Category: Tech
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China’s Out-of-Control Booster Rocket Returns to Earth
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The core stage of a wayward Long March 5B rocket has returned from its short stint in low Earth orbit, disintegrating above the northern coast of Borneo.
The Simpsons Movie Was a Unique, But Inevitable Step for Fox’s Yellow Family
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Is there a family in media who’s persisted quite so much as The Simpsons? Matt Groening’s five-person (and one dog!) family of yellow oddballs has been going on strong since 1989, as long as some of our parents have been married, if not alive altogether. Depending on who you are, time hasn’t entirely been kind to the…
Rick & Morty Season 6 Will Be a Return to Form, Says Justin Roiland
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Every new season of Adult Swim’s Rick & Morty is a big deal, and the same holds true for the upcoming sixth season. The sci-fi animated comedy’s future has been set in stone for years—having a multi-season renewal offers some degree of safety—but there’s still a degree of unpredictability from the show that always…
Avengers Movies are Now the Endgame for MCU Sagas
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The Avengers sub-franchise of the MCU occupies a strange spot in the larger series. Though the original 2012 film was where that first batch of movies was building up to, and ended Phase One, the same couldn’t be said of its sequels. 2015’s Age of Ultron released mid-Phase Two, and though the duology of Infinity War …
Freshman Year is Basically a Spider-Man Season of What If
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The upcoming Spider-Man: Freshman Year cartoon was shrouded in some degree of secrecy since its initial reveal last year, but last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, more information on the show came to light. Initially, it seemed like the cartoon would tell the story of MCU Peter Parker in his early days of heroism, but…
These Companies Know When You’re Pregnant—And They’re Not Keeping It Secret
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In early 2012, the New York Times Magazine put out a cover story about Andrew Pole, a statistician working for Target who was tasked with inventing a way to identify potentially pregnant shoppers, even if those shoppers didn’t want the company to know. The rationale, Pole said, was that moms-to-be are a multi-million…
This Week’s Toy News Asks ‘Why the Long Face?’
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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest fancy toys and merch swinging its way onto your future shelves. This week: The Batman! A friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! A much less friendly dark lord of the Sith! And a very cool take on the classic Power Rangers megazord. Check it out!