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SpaceX, the world leader in rocket launches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny for its workplace practices. A recent safety review performed by Reuters highlights an upsetting trend at the aerospace company. For the second year in a row, injury rates at SpaceX far exceed the industry average. This is according to...Read more...

President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok's owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores.Read more...

Fallout's delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once, meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you've no doubt reached the end-and are longingly pining for season two's arrival. Since that is at least a year away, and probably longer, here are 10 movies to watch now that...Read more...

It's a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his new" vision for the electric car company. Tesla is now focused on building an AI-powered fleet of...Read more...

The chronology of any comic book storyline or character-woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative-is always a complicated affair. But there are few mainstream adaptations with a more convoluted mess of timelines and canons than Fox's X-Men movies. Now, nearly two and a half...Read more...

Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world's first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The recipient is a 54-year-old woman named Lisa Pisano who was diagnosed with terminal kidney disease and heart failure.Read more...

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It's just about halfway to Halloween and Home Depot is ready to start rolling out spooky season decor to celebrate. The store's most viral release-Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton-is consistently hard to find as the holiday gets closer, so with that in mind the popular must-have will be released early as part of this drop.Read more...

Tired of the so-called AI PCs already? Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, haven't even begun to peak. More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs don't get nearly as much limelight as the x86 type. Still, chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to turn your eyes toward its latest Snapdragon chips by promising...Read more...

NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year.

If you have really basic questions about your new AirPods, this guide will help you with everything from connecting them to cleaning them. It also includes some tips for improving sound and customizing controls-that will make the most out of your new Apple earbuds.

Apple's Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what's coming on Chucky season 2, and a new clip from X-Men 97. Spoilers get!

Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA's Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to search for potential evidence of past life," according to the official mission objectives.

A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes.Read more...

Have you seen that photo of a dog attempting to make sweet and passionate love to a robot dog? It's gone viral on sites like Reddit, Instagram, and X. But it's fake. Hopelessly, tragically fake.Read more...

Things have been rough for Spotify. There was anti-vaccine misinformation prominently featured on a Joe Rogan podcast on the app, which garnered quite a lot of criticism, and earlier this month, it also once again raised its prices. The famous music streaming app is also notorious for being anti-artist by severely...Read more...

A recent analysis from advocacy organization Consumer Reports is the latest to highlight the potential threat of pesticides in our produce. It suggests that around 20% of commonly sold fruits and vegetables in the U.S. could contain unsafe levels of pesticides. Given that concerning news, you might be wondering how to...Read more...

The first public beta of Android 15 for the platform's most faithful users rolled out this month. While the operating system version will arrive much later this year-typically right before October's Pixel launch event-it can be fun to try on new features as they're being built out.Read more...

The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Joe Biden said in a statement...Read more...

It's not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too.Read more...

Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals.

After a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon saga finished, but the number didn't quite hit that of the first film.Read more...

At over 13 inches tall, Mondo's take on Bane as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go for the deluxe version.Read more...

Non-compete clauses are a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

We've all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC, everything preinstalled, and you're so excited you're practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You're so engrossed that you forget there's a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. It's Windows 11, a mammoth operating...Read more...

Axon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser, has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops automate their police reports.Read more...

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With Fallout's success and season-two renewal, it's been seeming ever more unlikely that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy would get a chance to revisit their previous sci-fi series, Westworld-cancelled by HBO after four seasons, despite talk about how season five had already been plotted out. Well, here's another nail in...Read more...

Elon Musk is currently battling government officials in Australia who are trying to force X to remove a video of a man being stabbed last week. An Australian court has ordered the video removed globally rather than just having it geo-blocked in Australia. And while Gizmodo has been extremely critical of Musk's poor...Read more...

It's not like you didn't already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But the current pricepoint that's rumored...Read more...

The deodorant of the future might be possible thanks to viruses that hunt down stink-making bacteria. Scientists in Japan believe they've discovered a chemical weapon sourced from bacteriophages that can target a species of bacteria known for contributing to body odor emitted by our armpits.Read more...

