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The ugly truth is that, if you could see the quality of the air you breathe in many places, you wouldn't go outside. But it's important to highlight the insidious presence of air pollution. Recently, a team of scientists and artists teamed up to do exactly that.Read more...

Nailing down an identity for Dragon Age has always been difficult. BioWare's dark-fantasy RPG series has evolved from being its more traditional RPG offering-compared to how it changed wider genre with the impact of Mass Effect back in 2007-from game to game, taking on different tones, aesthetics, ideas of narrative...Read more...

A recent outburst from the Sun sent a strong blast of charged particles and radiation towards Mars, allowing scientists to get a rare glimpse at how these events unfold on planets other than Earth.

Lord of the Rings is never far from the pop-culture front row, especially with Prime Video's The Rings of Power ramping up to its second season, Andy Serkis' Gollum movie in the works, Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning trilogy making a return to theaters, and the release of an especially intimidating new Lego set. But...Read more...

Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as Cancer Alley." The name stems from the fact that the area's residents have a 95% greater chance of developing cancer than the average American. A big reason for this is the...Read more...

Seth Rogen's foul-mouthed, R-rated animated food universe is back, and this time, it's bigger, longer, and possibly uncut. It's called Sausage Party: Foodtopia, an eight-part animated series coming to Prime Video on July 11, and the first trailer is here.Read more...

The Boys is back later this week and now we know when it'll end. Eric Kripke, showrunner of the popular Prime Video show, announced on social media that the next season of the show, its fifth, will be its last.Read more...

Star Trek fans just said goodbye to Discovery after five seasons, but the future is looking bright for the iconic sci-fi franchise: Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti has joined upcoming Paramount+ series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which was officially greenlit last year and is expected to begin filming this summer.

Any actor joining the Star Wars galaxy will tell you what they're most looking forward to. It's seeing their action figures for the first time. Well, io9 has your exclusive look at the cast of The Acolyte doing just that. Plus, one of the actors has a figure that has yet to be revealed. So let's reveal that too.

An emerging alternative to psychedelic mushrooms is more dangerous than advertised, public health researchers are warning.

If you were hoping that all those Apple Intelligence" features showcased during WWDC 2024 would make their way to your iPhone sooner rather than later, I've got some bad news for you. The best you can expect to see the new and improved Siri is 2025. Plus, you'll need the latest, most expensive iPhone to test...Read more...

All good things must come to an end-for us and the denizens of Piltover and Zaun alike, it seems. Netflix has just dropped the first full look at the return of Arcane, Fortiche's sumptuous League of Legends prequel... and confirmed that season 2 will be its last.Read more...

Spotify could be getting more expensive, but it'll actually be for a good reason.

Japan has formed a task force to investigate UFOs after the country was dubbed a hotspot" for strange aerial sightings by a Pentagon report published last year.Read more...

On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over three cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much ends there: Both cities were wiped out,...Read more...

If the quantity of Rebel Moon we already have wasn't somehow enough, as he is wont to do, Zack Snyder has found room for more. Today, the director confirmed that both extended editions of his Netflix sci-fi duology will release on the same day this summer, all the better to numb your lower half with through the medium...Read more...

I am the person in my friend group responsible for all of our tech needs, and I take my job very seriously. I've got a spare power bank, an instant camera, and, most importantly, a Bluetooth speaker with me at all times, no matter the occasion. So you can understand why JBL's latest portable speakers can easily fit...Read more...

Saw XI's co-writer wants the film to have something to say. Peacemaker season 2 adds more to its cast, and confirms the return of a familiar comics face. Plus, The Boys' Jack Quaid teases the new season's Herogasm-topping gross out moments. To me, my spoilers!

It was just shy of a month ago when Keith Gill, better known as Roaring Kitty, began posting on his Twitter account giving some amateur investors hope that GameStop's stock would skyrocket in value like it did in 2021. On Friday, Gill had his triumphant return to YouTube with a live stream that in the end, lasted only...Read more...

Fidias Panayiotou, a YouTuber from Cyprus known for weird stunts, has been elected to the European Parliament, according to the Cyprus Mail on Monday. The 24-year-old secured third place in his election with 19.4% of the vote, as reported by the BBC, which means he'll become one of the six Members of the European...Read more...

At WWDC 2024, Apple unleashed a blitzkrieg of software updates to put AI, or Apple Intelligence," front and center in your iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

The Lord of the Rings can still make that precious, precious money. This past weekend, Fathom Events began a three-day marathon of Peter Jackson's original trilogy, with screenings of the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Saturday and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on...Read more...

Apple and OpenAI's partnership is only a few hours old, and Elon Musk is already going to war over it. The owner of Tesla, X, SpaceX, and xAI said he would ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple integrated ChatGPT at the operating system level, which the companies are very much planning to do. Musk, a founder of...Read more...

At the WWDC 2024, held in Apple Park, Cupertino, Apple demoed one of the most impressive updates that AirPods Pro has received in a while: Siri Interactions.

A complaint that Tesla has misled consumers with the name of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot features, brought by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, will be allowed to go forward, according to a report from Bloomberg Monday.

Nearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star located just 63 light-years away from Earth. In recent observations from the Webb Space Telescope, however, the dust cloud had mysteriously vanished. Now, a new paper suggests the dust cloud may have been caused by a...Read more...

As unbelievable as it sounds, the iPad has never had its own Calculator app like the iPhone. That just changed with the iPad OS 18. When the new OS rolls out in the fall, users can finally do some quick math on the iPad and more.

