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The Wendy’s controversy shows Uber-style pricing is coming for everything

In the future, the ideal time to eat a burger won’t be when you’re hungry and really hankering for one. It’ll be the oddest, most awkward hours — late mornings or afternoons, the middle of the night on a Tuesday — the slices of time when prices will be lowest. Not unlike your Uber ride, fast food prices will go up or down depending on demand. At least, this is the world people imagined when fast food chain Wendy’s revealed it would be tinkering with “dynamic pricing,” a broad term that describes any strategy where…

Mariko Tamaki will write Zatanna: Bring Down the House for DC Comics

The books in DC Comics’ Black Label imprint are defined by top-of-their-game writers and artists telling standalone stories too big for continuity at a high production value. And Zatanna: Bring Down the House, coming this summer from Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodríguez, checks all of those boxes with a big marker. Tamaki is one of the most versatile comics writers in the biz these days, crafting everything from multiple multi-award winning queer coming-of-age YA graphic novels to a run on no less than Wonder Woman and…

Elon Musk-owned X introduces ‘Articles’ to post long-form written content, only available for…

Your article will then be live on your profile on the Articles tab. You can also edit the article after publishing, and even delete is altogether, the social media network added.Taking on legacy media, Elon Musk-run X on Friday introduced ‘Articles’ which is a new way to share long-form written content on the platform.Those who are Premium users and pay for X services can now post articles on the platform with stylised text, embedded images and videos. “Articles is a new way to share long form written content on X.…

The Kodansha Humble bundle is the perfect manga starter kit for $25

“Where to start reading manga” may seem like a daunting task, but for the next two weeks, it just got very easy and affordable. Simply start here, with Humble’s Award-Winning (and Nominated) Kodansha bundle, which is jam-packed with several all-timer series and doubles as a sampler of what the medium has to offer. Even within the $25 tier, it’s hard to know where to start, but if I had to pick one it would be Witch Hat Atelier — you can get all 11 volumes of the series currently available in English in this bundle…

When Taylor Swift Took A Jibe At Tina Fey & Amy Poehler For Mocking Her Love Life, “There’s A Special Place In Hell…

When Taylor Swift Took A Jibe At Tina Fey & Amy Poehler For Mocking Her Love Life ( Photo Credit – Instagram ; Facebook ) American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is well known for her genre-spanning discography and artistic reinventions. She is also known for dishing out plenty of jibes to ex-lovers in her songs. However, the country singer once made headlines for taking a jibe at comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The Grammy-winning singer is well known for documenting her personal relationships in her songs,…

Electronics Show Returns to Realism After Self-Driving Bubble Bursts

The age of adventure is being replaced by the realm of reality in the automotive displays at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, once a fantastical flight of fancy that promised a Jetson’s lifestyle was just around the corner. The age of adventure is being replaced by the realm of reality in the automotive displays at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, once a fantastical flight of fancy that promised a Jetson's lifestyle was just around the corner. But now when the show opens Jan. 5,

An ode to AppleCare+: why Apple’s insurance scheme is a must-have for… well, everyone

Breaking an iPhone is never fun. There’s that moment when your stomach plummets, and you feel like the world has just briefly ended. What are you going to do? Where’s the spare phone? How are you going to tell everyone to only contact you on Facebook because you can’t access WhatsApp on your laptop?More importantly, how are you going to repair it?Hopefully, you took out an AppleCare+ policy when you bought it. Otherwise, you’ll be in the same situation as me.What is AppleCare+?(Image credit: Future/ iMore)AppleCare+ is…

Stranger Things 4 Spoiler Roundtable: Ending, Plot, More

After what felt like a lifetime, the fourth season of Stranger Things is now in the books. Split into two parts, which included multiple feature-length episodes, the season saw the kids from Hawkins and beyond pushed to their limits against a terrifying new villain who, actually, isn’t that new at all.Volume two was released over the weekend, bringing the season to a close, so io9's Germain Lussier, Sabina Graves, and Rob Bricken sat down to discuss our thoughts: what we liked, what we didn’t, questions we have, answers

Jon Moisan Quits Skybound Entertainment For… Boom Studios?

| Jon Moisan was an intern at The Weinstein Company and Dark Horse Comics before working in Marvel Comics editorial for six years. But for the last seven years, he has been working at Skybound Entertainment as an Editor. Now, however, he is off. Jon tweeted out the news "So long, @skybound! It's been real." Shawn Kirkham Senior Vice President, Business Development replied "It's been fun dude. Congrats on the new adventure." Jon Moisan reminisced " Man, looking back on the last seven years of books I edited at @skybound,…