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Things have been rough for Spotify. There was anti-vaccine misinformation prominently featured on a Joe Rogan podcast on the app, which garnered quite a lot of criticism, and earlier this month, it also once again raised its prices. The famous music streaming app is also notorious for being anti-artist by severely...Read more...

A recent analysis from advocacy organization Consumer Reports is the latest to highlight the potential threat of pesticides in our produce. It suggests that around 20% of commonly sold fruits and vegetables in the U.S. could contain unsafe levels of pesticides. Given that concerning news, you might be wondering how to...Read more...

The first public beta of Android 15 for the platform's most faithful users rolled out this month. While the operating system version will arrive much later this year-typically right before October's Pixel launch event-it can be fun to try on new features as they're being built out.Read more...

The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Joe Biden said in a statement...Read more...

It's not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too.Read more...

Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals.

After a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon saga finished, but the number didn't quite hit that of the first film.Read more...

At over 13 inches tall, Mondo's take on Bane as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go for the deluxe version.Read more...

Non-compete clauses are a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

We've all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC, everything preinstalled, and you're so excited you're practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You're so engrossed that you forget there's a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. It's Windows 11, a mammoth operating...Read more...

Axon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser, has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops automate their police reports.Read more...

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With Fallout's success and season-two renewal, it's been seeming ever more unlikely that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy would get a chance to revisit their previous sci-fi series, Westworld-cancelled by HBO after four seasons, despite talk about how season five had already been plotted out. Well, here's another nail in...Read more...

Elon Musk is currently battling government officials in Australia who are trying to force X to remove a video of a man being stabbed last week. An Australian court has ordered the video removed globally rather than just having it geo-blocked in Australia. And while Gizmodo has been extremely critical of Musk's poor...Read more...

It's not like you didn't already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But the current pricepoint that's rumored...Read more...

The deodorant of the future might be possible thanks to viruses that hunt down stink-making bacteria. Scientists in Japan believe they've discovered a chemical weapon sourced from bacteriophages that can target a species of bacteria known for contributing to body odor emitted by our armpits.Read more...

House of the Dragon returns in June, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight-aka Dunk and Egg"-is moving full speed ahead. But despite the hunger for Game of Thrones projects, HBO is still being selective about its spin-offs. Among the shows left in the lurch: that Naomi Watts-starring prequel, the Jon...Read more...

Many of us have moved on from the Vision Pro less than three months after its buzzy launch, but Apple can not. The company slashed its 2024 sales expectations for the Vision Pro to nearly half what the market expected for this year, according to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Tuesday. As initial hype fades,...Read more...

The best trailers are the ones that tell you absolutely nothing and that's exactly what you get with the first trailer for Blink Twice. Directed by Zoe Kravitz and starring a who's who of awesome actors, it's some kind of murder mystery cult thing that's either supernatural or just weird rich white people stuff. It's...Read more...

The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year, is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product can be yours for a mere...Read more...

Deadpool & Wolverine's new trailer yesterday didn't really give fresh details on what the film's going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Logan's team-up. But it did give us our first really good look at one of the several villains the movie is playing with-and one of the most...Read more...

Fallout's first season took the bold step of jumping a good chunk beyond the events of any game in the beloved post-apocalyptic RPG series so far, to tell its own story. But that didn't stop fans of one of the more beloved entries in the gaming franchise-the iconic Obsidian spinoff, Fallout: New Vegas-from freaking...Read more...

Apple has set the date of May 7 for its next hardware reveal event. This show will focus on the iPad, particularly the new tablet with an OLED screen.Read more...

Star Wars: Andor: The Complete First Season is io9's most-coveted among the Disney+ series getting collector's edition Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases April 30-no offense to Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier or Moon Knight, or Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, which are also part of the drop.Read more...

On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat rare and/or...Read more...

We're quickly approaching the advent of Google's annual spring developer conference, and as a result, rumors of the company's next mid-range smartphone are loudly percolating. What will the Pixel 8a look like? Will it arrive soon? Will it offer more RAM at its supposedly slightly higher price point? No one knows...Read more...

Everyone's a little freaked out about AI right now-the ramifications of unregulated tech bro start up culture smashing into industries across the board, from journalism, to science, to entertainment, being turned upside down by the hot new trend. But together, Jennifer Lopez and Netflix boldly ask in Atlas the...Read more...

A 28-year-old motorcyclist died in Washington State on Friday afternoon because a dipshit Tesla driver rear-ended him at speed. A Snohomish man, 56, was commuting in his 2022 Tesla Model S when he activated the car's camera-based advanced driver assist system and according to his statements to police, began looking...Read more...

