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A routine sequence of commands has triggered a 2-degree change in Voyager 2's antenna orientation, preventing the iconic spacecraft from receiving commands or transmitting data back to Earth, NASA announced earlier today. Mission controllers transmitted the commands to Voyager 2 on July 21.

Pearson, one of the top five textbook makers in the world, is leaping into the world of AI with the same speed and subtlety as a cinderblock-sized primer tumbling to the floor. The company said it plans to offer a new kind of study buddy AI chatbot they promise will be free from the noise and corruption of web-based...Read more...

Chris McQuarrie is already moving on to his next collaboration with Tom Cruise. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical episode reveals its song titles. Plus, Seth Rogen talks about his connection to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and new set pictures from the Fallout TV show. Spoilers get!

Fitbit has announced it's redesigning the mobile app from the ground up. The app will focus squarely on a new personalized and customizable" Fitbit experience, which will debut later this year. If you're itching with anticipation and absolutely can't wait to see what's next (I can't), you can sign up to be a part of...Read more...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: '73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre's 50th anniversary.

Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a blacklisted spyware vendor known for selling powerful surveillance tools. The agency in question not only brazenly...Read more...

One of the most recognizable, versatile, and hilarious performers of our generation passed away this weekand the loss is being felt all over the world. Paul Reubens, best known for his iconic character Pee-wee Herman, lost a battle with cancer this week at the age of 70 and his friends in Hollywood have been paying...Read more...

Vampires aren't supposed to be sparkly, and we're here for bat creature Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter.Read more...

SpaceX recently performed two tests of its new water deluge system, which is meant to protect the surrounding infrastructure during launches of the company's Starship megarocket. The company is doing so, it would appear, without applying for the environmental permits that would have allowed SpaceX to legally discharge...Read more...

The latest in a slew of speculative AI research papers is making some pretty outlandish claims about how deep learning models have some subtle, unrealized cognitive abilities akin to, or even surpassing humans. Though researchers found a modern pre-training transformer model does well at multiple-choice tests that...Read more...

If you haven't been to the official Star Wars website in a while, today's a perfect day to do so. Besides being a place to find excellent Star Wars-themed interviews and videos, it also has a near-encyclopedic database on most of the canon storytelling. So movies, TV shows, animated series, and more almost all have...Read more...

Elon Musk finally dismantled the obnoxious, flashing X" sign on top of Twitter's headquarters on Monday following complaints from city authorities and residents. San Francisco's Department of Building Inspections (DBI) received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure, including concerns about its structural...Read more...

Police in New Orleans have been using facial recognition for the better part of a year, but the tech hasn't had much of an impact on the city's violent crime crisis. NOLA's recently published quarterly public safety review, compiled by city consultant Datalytics, shows that during a nine-month period-between October...Read more...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the eerie punctuation mark, found buried within an image of Herbig-Haro 46/47-a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars located 1,470 light years from Earth.

Halloween started this past weekend at Midsummer Scream, the season's official kick-off convention in Long Beach, CA.

TCGPlayer employees have filed an unfair labor complaint against parent company eBay, The Verge reports. The company, which sells and authenticates trading cards was acquired by eBay in 2022. The complaint accuses eBay of ignoring the union's existence after workers organized in March.Read more...

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Witch From Mercury broke ground for the Gundam franchise with-and sales records spurred in part by-its depiction of the burgeoning romantic relationship between its main characters Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran. But while the series itself came about as close to text as it could on their bond, Bandai itself is...Read more...

A man in the UK has become a medical first, though not in a great way. In a recent paper, scientists say he's the first known person to have caught a newly discovered bacteria from a stray cat's bite. Though the feline encounter resulted in a gnarly infection of his hands, the man was eventually treated successfully...Read more...

We may never definitively know the content of Subway's tuna" after all. A class action lawsuit filed over the alleged mystery meat has now been dismissed two and a half years after it was filed.Read more...

August will kick off with a full supermoon, which is set to rise less than 226,000 miles (363,300 kilometers) from Earth tomorrow night.Read more...

It's the summer of Barbenheimer in the west, as the twin successes of Greta Gerwig's Barbieand Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer have bought a soothing balm to an industry wracked by uncertainty, and plenty of memes to social media. But not everyone is exactly pleased with the latter.

It's been seven years since the Switch first hit the market. Noting how many folks still pop out their Switch for a lengthy subway ride or just how many new, ingenious inventions are still flowing out of Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Knowing all that, Nintendo's next mobile/docked device could be far more of...Read more...

Paul Reubens, the actor who rose to fame as the iconic character Pee-wee Herman, died this week after a long fighter with cancer. He was 70 years old.Read more...

Watching trailers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, one of the first things to come to mind is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Spider-Verse was such a game changer in animation that when you see any animated movie after it that looks a little bit different, it's very easy to link the two. Especially...Read more...

Record-breaking heat in Arizona is killing off the iconic southwestern saguaro cactuses. Yes, cactuses are desert life and they're made to withstand heat. But there is such a thing as temperatures that are too high, even for cactuses that grow in locations that have seen triple-digit temperatures this summer.Read more...

Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber vehicle that was the first-ever involved in a pedestrian fatality, has pleaded guilty to endangerment in the criminal case that followed the crash. The guilty plea, filed nearly five years after Vasquez's fatal collision with a woman crossing a street with her bike,...Read more...

