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On Wednesday, China published new draft regulations to monitor the amount of time minors spend on the internet each day. The Cyberspace Administration of China's (CAC) proposal introduces a minor mode," which would restrict the type of content the minor sees, depending on their age, and will limit their mobile usage...Read more...

This month marks the 10th anniversary of The World's End-the final entry in the Cornetto Trilogy of films directed by Edgar Wright starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. That was the last time Pegg and Wright, who also co-wrote the films, worked together on a project, and according to Pegg, that'll change in the near...Read more...

U.S. Space Command finally has a permanent home in Colorado after President Joe Biden succeeded in reversing a decision by the former administration to relocate the military branch to Alabama.Read more...

Microsoft and Discord want your friends to tear apart your gaming skills, now from the comfort of your home. Soon, Xbox players will be able to stream their gameplay from the Xbox Series X/S as well as the Xbox One to friends on Discord with a simple button press on the Discord app.Read more...

Objectively, Slotherhouse is an incredible title for a horror movie. The combination of phrases instantly clues you into what it's about, even if you can't actually fathom your thought process to be accurate. Is this a movie about a house where a sloth kills a bunch of people?" you think. And the answer is Yes, it...Read more...

July is supposed to be a hot summer month for the northern hemisphere, but last month was especially hot even for mid-summer. According to a new report released by science nonprofit Climate Central this week, climate change has made this July hotter for billions of people around the globe.Read more...

Before anyone says anything-no, you cannot yet stream Tommy Wiseau's Big Shark. Still a theater-only situation with that one. But there are plenty of other movies out there featuring ridiculously large sea creatures, with hapless humans scrambling to survive them. With Ben Wheatley's The Meg 2: The Trench arriving...Read more...

The dual strikes of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA unions have highlighted the need for solidarity across the swaths of workers represented in them-and the necessity of their highest-profile members to support the rights needed by the lowest. And now, at least some of them are stepping up.

Artificial intelligence could be as good as two human radiologists at reviewing breast cancer scans, a new study shows. The trial, published in The Lancet Oncology, revealed that AI could reduce the amount of time doctors spend reading mammograms in half, and early testing found it could alert doctors to more breast...Read more...

If you left Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem before its end credit scene, turn off your phone, get back in your car, and head back to the theater. What you missed was not just a tease for the future of the franchise, but a crucial ending to the film's story.Read more...

The feud between YouTuber James Donaldson, more commonly known as MrBeast, and ghost kitchen company Virtual Dining Concepts continues to rage on. After MrBeast filed a lawsuit against the company's poor performance in scaling up MrBeast Burger, Virtual Dining Concepts is now accusing him of greed and bullying.Read more...

Peoples of Middle-earth, take heed: the One Ring has a new master, not dark but beautiful, and terrible as the dawn, treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love him, and despair.

A team of paleontologists has announced the discovery of an Eocene-era whale it believes may be the heaviest animal to ever live, surpassing the extant blue whale in mass.Read more...

James Gunn and Peter Safran are ready to relaunch the DC cinematic universe-helmed by a new, younger version of the Man of Steel, and a new Batman to go alongside Matt Reeves' take. But for all the newness, at least one current DC start insists they're sticking around.Read more...

A few weeks after the Titan submersible from OceanGate imploded, killing the five passengers on board, news is still trickling in about the bizarre history of the company. Leaked emails now reveal NASA's reaction after the implosion, as OceanGate had an agreement with the space agency to test the Titan submersible's...Read more...

Emma Corrin teases their Deadpool 3 villain. Elizabeth Banks wants more Cocaine Bear. James Gunn insists DC's future animated movies will come to theaters. Plus, take a look at early concept art for Trigun Stampede. Spoilers now!

Twitter-which Elon Musk has desperately tried to convince users is now called X"-wants users to display their $8 a month blue checkmark prominently on their page. Unfortunately for those who pay up, that checkmark has become a kind of Scarlet Letter analog that many app denizens use to denote a Musk bootlicker, or...Read more...

Update: August 2, 8:45 a.m. ET: Northrop Grumman successfully executed its 19th resupply mission (NG-19) to the ISS under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract, using the company's Antares 230+ rocket. The launch vehicle blasted off at 8:31 p.m. ET, sending the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, named S.S. Laurel Clark...Read more...

Of Samsung's latest foldable mobile offerings unveiled at its latest Unpacked event, the most dramatic changes we've seen come via the Galaxy Z Flip 5. Not only do we finally have a fully flat silhouette and a redesigned hinge, but Samsung has caught on that people like more screens, so it stuck a larger display on...Read more...

Just as Futurama rises anew at Hulu, another Matt Groening creation is about to bid farewell. Netflix has announced the final season of Disenchantment will drop all 10 episodes on September 1. With this news comes a teaser recapping what's happened so far in Dreamland-and what awaits Queen Bean and company in the...Read more...

The wait till Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse is going to be a long one, but starting August 8 you'll be able to revisit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse any time you want.Read more...

Elon Musk announced he was changing Twitter's name to X In the last week of July, reflecting the billionaire's life-long obsession with the letter, which is a very normal thing for an adult man to have. To celebrate, CEO Linda Yaccarino, whom Musk appointed in May, changed her username from @lindayaccs to @lindayaX. ...Read more...

Everyone certainly hopes that the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are over long before December rolls around. However, if they aren't, actors who would like to attend and promote themselves at Los Angeles Comic Con will be able to do so.Read more...

