Future Stories

It’s not even September yet, but Halloween season is here. It’s been here. Who isn’t ready for spooky festivities to make the real world feel not so glum? Journey with us to Target (of all places) to find the decor that has most embraced 2020's nightmare vibes, and might just inspire some nightmares of its own. Read more...

Waze, Google’s driving and traffic app, is letting users drive with Kevin Conroy, the best Batman voice , as their personal navigator beginning today. Read more...

$100 off the Original Casper Mattress | Casper | Promo Code KINJA100 $200 on a Nova or Wave Mattress | Casper | Promo Code KINJA100 10% off Your Next Mattress | Casper | Promo Code COMFORT! Read more...

Plenty of apps currently allow you to sync up with a buddy and stream a movie or series simultaneously, creating a kind of cinema-at-home experience until it’s safe for us to return to theaters. As of yet, Disney has yet to introduce an official, in-app watch party tool for its service Disney+, but it may be exploring… Read more...

The McElroy family host one of the biggest tabletop RPG podcasts in the world, The Adventure Zone —and in recent years their content creation empire has expanded to best-selling  comic book adaptations . But they apparently did so under the auspices of requiring guest artists to work under terrible contracts. Read more...

The back-to-school sale season is coming to a close, but fear not: That just means it’s time for Labor Day sales to begin. Luckily, HP has another banger batch of bargains to peruse with its own Labor Day Sale . Right now, you can snag a new Windows laptop for desktop for as low as $400 direct from HP, with larger… Read more...

Intel is working on spin qubit quantum computer technology. Spin qubit transistors would be about the same size as existing CMOS transistors. The spin qubits would have the potential to have comparable density to the existing traditional computer chips. In April, 2020, Intel, in collaboration with Qutech, published a paper in Nature demonstrating the successful control of “hot” qubits, the fundamental unit of quantum computing, at temperatures greater than 1 kelvin. The research also highlighted individual coherent control of two qubits with single-qubit fidelities of up to 99.3%. Spectrum IEEE interviewed Intel’s Jim Clarke, Intel Director of Quantum Hardware. Jim

Chadwick Boseman, one of the best actors of this generation, passed away over the weekend at age 43 due to colon cancer . He was taken too soon, too suddenly, and his loss has been felt everywhere. Read more...

Intel's Chief Architect, Raja Koduri, has presented a roadmap for increasing the number of transistors able to fit on a chip by a factor of 50.

A breed of wild dog known for its lyrical sounds may not be as extinct as we thought, according to a new paper out Monday. The study details genetic evidence suggesting that the New Guinea singing dog—thought to have only existed in captivity for the past 50 years—is still alive in the wilds of Indonesia. The authors… Read more...

The Umbrella Academy has already jumped from the comic book panel to the small screen, with season two of Netflix’s show now streaming. Now, it’s The Umbrella Academy   Game thanks to Studio 71 Games. We had a chance to test out an early version of the card game and it’s off to a promising start, but there are some… Read more...

KN95 Masks (40-Pack) | $39 | MorningSave Read more...

Take Excellent Adventure , tie in Bogus Journey , shove them through time as well as a modern lens, and you’ve got Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted Face the Music , the very funny, very moving, very fitting third film in the saga. It is most triumphant, with only a sprinkle of heinous. Read more...

Netflix has always stood out from many of its competitors by eschewing an ad-supported model since its inception, no matter how hard its investors begged the company to consider otherwise. They’re still very much no going that route, but a “free” version of the service exists now—sorta. Read more...

Netflix has always stood out from many of its competitors by eschewing an ad-supported model since its inception, no matter how hard its investors begged the company to consider otherwise. They’re still very much no going that route, but a “free” version of the service exists now—sorta. Read more...

Star Trek ’s first foray to the box office is a strange beast —a gorgeous, haunting exploration of the franchise’s love of the cosmos wrapped up in an overwrought, over-long plot. So it’s perhaps a good thing that a new making-of book puts the spotlight on what works about Star Trek: The Motion Picture : the art behind … Read more...

Samsung 82" Class 8 Series LED 4K Smart TV | $1,400 | Best Buy Read more...

Movies are slowly trickling back into theaters, but a far safer option is to pick up one of September’s new books instead. And it’s a ridiculously bountiful month, with witches, warriors, time travelers , ghosts, robots, aliens, monsters, and space pirates to fire up your imagination without needing to leave the house. Read more...

Christian Dior’s haute couture collection for the Spring/Summer 1992 season was not genre-defining per se. Named In Balmy Summer Breezes, it was “a very feminine collection, for a Parisian woman feeling the Parisian breeze, its colors and its flowers,” as the creative director Gianfranco Ferré told the Italian press.… Read more...

It was a simple request: I’d say the words “Demon Bear,” and the cast of The New Mutants would tell me what pops into their heads. The results, as you can see above, were amazing. Read more...

A Razer gaming accessories Gold Box , a $54 mini projector , a Nintendo Switch copy of Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection , a Gooloo 2000A jump starter , a WFH (Wine for Home) bundle , a KN95 mask 40-pack , and a month-long Ulta sale lead Monday’s best deals. Read more...

Oh, floating Skarsgårds. That can’t be good . Read more...

This interview discusses plot points from the latest episode of Lovecraft Country, “Holy Ghost.” Read more...

Peyton Reed says that Hope and Scott will still be an equal pairing in Ant-Man 3 . Karl Urban continues to have hope to return to Mega-City One. John DiMaggio discusses the progress of Disenchantment ’s third season. Plus, explore the stuntwork of Mulan   and what’s to come on Lovecraft Country . Spoilers away! Read more...

