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‘What goes up must come down’ is a fundamental truth of physics, and also seemingly of cryptocurrencies. Sometimes though, the coins get a little help on the roller coaster ride. On Thursday evening, after hyping the blockchain bucks, Twitter pulled the rug out from under Dogecoin.

The first season of Andor turned out to be one of the best shows (both sci-fi and generally speaking) of last year. Thanks to some pretty great performances and writing, the show wasn’t so much the Rogue One prequel it was initially pitched as and more a look at what rebellion and government systems look like, and how…Read more...

After signing up to YouTube as a new, 13-year-old user, Sky News found that YouTube flooded the feed with Andrew Tate videos, despite the professional misogynist being banned from the platform. The report highlights criticisms that YouTube is algorithmically pushing young boys to become fans of the toxic influencer…Read more...

A new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 featurette really nails home that this is a send-off. Five Nights at Freddy’s and the Minecraft movie get premiere dates. Quicksand does not make a good marriage counselor in a new horror flick. Plus, we have more proof the Rick and Michonne TWD series is really happening. Get to…Read more...

We’ve never known much about what to expect from Star Wars: The Acolyte, the Disney+ series from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), other than it’s set at the end of the High Republic era around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, will explore the Dark Side, and has a ridiculously talented cast. At Star Wars Celebration…Read more...

Famines, sea level rise, extreme weather, more pandemics—by this point, you’ve probably heard about the most disturbing consequences of climate change. What you might not have heard is that it could also hurt Major League Baseball. That’s right, America’s favorite pastime is imperiled by its other favorite hobby:…Read more...

We’ve known about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew for the past year, which has been called an “Amblin-style” series about a group of space-adventuring kids (plus Jude Law) from Spider-Man director Jon Watts (and a few more friends, including Oscar-winning duo the Daniels). At today’s Star Wars Celebration, we learned even…Read more...

At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney unveiled the first official look at Star Wars: Ahsoka. The series picks up after Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson)’s live action appearances on The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett, and once again features Dave Filoni as a driving creative force for the series. Take a look at the…Read more...

Star Wars has kicked off Star Wars Celebration 2023 with the official announcement for the highly anticipated next live-action film. Rumors about the film circulated when Lucasfilm announced the panel lineup that included “live-action” filmmakers. Now, we finally know what they were talking about. After a hiatus from…Read more...

Sorry Venmo and CashApp heads, you’re missing out. Earlier this week, Google Pay users began reporting that they were receiving phantom payments in their accounts. The amounts ranged anywhere from a few bucks to over $1,000.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is having second thoughts over sticking NPR with a “state-affiliated media” label this past Wednesday, a decision which opened a debate about press freedom and led NPR to stop tweeting in protest.Read more...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is arriving in June—but so far, all fans of Harrison Ford’s rakish-at-any-age hero have gotten is one measly trailer. That changed today when the fifth entry in the beloved franchise got a fresh look at the film as part of Lucasfilm’s big panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe.

The warmest and most welcome addition to the Star Wars universe made her debut on The Mandalorian’s “Guns for Hire” episode.Read more...

After nearly two years, Chrome browsers may soon finally get a feature that has thus far been restricted to Google Pixel phones. On Thursday, Reddit user and Chrome Canary beta tester Leopeva64 posted several screenshots and GIFs on the r/chrome subreddit showing off an upcoming Live Translate caption feature coming…Read more...

It’s a big year for Warner Bros. with all its centennial celebrations. Merch marking the WB100 features mash-ups with the Looney Tunes, DC characters, and cinematic classics like Casablanca. The collection also includes special edition items inspired by WB’s 100 years of storytelling—think replicas of iconic props like…Read more...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed new regulation that would make chemical plant owners and operators responsible for their toxic emissions. Facilities would have to measure and reduce hazardous compounds beyond just the property that a chemical plant sits on, a change that could…Read more...

Former Tesla employees are confessing to having shared, laughed at, played back in slow motion, and just generally had a great time watching the videos that were taken with customers’ in-vehicle cameras. Reuters reports that close to a dozen former employees have revealed that sharing drivers’ personal videos was one…Read more...

Guangzhou-based company CAS Space recently flew a small rocket-like prototype outside a Chinese coastal city before landing it upright on a sea-based platform. The successful test flight and landing could eventually change the game for the Chinese rocket industry.

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Last year, California’s waterways were disappearing. The West was gripped by a historic megadrought that left major reservoirs at historic lows, slashed hydropower, and messed with produce prices.

Axiom Space is getting ready to launch its second private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), applying valuable lessons learned from the company’s inaugural crew experience as it prepares for its own space station in low Earth orbit.Read more...

A tech company is under fire for seemingly posting a job listing asking for white candidates only with a note saying not to publish that information. Arthur Grand Technologies reportedly posted an ad on Indeed for a business analyst position with the note “Only Born US Citizens [White] who are local within 60 miles…Read more...

Books and short stories get snapped up for adaptations all the time; many, no matter how amazing the source material, never actually get made into movies or TV shows. These 10 sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles, however, are actively in the works—or at least have big names attached, so there’s definite reason to…Read more...

Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie, Google has an offering for the world. It’s called “Privacy Sandbox,” a set of proposed changes to Chrome and Android which—according to the…Read more...