House of the Dragon returns in June, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight-aka Dunk and Egg"-is moving full speed ahead. But despite the hunger for Game of Thrones projects, HBO is still being selective about its spin-offs. Among the shows left in the lurch: that Naomi Watts-starring prequel, the Jon...Read more...

Many of us have moved on from the Vision Pro less than three months after its buzzy launch, but Apple can not. The company slashed its 2024 sales expectations for the Vision Pro to nearly half what the market expected for this year, according to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Tuesday. As initial hype fades,...Read more...

The best trailers are the ones that tell you absolutely nothing and that's exactly what you get with the first trailer for Blink Twice. Directed by Zoe Kravitz and starring a who's who of awesome actors, it's some kind of murder mystery cult thing that's either supernatural or just weird rich white people stuff. It's...Read more...

The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year, is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product can be yours for a mere...Read more...

Deadpool & Wolverine's new trailer yesterday didn't really give fresh details on what the film's going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Logan's team-up. But it did give us our first really good look at one of the several villains the movie is playing with-and one of the most...Read more...

Fallout's first season took the bold step of jumping a good chunk beyond the events of any game in the beloved post-apocalyptic RPG series so far, to tell its own story. But that didn't stop fans of one of the more beloved entries in the gaming franchise-the iconic Obsidian spinoff, Fallout: New Vegas-from freaking...Read more...

Apple has set the date of May 7 for its next hardware reveal event. This show will focus on the iPad, particularly the new tablet with an OLED screen.Read more...

Star Wars: Andor: The Complete First Season is io9's most-coveted among the Disney+ series getting collector's edition Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases April 30-no offense to Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier or Moon Knight, or Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, which are also part of the drop.Read more...

On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat rare and/or...Read more...

We're quickly approaching the advent of Google's annual spring developer conference, and as a result, rumors of the company's next mid-range smartphone are loudly percolating. What will the Pixel 8a look like? Will it arrive soon? Will it offer more RAM at its supposedly slightly higher price point? No one knows...Read more...

Everyone's a little freaked out about AI right now-the ramifications of unregulated tech bro start up culture smashing into industries across the board, from journalism, to science, to entertainment, being turned upside down by the hot new trend. But together, Jennifer Lopez and Netflix boldly ask in Atlas the...Read more...

A 28-year-old motorcyclist died in Washington State on Friday afternoon because a dipshit Tesla driver rear-ended him at speed. A Snohomish man, 56, was commuting in his 2022 Tesla Model S when he activated the car's camera-based advanced driver assist system and according to his statements to police, began looking...Read more...

By now, I'm assuming that we've made our way through all eight episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's The 3 Body Problem (and by we, I mean sci-fi nerds). The series is packed with science-much of it way over the top-but it grounds itself in quantum mechanics and astrophysics.Read more...

It's been 23 years since Brian Helgeland gave us A Knight's Tale-and the director's been thinking about ways it could've continued ever since. But once he settled on an idea, he apparently went to Netflix to make the pitch... only to find that the streamer's algorithmic overlords disagreed.Read more...

If you were hoping that all your cultish rituals and stuck voodoo dolls would make the iPhone FineWoven cases meet an untimely end, then you don't know Apple. After one Apple tipster asserted that the maligned iPhone cases would soon be as dead as the Dodo, we may instead be looking at a whole new slate of case...Read more...

Sebastien Vaniek keeps teasing his Evil Dead spinoff. Get a new look at Dakota Fanning's creepy new horror, The Watchers. James Gunn has a Creature Commandos update. Plus, what's to come on Chucky. Spoilers, away!

Microsoft's AI chief said those building AI should make sure it's easy for the public to comprehend it-and offered his own analogy to help do so.

Three teens who allegedly stole high-end cars in Australia last week have been charged with the crimes you'd expect anyone to face for stealing property, according to a new report from the Sydney Morning Herald. But two of the teens are also being charged under a new law that criminalizes posting about your crimes on...Read more...

Former President Donald Trump could pocket more than $1 billion in paper wealth by the end of the day Tuesday.Read more...