By now, I'm assuming that we've made our way through all eight episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's The 3 Body Problem (and by we, I mean sci-fi nerds). The series is packed with science-much of it way over the top-but it grounds itself in quantum mechanics and astrophysics.Read more...

It's been 23 years since Brian Helgeland gave us A Knight's Tale-and the director's been thinking about ways it could've continued ever since. But once he settled on an idea, he apparently went to Netflix to make the pitch... only to find that the streamer's algorithmic overlords disagreed.Read more...

If you were hoping that all your cultish rituals and stuck voodoo dolls would make the iPhone FineWoven cases meet an untimely end, then you don't know Apple. After one Apple tipster asserted that the maligned iPhone cases would soon be as dead as the Dodo, we may instead be looking at a whole new slate of case...Read more...

Sebastien Vaniek keeps teasing his Evil Dead spinoff. Get a new look at Dakota Fanning's creepy new horror, The Watchers. James Gunn has a Creature Commandos update. Plus, what's to come on Chucky. Spoilers, away!

Microsoft's AI chief said those building AI should make sure it's easy for the public to comprehend it-and offered his own analogy to help do so.

Three teens who allegedly stole high-end cars in Australia last week have been charged with the crimes you'd expect anyone to face for stealing property, according to a new report from the Sydney Morning Herald. But two of the teens are also being charged under a new law that criminalizes posting about your crimes on...Read more...

Former President Donald Trump could pocket more than $1 billion in paper wealth by the end of the day Tuesday.Read more...

There's a whole slew of quality TVs out there calling for the world's attention. Out of Samsung's full slate of premium 2024 TVs, the new 4K Neo QLED is certainly one of the most approachable, both from its upper-midrange base $1,500 price point and its just being a solid viewing experience. It does everything you...Read more...

If viewers felt that after the 28-minuteBluey finale The Sign"-and its unannounced season three coda episode Surprise," which dropped on Disney+ last night-that there was a sense of finality to the beloved animated series, it was in a way intentional.Read more...

With Dune: Part Two, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Deadpool & Wolverine... and probably Dune: Part Two again, 2024 has truly become the year of the popcorn bucket. And if that trend is to continue, one filmmaker with a high-profile sequel coming later this year wants on board.Read more...

Disney CEO Bob Iger recently revealed that the company's theme-park expansion plans include both land and IP-and along with that, there are plenty of rides with lore yet to be explored further. After the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and the Rock's Jungle Cruise, and the mixed reception to last...Read more...

Ground was broken today on what is said to be America's first high-speed rail. The project, which is designed to connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas via a 218-mile stretch of track that will be built across the Mojave desert, will be completed within the next four years, its backers say.Read more...

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If you've been catching up on what's hip in the social media space, you might have heard of Airchat. It's the new, big, exclusive, invite-only thing that's gotten internet residents scrambling for access.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission to finally be able to resume its normal operations.Read more...

Last week, we looked back on the 15 essential sci-fi movies of 1999-a year that brought us The Matrix and the long-awaited return of Star Wars in The Phantom Menace. But horror came a close second that year, led by multiple Oscar nominee The Sixth Sense and indie sensation The Blair Witch Project, among many others.

The Hope and Koh-i-Noor diamonds-two of the most famous Golconda diamonds-may have come from southern India's Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field, according to a team of researchers that reviewed the possible origin points of the gems.

As some of our all-time legends get up there in years, if you have a chance to see them, you should because you don't know when, or if, you'll get the chance again. Among those people is iconic actor, director, writer, and comedy genius Mel Brooks who is 97 years old but doesn't act a day over 85. Brooks was in...Read more...

Meta's metaverse dreams might actually blossom a bit this spring as it's finally done trying to hole itself in its own walled garden filled with its Meta Quest 3 headsets. Starting today, the Zuckerberg-led company has its own OS ecosystem, called Horizon OS, and with new headsets coming from some of the biggest PC...Read more...

Controversial streamer Adin Ross has a rabid fanbase that'll do anything for attention, including driving a car into a lake because...reasons. These dare streams of Ross' tend to come with the promise of a carrot at the end of the proverbial stick, whether that comes in the form of expensive products or cold hard cash....Read more...

This morning we got our latest look at Deadpool & Wolverine, and while it doesn't give as much about the film's premise away as the first trailer, it's filled with a whole lotta Logan-and some surprising other details and hints. Let's go through what we spotted, shall we?

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