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Scientists and conservationists are working to observe and save coral reefs off the coast of Florida after a year of heat waves and alarming ocean temperatures.Read more...

Dark rises, and light to meet it-so when Ahsoka Tano finds out these god damn Imperials won't stay gone, it's a good job she's got plenty of friends on her Rebels rolodex to call in some favors.Read more...

On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morganand Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde" after they were linked to the 2016 theft of $4.5 billion in crypto from the Hong Kong-based exchange...Read more...

Strange New Worlds' musical episode was a great episode of Star Trek, but it was also a humdinger of a musical-a soundtrack laden with a frankly distressing number of earworms. And now you can listen to it without having to queue up Paramount+.Read more...

In the latest chapter of Elon Musk's saga to take over the world with corporations named after the letter X," the billionaire tech tycoon just snagged a coveted URL: AI.com.

Final Destination's Jeffrey Reddick says the sixth film is ready to enter production-as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike comes to an end. Dracula strikes in even more footage from Last Voyage of the Demeter. Plus, you're not ready for the first details about Riverdale's final episode. To me, my spoilers!

Security breaches rose by a shocking 156% globally from the first quarter of 2023 to quarter two, according to a report published by VPN service SurfShark on Tuesday. As hacking and security leaks become more prevalent so too does the rate at which the breaches occur.Read more...

When io9 interviewed Danny and Michael Philippou-the siblings behind Talk to Me, the summer's scariest movie-they described the mythology bible" they assembled to keep track of the story's many creepy spirits. Now, it seems they also picked up their cameras to create additional contextual material.Read more...

Rom-com Elemental-initially a disappointment for Pixar and Disney-has continued to rack up money at the box office, and now the sleeper hit has a new income stream in its near future: home viewers. Peter Sohn's animated tale will soon arrive on digital, followed by a physical release, and it's bringing tons of extras...Read more...

When mutantkind established its own sovereign nation on Krakoa, it established three new tenants for the newly-unified species to live by: Make More Mutants, Murder No Man, and Respect This Sacred Land. For the most part, give or take a few loopholes, the Krakoan Age was defined by these tenets until last week's ...Read more...

Jack Quaid is not going flame on!" any time soon.Read more...

Nothing, the company behind the second-gen, see-through,light-up smartphone that's generated positive user reviews since its debut last month, has announced a new brand called CMF by Nothing. In a quarterly community update video, Nothing's co-founder and CEO, Carl Pei, explains that CMF by Nothing will be focused on...Read more...

It's peak summer in the U.S. and spotted lanternflies have graduated into full-grown adults that are flapping about in all their spotty glory. Another year of sighting these winged insects means another year for us to do our part in squishing lanternflies and eliminating them from our ecosystems.Read more...

What's the point of an app if you can't make money on it? Such is the thought process of Twitter owner Elon Musk, as the first part of his grand plan to turn the bird app into the everything app" will start with transforming the site into yet another stock trading platform.Read more...

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Legendary Warner Bros. icons get reimagined by 10 global artists in a new collection for WB 100, marking the studio's 100th anniversary.Read more...

As with many inquiries to Apple's helper bot, asking Siri to read my lips," comes back with a I'm not sure I understand" message. After all, Apple has so far eschewed talking much about modern AI systems. Why would the voice recognition service also want to be staring at me like HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey?Read more...

You don't become one of the largest tech companies on the planet without leaving a trail of artifacts in your wake. While many of Apple's former products and ventures may have been lost to time, others have been scrounged up by antique collectors and enthusiasts to be auctioned off for some huge returns. Everything...Read more...

Will this work/Who can say?/We're gonna sing it/anyway!" An interlude in the climactic song of Star Trek's first ever musical episode-and an underlying thesis that guides it as it swings for one of the boldest ideas the franchise has ever tried... and by god, does it nail it.

Remember when the company once called Facebook tried to convince the world to spend $300 on a pair of camera-equipped Ray-Bans capable of snapping photos of people while they weren't looking? Neither did we, really, but that hasn't stopped Meta from moving forward with a pricey multi-year plan to roll out new...Read more...

The makers of two popular but off-label weight loss drugs are now being sued over complications allegedly linked to their use. This week, a Louisiana woman filed a complaint against the companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, arguing that they have misled patients about the risk of severe gastrointestinal side effects...Read more...

Colorado-based company Voyager Space is collaborating with Europe's Airbus to build a commercial space station in low Earth orbit that will succeed the International Space Station (ISS) following its retirement.Read more...

There's some good news for those reluctant to carry a folding smartphone without an accessible safety net. Samsung has partnered with Asurion to convert existing uBreakiFix locations into specialized Samsung repair shops. By the end of 2023, the company says it will will equip 50 stores around the U.S. with the proper...Read more...

If I were to sit here and spew out every single thing that happens in Meg 2: The Trench, you'd probably get very excited about it. Purely as a list of bullet points, the film has everything you'd want in a movie about big, killer sharks: bigger killer sharks, unfathomable action scenes, terrifying new creatures,...Read more...

With as many classes and subclasses as there are in Dungeons & Dragons' current edition, trying to find balance for all of them is inevitably going to end up with some being left behind. While Monk as a class is one of the game's most interesting, one version of them has never quite hit its potential-but that could...Read more...