It was another bustling month for spaceflight, the dog days of summer are blazing with the added heat from botched engine tests and a trove of fiery rocket launches. As always, the past month of spaceflight presented a plethora of captivating visuals.Read more...

Attention all R.A. Salvatore fans: the fantasy author will be returning to the world of DemonWars next year with a sister series," kicking off in April with Pinquickle's Folly. Simon & Schuster will be marking the occasion by re-releasing all seven previous DemonWars books with updated covers. Today, io9 is excited...Read more...

San Francisco authorities are targeting Twitter, rebranded as X, for installing an unsafe sign" on the roof of its office building, but have yet to gain access to review the potential safety violation. Twitter installed a giant X" sign on Friday without proper authorization, according to city officials who say a...Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the coolest toy news around the internet. This week, Hot Toys delves into Kamen Rider, Bandai debuts its chonky new Godzilla, and NECA's Gargoyles line gives us the Iron Man Jonathan Frakes of our dreams.Check it out!

Apple is reportedly hoping that .7 mm will make a big difference for iPhone fanatics as the upcoming iPhone 15's screen stretch near to the very edge of the device. There could be more onscreen real estate for your fingers as well, as the Cupertino company may nix the notch and replace it with the Dynamic Island on...Read more...

Coinbase's CEO Brian Armstrong reportedly told the Financial Times that the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to halt trading in the exchange with all currencies except bitcoin. According to Armstrong, the suggestion came just before the SEC sued Coinbase last month.

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As suspected, the canister-like object that washed ashore in Green Head, Western Australia, in mid-July likely belongs to a discarded third stage from an Indian rocket, the Australian Space Agency announced over the weekend.Read more...

Dracula strikes in more new Last Voyage of the Demeter pictures. Listen to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's TMNT: Mutant Mayhem soundtrack. Warwick Davis wants to reprise his Rogue One character. Plus, get a glimpse of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical episode. Spoilers now!

Our first proper look at the return of Loki is here, and Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief has some proper chaos on his hands-familiar faces, familiar foes, fluorescent green pie, and oh, just a little thing like all of time itself coming apart at the seams, himself included.Read more...

Update: July 31, 8:57 a.m. ET: SpaceX successfully launched EchoStar 24 (Jupiter 3), with Falcon Heavy blasting off on Saturday July 28 at 11:04 p.m. ET. The rocket successfully deployed the 9.2-metric-ton communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit, and both side boosters performed successful landings....Read more...

Rep. Yvette Clarke wasn't exactly surprised when ex-President Donald Trump used an AI voice cloning tool to make Hitler, Elon Musk, and the Devil himself join a Twitter Space to troll Florida governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year. The former president wasn't fooling anyone with the doctored screenshot, but Clarke...Read more...

The summer movie season is often one of the most stable periods of the year: studios show off their big tentpoles (usually about a superhero, or something close to one) whose primary goal is to be crowd pleasers and make a lot of money. Since the formula's been around for about 20 years now, you'd reasonably assume...Read more...

Corporations all around the world are getting into AI, and you can now count Hasbro among them. Earlier in the week, the publisher of tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering revealed its new partnership with Xplored, the developers behind the digital board game platform Teburu.Read more...

Bandai's Digimon franchise is deeply beloved and hit at just the right time for kids who grew up in the 90s. But it's one of those properties whose earlier installments have been difficult to get physical releases of for one (usually rights-related) issue or another. Fortunately, things are about to change, because...Read more...

We've known for some time now that Saw X was on the horizon, and would return to the series' roots of people having to escape theseelaborate traps or die gruesomely. The question that's been on folks' minds, especially when it was revealed that Tobin Bell would return as John Jigsaw" Kramer was, how? Since the post-...Read more...

If you're a gamer, your graphics card is likely to be one of the most expensive components in your entire rig-so you want to be sure you're getting the most out of your investment. As with other pieces of hardware, the graphics card requires some careful care and attention over the course of its life to make sure it's...Read more...

Over the years, Seth Rogen's made a name for himself in adapting (and sometimes providing his acting talents to) lesser known comics or properties like Invincible and The Boys. You'd think by this point, and with those he'd have jumped ship to something bigger-namely Marvel or DC, similar to what indie directors have...Read more...

A24's new horror flick Talk to Me revolves around an embalmed hand that when touched, gives the other person a connection between the worlds of the dead and the living. In the film, a group of high schoolers use the thing at parties and record themselves on social media-you hold the hand, say talk to me," and a...Read more...

Marvel's Secret Invasion is now over as of a few days ago, and raised several questions during its six-episode run. Most of them we'll have to see play out in other movies or shows in the coming years (probably), but one of the most important right now is: how long has Rhodey (Don Cheadle) been a Skrull? Following the...Read more...

Mickey Mouse is one of the most famous characters in animation and Disney's most iconic character. Throughout the decades, the character's been kept alive in animation through numerous means, from the toddler show Mickey Mouse Funhouse to the likes of Kingdom Hearts for more older audiences.

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In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England bestowed a knighthood on notorious privateer Sir Francis Drake. The captain of the Golden Hind was hailed by the British crown for his exploits against Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and on what is now the U.S. Pacific coast (which did involve quite a lot of indiscriminate...Read more...