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Starfield is the hotly-anticipated, recently-released video game from Bethesda Game Studios, the company behind the likes of other open-world titles like Fallout 4 and Skyrim. Todd Howard's latest behemoth is a space exploration game in which you play as a planetary miner who stumbles upon an alien artifact, launching...Read more...

Sheldon Menery, former TCG journalist and the architect behind Magic: The Gathering's multiplayer Commander" format, has passed away after an extended battle with throat cancer.Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially closed its investigation into the inaugural launch of SpaceX's in-development megarocket, Starship. The company must now implement 63 corrective measures to secure its next Starship launch license from the FAA.

Hot weather is poised to kill many more Americans every year if current trends hold, recent research suggests. It estimates that the U.S. could see 200,000 temperature-related deaths annually by the end of the century in a bad but possible climate scenario-about five times the number of deaths seen today. We might...Read more...

Every month, the io9 Nerd's Watch rounds up the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles coming to streamers like Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and Shudder. Shudder's on the following list of streamers that specialize in more niche and cult offerings, but the rest are all...Read more...

ChatGPT's explosion in popularity may have been short-lived as the number of website visits dropped for the third consecutive month, according to data released by Similarweb on Thursday. OpenAI's ChatGPT took off in November of last year, surpassing 100 million users but started its decline in March, dropping from 8.7...Read more...

Scientists behind a Sun-observing probe applied a simple hack to one of its cameras, allowing them to peer into rarely seen regions of the Sun's atmosphere.Read more...

Ahsoka drops a new" poster for a returning Mandalorian star. Disney teases its new Goosebumps show. Netflix's new Spy Kids movie gets an apocalyptic new trailer. Plus, what's coming on Futurama and American Horror Story: Delicate. To me, my spoilers!

Rocket launches are expensive and laborious, but for decades they've been the price of doing business for space agencies hoping to get their latest satellite, telescope, or team of astronauts into the great blue yonder.

While traditional giants like Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance continue to contribute to space exploration with decades of experience, a new wave of ambitious and pioneering companies is rising.

A team of researchers exploring the seafloor off Alaska last week recovered a peculiar brassy-yellow object at a depth of over 2 miles (3.2 kilometers). The researchers still don't know what it is.Read more...

Humans have been exploring space for over six decades, and our ambitions are only increasing over time. In recent years, this drive has been rekindled with fervor, ushering in an era of unprecedented innovation and competition in the realm of space exploration.Read more...

Apple has just released a security update warning iPhone users to update their phones to iOS 16.6.1 to avoid becoming the target of a vicious malware attack.Read more...

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...