic novel means committing to a cycle of excitement and fatigue. I’m weary before even taking off Rusty Brown ’s plastic shrink wrap, knowing that this brick of a book will be jam-packed with tiny panels chronicling life’s never-ending stream of disappointments. But then the plastic is ripped… Read more...

It’s only a couple months now until The Mandalorian launches on Disney Plus, and to whet our appetites for morally ambiguous space fantasy action we’ve got even more details to go through. Read more...

We’re fans of Karate Kid and its surprisingly interesting YouTube revival around these parts, so it’s particularly saddening to report that Rob Garrison, who played a role in the original Karate Kid and also returned for a short arc on Cobra Kai , has died. Read more...

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Everything about The Addams Family beyond the (admittedly great) casting has confused me. A new animated adaptation of the creepy family? Okay, I get it, but the art style… seems a little off? The plot involves them, uh, going to New Jersey? And there’s been almost no marketing? Every bit of new information that… Read more...

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We’re about to begin the final weekend before Destiny 2 's big expansion, Shadowkeep , launches, and it’s understandable if you’re feeling a little listless. Read more...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Tony Seba of RethinkX on their latest analysis of emerging global technology disruption. The new emerging technology is combining synthetic biology was fermentation to transform agriculture and many aspects of industry. In 2017, RethinkX and Tony Seba put out a report about the transformation of transportation into transportation as a service (Taas). The transportation vision is being realized by Elon Musk and Tesla, Waymo and ridesharing companies. Precision biology will displace, replace or transform agriculture by using designed microorganisms and adapting beer industry fermentation processes to produce food that is identical to milk and meat but without using

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Hocus Pocus may be the perfect Halloween movie , but you always feel like you can have more—in another world, we could have. A few scenes spotted in this trailer have been lost to time, but now a new musical number has brought the Sanderson Sisters back. And there’s hell to pay...at the grocery store. Read more...

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Why send one robot to explore a world when you can send a whole bunch all at once? Such is the thinking behind NASA’s highly conceptual Shapeshifter—a modular, morphing, self-assembling robot capable of deploying several smaller machines. Read more...

Next week is perhaps the most important date in a Star Wars fan’s calendar this year outside, of, well, you know... December 20, 2019 . Because who wants to just see a new Star Wars movie when you can buy all the toys from it months in advance, too? That’s what you’ll be doing for “Triple Force Friday” on October 4—and… Read more...

The latest IPCC report includes a revised projection for sea level rise, upwards by 10 cm to 1.1 metres by 2100.

Released September 28, 1979, sci-fi romance-slash-crime drama Time After Time has a lot of elements that feel quite dated when you watch it today, including some very primitive special effects. But its chilling underlying message still rings true—and its cornier parts make it fun to revisit. Read more...

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Before he sadly passed away last November, the final months of Stan Lee’s life were mired by a seemingly endless back-and-forth of legal entanglements and allegations of elder abuse as various parties sought to control the wealth and intellectual properties of the legendary comics writer. Now, those legal battles are… Read more...

Some of the most distant rocks in our solar system act in a way that suggests there’s some massive object out there we haven’t been able to see. A planet? Maybe. But why not a small black hole? Read more...

Because Sojourner “Jo” Mullein—the Green Lantern at the center of writer N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell’s upcoming series Far Sector —is stationed countless lightyears away from Earth on a strange planet where emotion no longer exists, her humanity is one of the things that most makes her stand out. Read more...