When The Mandalorian walked onto Disney+, Star Wars fans knew nothing about him. When Cassian Andor showed up on the streamer, most knew where he ended up, but no one knew how he got there. Both shows had a blank slate quality that, at least at the start, made them accessible to Star Wars fans of any kind. The next...Read more...

A group of researchers has discovered a technique to jailbreak a Tesla's infotainment system, unlocking Full Self-Driving, heated seats, and other paid features for the low price of zero dollars.Read more...

In 2023, artists are still finding ways to connect with their fans. After a concertgoer threw a drink at a Cardi B performance last week, Cardi B retaliated by throwing her microphone back. Now, that microphone is apparently up for auction on eBay.

A massive outburst from the Sun was felt across three worlds in a rare event that could help protect astronauts from harmful radiation during future missions.Read more...

In a stunning display of not seeing the forest for the trees, yesterday's Q2 earnings call for Warner Bros. saw the studio remark on the current impact of the ongoing dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. The good news: they of course hope the strikes will end soon. The bad? Well, it's not bad for Warner Bros., as...Read more...

Paizo, the games company that created fantasy tabletop RPG Pathfinder, announced at Gen Con that it is actively updating sci-fi TTRPG Starfinder. The first playtest is actually available now. It will be published under the ORC license and will use the three-action economy system, which will allow Starfinder to be...Read more...

A groundbreaking demonstration by the European Space Agency (ESA) suggests it's possible to deorbit satellites safely and in a reasonably controlled manner, even for those not originally designed for such maneuvers.

Buenos Aires in Argentina saw an especially hot start to this August, and temperatures spiked above 30 degrees Celsius throughout the capital for the first time in years.Read more...

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) reported an increased drop in subscribers since it rebranded its streaming service to Max earlier this year, the company said in its quarterly report on Thursday. The company lost 1.8 million subscribers in its second quarter, bringing it down to a total of 95.8 million subscribers from...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 The Blade and the Bloodwright" by Sloane Leong. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGHTSPEED's website. Enjoy!

Gone are the days of collecting pay stubs, receipts, and government forms...hopefully. For the first time, the IRS will give taxpayers the option to go paperless for the 2024 tax season ahead of a more widespread digitization effort for the 2025 season.Read more...

We're getting closer and closer to a world where we might be able to punch Mark Zuckerberg... virtually, of course. That's because a UFC-like experience is coming to the Meta Quest through a simulated stadium-side experience.

George Romero's final Living Dead script is now in development. Get another good look at the latest cinematic take on Godzilla. Harley Quinn's producers remain uncertain about the future of the show. Plus, a musical look at today's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Spoilers, away!Read more...

Richard Branson's space tourism venture is set to launch its second commercial trip to suborbital heights in less than two weeks but the company is not too optimistic about the revenue generated by its private orbital tours.Read more...

Nobody has been trimming the hedges of Google and Apple's walled gardens. I should know. I've straddled the hedgerows separating the iOS and Android ecosystems and had my nethers pricked by some oddly-placed thorns.Read more...

Alienware has not been the type of company to shy away from outlandish, expensive, and sometimes gaudy case designs. That being said, Alienware is trying something a little more quaint compared to previous years, as the latest in its Aurora mid-sized desktop PCs, the R16, now features a boxier design that the company...Read more...

When Pixar's Elemental opened in June to under $30 million on its first weekend, most Hollywood types considered it dead on arrival. And why wouldn't they? Pixar hadn't had a hit in years-largely due to the pandemic, but still-and after releasing several titles on Disney+, most assumed the once infallible animation...Read more...

The ongoing feud continues: Ron DeSantis has doubled down on denying Disney's First Amendment and constitutional rights through the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.Read more...

When Marvel relaunched the Star Wars comics line, the world was a simpler place. Lucasfilm had just rebooted its official continuity, there was room for new stories, new insight into familiar faces, new opportunities to flesh out the space between the Star Wars movies. And now, we come to this: zombie droids.Read more...

Ghostface will have a new master for Scream 7. Radio Silence, the directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who helmed the two most recent Scream films, won't be returning for the next installement. Instead, in their place is Christopher Landon, the horror veteran who directed the Happy Death Day...Read more...

Agricultural officials in California placed parts of Los Angeles County under a produce quarantine last week after several invasive Tau fruit flies were discovered.

Scientists in Japan may be at the start of a truly monumental accomplishment: a vaccine that can slow or delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease. In preliminary research released this week, the vaccine appeared to reduce inflammation and other important biomarkers in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's-like...Read more...

The Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the most influential hacktivist groups on the web, announced plans Wednesday to launch an end-to-end encrypted protocol that can be used for app development. cDc is calling its new tool Veilid and, from the initial descriptions, it sounds pretty friggin' cool. On the group's website,...Read more...

Does your smartphone feel like it's too smart for you? Try Nokia. The company unveiled two new phones Wednesday, and they aren't less worthy for their lack of apps. The fact that they're so light on distractions might be what entices you to one. They're also great as a secondary phone if you have two numbers but want...Read more...

The Expanse-both the beloved Prime Video series, and the beloved book series by James S.A. Corey (authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)-may be over, but the story lives on in new video game The Expanse: A Telltale Series. Its story focuses on fan-favorite character Camina Drummer, and Telltale has just released a fun...Read more...