Well, they actually did it. After months of tense bickering with Canadian lawmakers over a law forcing tech companies to pay publishers for news, Meta is following through on its threat to cut off access to news on Facebook and Instagram for the country's 40 million residents.Read more...

Great news: Lego saw all that sunny summer weather we've been having and decided that it's simply too much chance for heatstroke, so we should all stay inside well-ventilated rooms, hydrate, and build some new Lego sets. Lots of them. Lots and lots and lots of them.Read more...

Movie studios were served a big loss in their quest to take down pirates. This weekend, a federal court tossed a subpoena in a case against the internet service provider Grande that would require Reddit to reveal the identities of anonymous users that torrent movies.Read more...

A Chinese zoo is denying that its Malayan sun bears are humans dressed in costumes after visitors claimed the bears' behaviors strongly resembled that of a person. A video of the bear, named Angela, was posted on social media and went viral, showing the bear standing on her hind legs and facing onlookers before...Read more...

A weird, experimental debut novel, Oh God, the Sun Goes is set in a world where the sun has mysteriously, unexplainably disappeared. As an unnamed narrator heads west, the book takes a hairpin turn into a searing and eerie romance.Read more...

The summer of foldables may be over before we even see a release from Android's third-best brand, OnePlus. The company is reportedly delaying its folding smartphone debut due to dissatisfaction with its current display supplier. But the good news is that this might mean an upgrade for the folding display on the...Read more...

The high-powered handheld gaming market keeps on growing, and now Lenovo is reportedly getting in on the mix. The company had previously started on then dropped a handheld streaming device, but a new report says Lenovo has its eyes set on a full portable gaming machine akin to a Steam Deck.Read more...

Let's get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)

X, formerly known as Twitter, sued the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Monday, arguing that the nonprofit embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform" and illegally accessed the X's data. The lawsuit came days after Twitter unbanned Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye...Read more...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's space start-up Privateer aims to bring satellite access to the masses through a global online marketplace. Satellite-based data is primarily available to governments, but the company hopes to create a way for private citizens to share the cost of accessing a satellite, potentially...Read more...

Apple has reportedly removed more than 100 generative artificial intelligence apps from the Chinese version of its App Store believed to be in violation of the country's strict new regulations clamping down on subversive" speech produced by ChatGPT-style chatbots. Those restrictions, which officially take effect...Read more...

With the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem this week, BoxLunch is throwing it back to the classic animated series.Read more...

The family of Henrietta Lacks-whose cancer cells have played a vital role in modern medicine for decades-has reached a legal settlement with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific over the use of those cells.Read more...

We're sorry to say it but the Green Arrow might be a bit of an A-Hole. Speaking at GalaxyCon in Raleigh, NC this past weekend, Stephen Amell had some disappointing thoughts on the current WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which makes him the most vocal star so far to speak out against the work stoppage. However, after he got...Read more...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission took over 11 years to get off the ground (and Earth), but now the nascent space observatory has produced its first test images of the cosmos.

Doctors in Florida are sounding caution about one of the world's oldest known ailments, leprosy. In a recent report, they detail a local case of the bacterial disease with no recent travel history or other clear risk factors. The case and others suggest that leprosy is spreading routinely in Central Florida and has...Read more...

For whatever quirky reason, August 2023 is particularly robust on two fronts: short-story collections, and retellings that shed new light on familiar characters from myths and history. That said, this month's list is simply huge (70 titles!) and also has plenty of epic fantasy and sci-fi-as well as some truly original...Read more...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, currently 12.4 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, has phoned home, essentially telling mission controllers that the recent rumors of its impending death have been greatly exaggerated. The ongoing communications problem, however, remains unresolved.

Just a few short weeks after OceanGate's own CEO perished along with four others in an implosion of the Titan submersible, the company's co-founder wants to send another group of people into another uninhabitable environment.Read more...

As Return of the Jedi continues to mark its 40th anniversary, one of the best traditions to come out of this blockbuster trio of celebrations for the original Star Wars trilogy is From a Certain Point of View, short story collections going blow-by-blow through the movies from the perspectives of those in and around...Read more...

An asteroid-hunting algorithm set to be implemented in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year survey spotted its first potentially hazardous asteroid, proving the algorithm's capabilities in advance of the observatory's opening.

If you were a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s/early 1990s, one image is burned into your brain. It's the teaser poster for the first film. Four turtles, popping their heads out of the sewer and into big, bright New York City.Read more...

Amazon is expanding its repertoire of services to include a virtual health clinic which is now available to customers in all 50 states starting on Tuesday. Customers will have access to clinicians 24 hours a day through both Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app.

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Meta, owner of Facebook and instagram, plans to launch a series of AI chatbots with different personalities on its social networks as soon as September, according to a report in the Financial Times. It's the latest attempt to curb declining engagement, especially on Facebook, and could be a shortcut to harvesting even...Read more...

After a social media storm swirled in Japan after the U.S. social media accounts for the Barbie movie acknowledged the Barbenheimer" mashup memes, Warner Bros. has released an official statement apologizing for participating in the viral trend.

Ride-sharing giant Uber finally has some good news. Uber has reportedly made operating profit for the first time in the company's history, fueled by a post-pandemic demand for rides and a seemingly successful push toward food delivery.Read more...