We were big fans of the original Spyra One when it debuted in the Summer of 2018 with two features never before seen on water guns: it fired concentrated blasts of water—the equivalent of liquid bullets, and it could refill itself when inserted into a bucket of water. Its creators are back with the fourth iteration of…Read more...

The handheld console market is growing faster than Wario at an all-you-can-eat pasta buffet, but the major legacy console developers are unwilling to capitalize on it. Even the Nintendo Switch is getting a bit long in the tooth at this point, meaning we’re now seeing competition in the form of devices like the Steam…Read more...

The Lego Batman Movie was a critical and commercial hit, earning more than $300 million at the box office in 2017—and yet, a sequel will never happen. That’s because Lego ended its partnership with Warner Bros., which owns DC Comics and Batman, and signed with Universal instead. But director Chris McKay has revealed…Read more...

In 2017 everyone was talking about The Power. The sci-fi novel topped bestseller lists, was featured in book clubs and on morning talk shows, and Barack Obama named it one of the best books he read that year. In the book young women are able to control electrical currents and even emit electricity. The satirical novel…Read more...

If you’re on the line, stay on the line! That is: Stay on your iPhone call with emergency services if Apple’s crash detection feature unnecessarily calls for help on your behalf.

Archaeologists recovered ancient hair from a cave in Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands, and found it contained compounds that can cause hallucinations or altered states of consciousness in humans. In other words, the team found evidence of an ancient trip.Read more...

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Artificial Intelligence jobs are all the rage with the sudden popularity of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Even though there are concerns the robots will eventually take over existing jobs ranging from computer programmers and software engineers, advertising and journalism, paralegals, market research analysts, and…Read more...

Dune: Part One is inarguably beautiful to watch. Every shot is stunning, as if every frame of film could be its own art piece. It’s no wonder the movie won the Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Visual Effects Oscars at the 2022 Academy Awards. Now you can enjoy that splendor in a new form: Dune…Read more...

Star Wars Celebration Europe is finally here, meaning several days of news from a galaxy far, far away. But what should you expect? What’s definitely happening? When is it happening? We’ve got you covered: the newest Star Wars movies, streaming shows, books, toys, nostalgia, you name it.Read more...

New, gut-wrenching details have emerged in the death of tech executive Bob Lee, the creator of Cash App: Lee, 43, screamed for help after getting stabbed and approached people in a parked car for assistance. The people in the car drove away.Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of Uranus, with a twist: Here, the seventh planet from the Sun is encircled by prominent concentric rings.

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 “Virtually Cherokee” by Brian K. Hudson. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGHTSPEED’s website. Enjoy!

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The ‘90s might be best known for 16-bit gaming, Tamagotchis, and the earliest flip phones, but I remember it as a decade where we got to watch digital cameras go from expensive tools for professional photographers to devices accessible to the average consumer—complete with an awkward teenage phase where companies…Read more...

Elon Musk makes a lot of big promises. Often, these never make it across the expansive gulf that lies between the world’s richest man’s mind and reality. Yet in a rare occurrence, one such pledge appears to have successfully traversed the void.

An Apple developer left one of the strangest Easter eggs hidden in the macOS, offering a surprising and baffling connection between the Cupertino tech company’s mainline operating system to everybody’s (least) favorite cryptographic digital currency.Read more...

Despite the millions of people who read Hugh Howey’s best-selling, dystopian Silo novels, the upcoming Apple TV+ series adaptation feels like it’s flying under the radar—although maybe that’s appropriate for a story about the last vestige of humanity stuck underground so long they can’t remember why. But maybe this…Read more...

Samsung employees are in hot water after they reportedly leaked sensitive confidential company information to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on at least three separate occasions. The leaks highlight both the widespread popularity of the popular new AI chatbot for professionals and the often-overlooked ability of OpenAI to suck up…Read more...

Sean Bothwell can understand why people think desalination is a silver bullet. When he was a kid living in California’s Orange County, the ocean was always close by. It didn’t make sense to him that all the water near him wasn’t usable.Read more...

Scientists in China this week say they’ve accomplished a first in bioengineering: creating embryo-like structures from monkey stem cells. The structures were implanted in surrogate female monkeys and briefly grew but did not become viable fetuses. The research may eventually help us better understand the earliest…Read more...

Following in the footsteps of competitor Microsoft—which added the same tech behind ChatGPT to Bing earlier this year—Google is on its own path to include a chatbot in its own search engine. When? Well, CEO Sundar Pichai was delightfully vague on the timeline.

Get a look at some new posters for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The Necronomicon is found in a new Evil Dead Rise clip. Plus, new posters for the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. To me, my spoilers!

A soon-to-launch NASA mission is set to offer more data on North America’s air quality than researchers and public health programs have ever had available before. A new monitoring instrument hosted on a commercial satellite will offer continent-wide, hourly updates on air pollution, at about a four square mile…Read more...

There was a time in the evolution of the desktop PC that it didn’t really matter what the insides looked like, because they were always hidden away behind a beige metal box. Now, the insides of many high-performance PCs are flashier than their outsides. Seagate wants to make sure the guts of your gaming rig are as…Read more...

India planted its flag in the sand of the global artificial intelligence race on Tuesday as a major agency said the government has no plans to regulate the technology.Read more...