For years, Apple has tried to make privacy a core part of its brand. The keyword here is tried," since multiple investigations (including one from Gizmodo) have shown that the company doesn't always live up to its lofty privacy promises. As part of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple rolled out several...Read more...

The Doctor's romantic history has long been a fraught topic for the show to dive into-but in its modern incarnation, the Doctor's identity as a sexual character, and how that interplays with their gender fluidity, has slowly but surely broken down barriers to allow interpretations of the Time Lord that broach all...Read more...

The Pleistocene Epoch-with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals-still looms large in Earth's rearview mirror, having ended a mere 12,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers posit that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet's history may have been chilly due to a cloud in space that briefly...Read more...

Apple revealed its partnership with OpenAI during the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, integrating ChatGPT as a core technology in new iPhones, iPads and Macs coming later this year. Apple also officially unveiled Apple Intelligence, the company's homegrown AI products weaved throughout its operating...Read more...

The ability to freely walk around the Star Wars universe is closer than ever. Star Wars Outlaws, the new game from Ubisoft, is the world's first open-world Star Wars game, and brand new gameplay footage was just released at the company's event, UbiForward.Read more...

Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and Shawn Levy walked into a Kansas City Chiefs game last year and the internet exploded. Surely, this was confirmation thatthe pop megastar would be appearing in the trio's upcoming Marvel movie Deadpool & Wolverine. Surely, it was happening.Read more...

Is that... the sound of midnight margaritas? After much speculation and some nearly forgotten rumors of a prequel series, it now seems ever more likely that 1998's Practical Magic, long a Halloween staple, will get a sequel. Hey, if Hocus Pocus can get two sequels, why not this other 1990s witchy favorite?Read more...

Glen Powell recently shared a shocking story about his sister's friend who went on a date with a cannibal. The only problem with his story? It sounds like an urban legend that dates back to at least 2001.Read more...

Over two years have passed since fans were treated to one of the most exciting and maddening cliffhangers ever on the Apple TV+ show, Severance. In that time, everyone has been dying to know what's next for the innies and outies of Lumon Industries. Well, the bad news is, we still don't know. The good news is the...Read more...

This past weekend, I sat down to bring an end to a story I have been following for the best part of the last 10 years of my life: Bungie's Destiny saga, told across two games, myriad expansions, seasons of living-game content, and many crushing highs and lows, came to what has long been shaped as its first proper end.Read more...

Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis (Jacob Anderson) revisited their very first Interview With the Vampire meeting in Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape," directed by Craig Zisk and written by Hannah Moscovitch and Jonathan Ceniceroz. And what memories they are.Read more...

When it comes to Tesla, it seems like the only thing people want to talk about lately is the Cybertruck and its flaws. And while we can all have a laugh at that monstrosity on four wheels, the electric vehicle company has a problem with its growing parking lots of unsold Teslas in Austin, Texas. Telsa has struggled to...Read more...

Just as all eyes turn to Netflix and Fortiche to see what's next for season 2 of the studio's stunning League of Legends prequel, Arcane, there's good news for fans of incredible animation and physical media: the first season is heading home, and in ways we've never seen it on Netflix.

For Xbox, hardware is an afterthought. If you were like us and spent nearly two hours watching the Xbox Showcase, you came away disappointed by whats on offer for 2024. We are getting the same Xbox console hardware first released in 2020, though now with more storage. We could have had a handheld. We could have had...Read more...

During the early 1980s, the word tampon became briefly synonymous with terror. Doctors began to document cases of a then little-known condition linked to the feminine care product, called toxic shock syndrome. Thousands of such cases and around a hundred deaths were reported before the crisis was ultimately contained....Read more...

A rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal earlier this year. A pterosaur with a third foot sprouting from its wing. A museum posting a psychedelic Godzilla-meets-gecko on social media, while a more life-like illustration of the ancient reptile appears on its websiteRead more...

Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference, or WWDC, is all set to be held from June 10 through June 14 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. If you're not in person, youcan catch up on the Cupertino company's OS news online. Apple also posts an archive of the keynote on its website for folks who aren't...Read more...

A young female FBI agent with unusually fine-tuned intuition comes aboard an active serial-killer case her superiors have been unable to crack, and proves to be the missing piece that helps move the investigation forward. It could be The Silence of the Lambs-or, if you flipped everything inside out and added an...Read more...

If there's something we could all use to improve our lives, it's more time in the day to enjoy ourselves, see friends and family, and relax. One of the promises the wave of generative AI bots makes is that they will improve our day-to-day existence. So, does that extend to getting us all more free time?

Open your kitchen drawer and take out some tin foil. Twirl it into a cone - maybe even double-wrap it - and put it on your noggin. Do you feel safer yet? The tin foil hat is perhaps the most iconic headgear for conspiracy theorists. Wearing one signals to others that you're unhinged, have a deep distrust of the...Read more...

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai returns with a new name. Orphan Black: Echoes offers a new taste of what's to come. Plus, what to expect from the next episode of My Adventures With Superman. To me, my spoilers!

Almost exactly a year ago, I posed a card puzzle here that sparked a frenzy in the comments section. The solution to that puzzle was so counterintuitive that several readers rejected it outright. In honor of the approaching anniversary, it's time to stir up more controversy with two more surprising card puzzles.Read more...

Massive Entertainment's Star Wars Outlaws puts players in the boots of Kay Vess, a young crook trying to make a name for herself in the galaxy's criminal underworld in the gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Doing that means pulling off some small jobs to psych youself up for the Big Job, and...Read more...