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Shit always goes wrong when you think you're at your most stable. That's what it feels like with any new sport. I've rollerbladed before, but skating is a first, so it takes a bit of getting used to. I'm zipping along, and everything's fine, up until the point I come off the track and roll to a stop. Then I'm flopping...Read more...

While the first teaser for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has got nothin' on the searingly grim trailer for Godzilla Minus One that arrived earlier this week, the Apple TV+ series spawned from Legendary's Monsterverse still looks mighty exciting. Star Kurt Russell narrates, Kong: Skull Island's John Goodman cameos, and a...Read more...

In this round of the Walt Disney Company versus Ron DeSantis, the Mouse House has taken sharper aim at the Florida governor, streamlining its case to focus on allegations revolving around the First Amendment.Read more...

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed's current issue. This month's selection is Money in the Bank" by John Kessel & Bruce Sterling. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed's website. Enjoy!

The One Piece live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's globally renowned manga and anime franchise is being hailed as one of the best to hit screens. But fans eager for more will have to wait-season two is being held up by the hubris of Netflix and the AMPTP at large delaying negotiations with the striking WGA and SAG-AFTRARead more...

Turtle power was on full display in Hollywood Thursday as four icons cemented their place in pop culture history. Literally. Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, aka the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, had their hand prints immortalized outside the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, alongside some...Read more...

Google is trying to step on Apple's toes to keep it from hogging all the limelight with its upcoming iPhone 15 set to unveil next Tuesday, Sept. 12. While Google has its own big Made by Google" event set for Oct. 4 where it's expected to reveal its latest smartphone and wearables, the company has simply said screw...Read more...

Palmer Lucky, the Trump-thumping founder of the Oculus virtual reality headset is diving into the world of autonomous military aircraft. On Thursday, Anduril, Lucky's venture-funded military tech company, unveiled its new AI-enabled, autonomous, fighter-jet-looking aircraft, which the company has dubbed Fury." Anduril...Read more...

Throughout the decades, Spider-Man has swung from one medium to another, each with varying levels of success. While he's proven to be an especially great fit for animation, Marvel's hero has also been no stranger to video games. The various titles that bear his name have been all over the place in terms of quality,...Read more...

Norway's largest gold find of the century" was discovered by 51-year-old Erlend Bore, who bought a metal detector after his doctor told him to get more exercise. Bore unearthed nine gold pendants, three rings, and 10 gold pearls, on the southern island of Rennesoy last month.

In late July, the Aeolus Earth Explorer satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere to burn up as scraps. Its unprecedented controlled reentry was captured through a series of images that show the spacecraft during its tumbling, fiery demise.

The Biden administration officially canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge onWednesday and proposed protections to stop development and protect millions of acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.Read more...

There's a new crop of Looney Tunes in the making at Acme Looniversity led by Babs and Buster Bunny along with friends Hamton, Plucky, and Sweetie-who may look familiar but are getting the reboot treatment in a whole new Tiny Toons show streaming on Max.Read more...

We've known for a while that Hasbro's latest Star Wars crowdfunder-first launched at San Diego Comic-Con this summer-had successfully reached its initial goal to turn the iconic freighter of Rebels and Ahsoka's Hera Syndulla, the Ghost, into a huge new toy. But now the campaign is over-and we know Hera will be...Read more...

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced this week the discovery of four 1,900-year-old Roman swords and a pilum stowed in a cave in Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, on the west bank of the Dead Sea.Read more...

A good way to get the full scope of the current debate surrounding AI is to know the people involved. Time magazine, in all its wisdom, now has its own list of the top 100 figures most important to the AI debate to help us all get to know the players. There are a hell of a lot of AI founders on there, but despite...Read more...

As fans of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time stories know-as do viewers of Prime Video's series adaptation, thanks to a startling season one flashback-its setting only feels like the past. Despite its lack of machines and technology, The Wheel of Time takes place in the future, thousands of years after a magical battle...Read more...

Starlink CEO Elon Musk reportedly worried about his role in the Ukraine War, prompting him to shut down the satellite communications network near Crimea last year, according to an excerpt from a biography written by Walter Isaacson, titled Elon Musk. In the biography, Isaacson reports that Musk ordered engineers to...Read more...

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There's more to car companies than harvesting data about every part of your existence-they're also great at nickel-and-diming you over every feature under the sun. However, in a twist, BMW has announced it's dropping its egregious subscription planfor heated seats in its vehicles.Read more...

Star Trek: Lower Decks has found a lot of comedy in its status quo. No matter how zany the adventure or esoteric a riff on classic Star Trek is on offer week by week, things aboard the USS Cerritos generally have to be back where they started by the end of an episode. But in season four, the show takes a confident...Read more...

In an attempt to reinforce its identity as the youngest military branch, the U.S. Space Force scrapped its original, lengthy mission statement in exchange for a snappy, nine-word phrase that's still hella ambiguous.Read more...

The Lone Star State apparently loves cryptocurrency so much that it's willing to pay mining firms to not do their jobs. One of those mining operations, called Riot Platforms, claims the state's grid operator awarded it $31.7 million in energy credits last month for agreeing to cease operations amid a brutal August...Read more...

Social media algorithms are the key tool we as a public use to navigate the endless stream of internet content-for better or worse. Those algorithms are notoriously biased to typical beauty standards, but perhaps no longer. Pinterest has reportedly done the unthinkable by creating an algorithm that shifts attention...Read more...

The Jedi Order, and specifically the Council that leads it, has made a lot of mistakes throughout its long history, especially in the declining days of the Old Republic. And now, a new Star Wars novel is going to explore one Jedi's attempts to get its members to see just that-with a road trip and a few pirates along...Read more...