Netflix and Mike Flanagan’s followup to the fantastically spooky The Haunting of Hill House has just released its first teaser trailer. You are welcome to step into The Haunting of Bly Manor . If you dare... Read more...

By the end of this decade, the number of active satellites in orbit around Earth has reached nearly 60,000 – a 75-fold increase since the start of the century.

Corsair Anti-Fray Cloth Mouse Pad | $22 | Amazon Read more...

Time to walk through the door. On the other side of the door? Lots of crying. Read more...

Remember the days when the iPod had a Click Wheel? If you said yes, then you probably felt like I did when Macaulay Culkin tweeted that he was 40 this week. All jokes aside, Apple is apparently having a nostalgic moment as well, and acting on it. Read more...

2020 seems like a good year to take up new hobbies. Let’s take that nice, collectible action figure collection you might have. Why not make it a bit more impressive? Read more...

1-Year PlayStation Plus Membership | $29 | CDKeys Read more...

Considering, y’know, the coronavirus. Read more...

At some point, it starts to feel like maybe setting firm release dates for movies during a global pandemic is just not a good idea. But here we are, at it again. Read more...

Today Ubisoft announced it will remove raised fist imagery from the opening cinematic of its new mobile game, Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad , following widespread criticism that the game’s intro plays on right-wing conspiracies about the Black Lives Matter movement. Read more...

An even better deal on PlayStation Plus , a whole lot of hand sanitizer , an extra large mouse pad , The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening , and more are Sunday’s best deals. Read more...

If you’ve come to Lev Grossman from his most popular work , The Magicians series of novels, his newest is going to be something of a departure. The Silver Arrow is his first middle-grade book, a story of an 11-year-old girl named Kate and an enchanted train given to her as a gift by her eccentric uncle. But even though… Read more...

In this video, Elon Musk demonstrates a prototype brain–computer interface chip – implanted in a pig – that his company Neuralink has been working on. The device could one day be used by humans to augment their abilities.

As great as the Karate Kid sequel show Cobra Kai is—let’s face it, it got buried on YouTube. Sure, everyone watches and uses YouTube, but most of them don’t pay to watch its original content. Now the show has made the move to Netflix and it feels like a coming-out party. Audiences from all over can finally see what… Read more...

When someone first starts playing a long-running video game, a ritual begins. Friends who’ve spent considerably more time with the game immediately start asking “Have you gotten to [part that is so iconic as to have become revered]?” You reply “No” repeatedly, but that only builds anticipation. Will the moment live up… Read more...

Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad (Black) | $80 | Amazon Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad (White) | $90 | Amazon Read more...

Putting its money where its big mouth is, Netflix has followed through on recasting Jenny Slate in Big Mouth. Read more...

We thought nothing could possibly be worse than shelling out increasingly more expensive premium-video-on-demand costs, as with recent releases like Trolls World Tour and Mulan. Well, how about paying per person for tickets to watch a movie from your own freaking living room? Read more...

If there’s anyone who can pull that off, it’s Nicolas Cage. Read more...

Neuralink is recruiting for great engineers to make brain repair affordable and reliable. They implanted brain read-write devices into brains in pigs. They have received emergency FDA approval in July and will soon implant into humans in clinical trials. They need chip designers, software people, product designers and robotics people. The team has 100 people now and eventually, they will have 10,000 people. The sensors are like little microphones that “listen” for brain spikes. Brain spikes are action potentials in neurons that are the main means of communication in neurons. The goal is to make it faster, safer, smaller with

A bundle of masks for kids , $15 bluetooth earbuds , an always useful generator , God of War for under $15 , and more are Saturday’s best deals. Read more...

Trying to make sense of comics continuity at the best of times requires offering up a tiny little part of your brain to be smushed to gooey smithereens in the mortar and pestle of comic book publishing tomfoolery . But friends, I fear trying to make sense of Marvel’s newest tango with the world of Fortnite has done… Read more...

The Associated Press has just revealed actor Chadwick Boseman has passed away from cancer at just 43 years old. Read more...

1. It would be cool. Read more...

Top Pick:   Dreams (PS4) Read more...

Since the Eddie Murphy disaster, it feels like there have been about 999 tries to adapt iconic Disney ride  The Haunted Mansion into a movie. If so, maybe lucky 1,000 will be the ticket. Read more...

That ear-splitting screech you hear, that’s me screaming about new Dragon Age 4 information. While the 4-minute short played during yesterday’s Gamescom opener didn’t reveal any gameplay, story, or character information, nevertheless the keenest of Dragon Age stans (i.e. me) will have caught more than a few hints… Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the best in plastic nonsense you can buy on the internet. Except it’s not all plastic this week: we have a suitably ludicrous crystal baby, a die-cast cyborg, and then...okay, quite a bit of the regular ol’ plastic stuff actually. Check it out! Read more...

Another weekend, another lost convention . Star Wars Celebration might have been canceled this year, but the Friday gif party is here to, well, celebrate everything Star Wars . Grab your lightsaber and let’s begin! Read more...

Razer Mamba Wireless Mouse | $54 | Amazon Read more...

The unusual placement of a sword found in a Viking grave suggests the weapon was brandished by a southpaw warrior, in what is an unusual discovery. Read more...

What if Star Trek: Lower Decks ...but The   X-Files ? Read more...