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Last Call: Amazon's Most Popular Devices Are Back On Sale For Mother's Day
Update 5/13: These deals will go away come Mother’s Day, so take advantage while you still can.
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Saturday's Best Deals: Target, Digital Magazines, Last-Minute Mother's Day Gifts and More
$4 yearly digital magazine subscriptions, Target rugs, last-minute Mother’s Day gifts, and more lead Saturday’s best deals.
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New Poster Gives a First-ish Look at Okja's Titular Creature
Okja, Bong Joon-Ho’s first movie since Snowpiercer, is definitely shrouded in mystery. Is it a horror film, or a fairy tale— or hell, is it both? What is Tilda Swinton’s character up to? And what the hell does Okja actually look like? Well, the last question gets a sort-of answer, with the latest poster for Netflix’s…
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We're Ignoring Women Astronauts' Health At Our Peril
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s 7pm, and the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, which was packed with investors, aerospace tycoons, and scientists just hours ago, has dwindled to a dedicated few. It’s a very different crowd than the folks who came earlier in the day to watch Buzz Aldrin and other space veterans…
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An Alarming Number of Parents Named Their Sons 'Kylo' Last Year
On the one hand, whiny, squealing newborn infants being named after whiny, squealing wannabe Sith Lord Kylo Ren is an oddly appropriate legacy for the character. On the other, whyyyyyy?
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UnReal Estate Brings Popular Culture Locations to Life Through Art
The places that characters frequent in movies or TV often become characters themselves. Homes, hideouts, workplaces, these locations can often be as important to your love of something as the fictional people who dwell in them.
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Hell Yes, The Exorcist Is Getting a Second Season
The Exorcist was one of the best surprises on TV last year—if you’re a fan of pull-no-punches horror shows with compelling characters and gloriously gory special effects. Season one wrapped up in December, and Fox has been keeping the faithful waiting to hear if it would return. Good news, demon peeps!
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The Director's Cut of Marvel's Vision Is Full of Even More Gorgeous Art
Part of what made Marvel’s Vision series one of 2015's best comics was artist Gabriel Hernandez Walta’s striking illustrations of the Vision family struggling to acclimate to suburban domesticity. If writer Tom King brought Vision to life, it was Walta that gave the series its soul.
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Sarah Shahi's Near Future VR Thriller Reverie Is Heading to NBC
Person of Interest’s Sarah Shahi is headlining NBC’s latest series order, a scifi thriller about a woman tasked with rescuing users who are trapped in an addictive, immersive VR program. At least she already has experience working with advanced, sinister technologies, right?
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Here's Everyone Who's Staying and Leaving This Once Upon a Time Madhouse
Once Upon a Time is in a bit of a transition, and that’s putting it mildly. As the show gets ready to close out season six, with a just-announced seventh season on the way, we’ve learned that a bunch of the actors will not be coming back next year. Here’s everyone who’s still on board the OUAT train... and who’s…
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Alden Ehrenreich's Han Solo Hair Is So on Point
Hair alert! io9 is back with all your breaking pop culture hair news, this time concerning our brand new Han Solo.
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The Ultimate Cosplayer Built a Working Version of Batman's Grappling Hook Gun
Probably best known for his functional electromagnetic Captain America shield replica, YouTube’s The Hacksmith and his team spent the past six months designing, building, and re-building a working Batman grappling hook gun that makes it extra easy to escape awkward cosplay conventions.
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Steven Universe Sets Out to Forge His Own Destiny
This week’s Stevenbomb of new Steven Universe episodes dropped without a clever name alluding to its overarching theme and, in a way, that was the perfect move because things are changing in Beach City. For everyone.
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court Is the Dumbest Arthurian Legend Ever Told
There’s a King Arthur movie out there with a cast that includes Kate Winslet and Daniel Craig. However, neither of them are the stars, and the lead fights evil with a Discman. Twice. Welcome to A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, the dumbest Arthurian legend ever told.
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Costume Designer Ane Crabtree On Creating The Handmaid's Tale's Ghastly, Gorgeous Dystopia
If you’re watching Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, nothing sends a chill down the spine like the visage of Elisabeth Moss, Alexis Bledel, or any number of Handmaids obscured by the “wings” of lily-white bonnets and bedecked in ominous, hooded red capes. (If you’re not, weeze a…
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An Incredibly Cool Mecha Godzilla, and More of the Best Toys We've Seen This Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's roundup of the merchandise most likely to burn a hole in our wallets this week. Today we’ve got a Boba Fett-inspired Nerf blaster, some retro Batman action figures, a cool way to build your own Lego Transformers, and an alarmingly adorable Xenomorph plushie.
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New Board Game The Captain Is Dead Is All About Surviving a Scifi Horror Scenario
The captain’s been killed, the engines are dead, and aliens are at the front door just waiting to come in and make a bloody mess. New board game The Captain Is Dead is basically what you get when you fast-forward to the final disastrous minutes of any Alien movie.
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More New Rumors About Doctor Who's Next Doctor
Another day, another rumor about the identity of Peter Capaldi’s replacement on Doctor Who. But an intriguing new report from the Radio Times seems to offer a comprehensive update on Who’s road to the 13th Doctor, and there’s some new names in the mix.
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Dunkirk-Style Trailer for 'Battle of the Bastards' Proves How Damn Cinematic Game of Thrones Is
Game of Thrones is lauded for its unique fantasy world and the characters that live within it, but sometimes it’s good to step back and truly appreciate how gorgeous the show is.
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Giant Sea Monster Washes On Shore Because World Is Ending
While many of us envisioned the world going out in a wicked blaze of glory, sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the way things will go. Instead, we have to settle for Ted Cruz, the other horsemen of the apocalypse, and this massive beast that just washed up on the shore of Indonesia’s Maluku province.
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