Behold the celestial bounty of space. In an image recently taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a proliferation of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 12 shine through interstellar gas and dust, making the entire image glow with activity.Read more...

Cancer cases and deaths in younger people have substantially increased globally over time, new research out this week has found. The study shows that the reported incidence of cancer in people under the age of 50 has climbed between 1990 to 2019. The authors say that dietary and lifestyle habits such as smoking and...Read more...

The first trailer for Eli Roth's Thanksgiving is here and while it certainly promises lots of blood and guts for all audiences, it's also one of the most surprising payoffs to a nearly 20-year-old jokeever.Read more...

A team of researchers recently announced that they've made a breakthrough with a futuristic solution for saving coral reefs from disappearing from our oceans. Deep freezing pieces of coral and then bringing them back to life.Read more...

The Nun II does almost everything right. It continues the story of its predecessor in a logical but exciting way; ups the ante in terms of scares, gore, and stakes; and even adds some interesting mythology to its world. Everything is going so well until... it isn't. If this was a sports movie, you'd say it fumbles at...Read more...

Google's Privacy Sandbox, a controversial set of tools and settings meant to replace third-party cookies, is now on almost every single Chrome browser, according to a company blog post published Thursday. Google says Privacy Sandbox is now available to around 97% of Chrome users, and that number will reach 100% in the...Read more...

A team of scientists in Israel say they've accomplished an incredible feat of biology: The creation of a completely human-like embryo model without the need for a sperm or egg. The synthetic embryos were grown using stem cells instead and appeared to have the same structures and components of a typical human embryo up...Read more...

When bloodsuckers metaphorical and literal descend on revolutionary France, there's only one family you can call: the Belmonts. And if the trailer for Netflix's new Castlevania continuation is anything to go by, the vampire-slaying family is sending their best and most traumatized boy around.

As we officially enter a new age of political smear campaigns created via AI, Google is trying to keep the record clean. The tech titan is now requiring that any AI-generated political ads hosted on its platforms must clearly include a disclaimer saying that the tech was involved.Read more...

The Pet Sematary sequel gets rated. Michelle Yeoh believes in ghosts in a new clip from A Haunting in Venice. Plus, what's coming on Daryl Dixon, and another new Rick and Morty promo dances around the show's Justin Roiland replacement. Spoilers, away!Read more...

Bad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you're probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen's cars reportedly know if you're fastening your seatbelt and how hard you hit...Read more...

The record-breaking summer in the Northern Hemisphere this year might somehow be even more miserable than expected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now warning doctors and the public to watch out for life-threatening infections caused by flesh-eating" waterborne bacteria. While still rare in...Read more...

The hype cycle for the long-awaited Nintendo Switch sequel has officially begun. Nintendo was at the German games conference Gamescom this past month, and behind the curtain, the company was reportedly offering some developers the chance to demo a Switch sequel boasting better graphical capabilities than the company's...Read more...

Update: September 7, 9:06 a.m. ET: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has succeeded in launching the H-IIA rocket, which blasted off yesterday from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. XRISM appears to be on track, with reports of solar acquisition control, data received from ground stations, and solar array deployment.Read more...

Whether you love or hate Google Chrome, you can't deny its name has become synonymous with going online" since its debut in 2008. To celebrate the 15th birthday of the world's most popular browser, Google is showing off a new design of the Chrome browser on the desktop ahead of its rollout. And because Google wants...Read more...

The tech billionaire-backed landgrab in Solano County California might finally be out of the shadows, but the local officials who have finally had the opportunity to speak to the developers say the group simply has no real plan to make good on promises to build a beautiful, sustainable, and exclusive Bay Area tech...Read more...

It took a hurricane in Southern California to make me sacrifice the sleep necessary to binge the entire Child's Play and Chucky franchise in a single weekend-a crucial part of preparing myself to face my biggest childhood fear as part of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando.Read more...

School's back in session, which means-no matter how old you are, or whether or not you're actually returning to a classroom-it's a fine time to immerse yourself in back-to-school horror. This syllabus includes sections on witches, aliens, mind-control, murderous vengeance, and more, all streaming for your convenience.Read more...

Central Chinese government officials are banned from using iPhones in the workplace, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. People familiar with the matter told the outlet that employees were notified of the ban in chat groups or meetings, and are prohibited from bringing iPhones or other foreign devices into...Read more...

There's a lot going on in Baldur's Gate 3: incredibly detailed response options, making friends with your companions, intense battles, and sometimes even-more-intense romance scenes after the battles. Larian Studios really put a lot of depth into BG3, and while the basis for the way the game moves though the world is...Read more...

A secretive launch planned for this week from Florida's Cape Canaveral could be a test of a hypersonic weapon as the U.S. tries to catch up with the speedy missiles of Russia and China.

As the tidal wave of hare-brained AI innovation continues to slam into our society, music is proving to be a battleground. After anAI-generated song called Heart on My Sleeve" mimicked Drake and The Weeknd's vocals and stylings, that same song has been submitted to the Grammys.Read more...

Sonos has revealed the second-gen successor of its portable Bluetooth speaker. The Sonos Move 2 arrives Sept. 20 and promises a whopping 24 hours of playback before requiring a charge.

So far, given its setting, Lower Decks' particular areas of Trek fanservice have focused on the likes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine-give or take the occasional spacetime jaunt to Strange New Worlds. But in its season four premiere, the show is going to be casting its loving eye on the other Trek show of...Read more...

The last few years have seen a significant rise in drug overdose deaths caused by counterfeit prescription pills, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. The percentage of overdose deaths linked to fake drugs has more than doubled between 2019 to 2021, according to the study. Many...Read more...