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News flash everyone: public trust in tech companies isn’t exactly thriving. While it doesn’t take an expert to smell the bad blood that’s been brewing between tech and its users, research released this week from Edelman provides new, clear insights into just how much the relationship has soured over the years.Read more...

On November 11, a new character will become Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But is it Shuri? Is it Nakia? Okoye? We don’t know for sure, but apparently everyone in Wakanda has their own opinion about it.

Meta is chugging along on their Universal Speech Translator, which hopes to train an artificial intelligence to translate hundreds of languages in real time. Today, the tech giant claims to have generated the first artificial intelligence to translate Hokkien, which is a language primarily spoken and not written.

On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that it would pull an additional 15 million barrels of oil out of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to help juice up oil supplies and keep gas prices low in the face of the global energy crisis.

It seems Uber just isn’t content with letting users travel in peace and awkward silence during their point-to-point trips. The ride-hailing company now plans to advertise to users at every point of a trip from the moment you open the app. These ads will potentially appear on multiple screens, blasting consumers with…Read more...

Episode seven of Andor traces the ripples of the Rebel strike on Aldhani across the galaxy. Every side sees the lines drawn, and action begins to build in another tension-filled hour of the events that lead up to Rogue One and Star Wars.Read more...

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NASA astronauts are getting ready to spacewalk once again. The space agency put a hold on the extravehicular activities while it investigated a potentially life-threatening problem with the suits, but NASA says spacewalks outside the International Space Station can resume.

On the red carpet for his newest work, The School for Good and Evil, a kind of campy fairy fantasy TV series adapted from the mid aughts-YA novels, Laurence Fishburne was asked about The Matrix Resurrections. I mean, the film is nearly 12 months past its release date and if Mister Fishburne had something to say he wou…Read more...

A new analysis of more than 1,500 supernovae has put fresh precision on measurements of the dark matter and dark energy that permeate our universe.Read more...

As always, we at io9 support sexiness. We also support sexy Halloween costumes. If you want to go out this Halloween dressed as a Sexy Emoji or a Sexy Witcher, we support your choice! But may we suggest, trying to make sure your sexy costume is 1) recognizable, 2) not horrible, and 3) actually sexy? To help guide you,…Read more...

New York’s Attorney General Letitia James wants to criminalize online homicide videos and see revisions to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to hold tech platforms liable for propagating violent livestreams.Read more...

Experienced Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, who had just recently spent 195 days orbiting Earth, accidentally hit a colleague with his car outside the Roscosmos training center earlier this week, according to an official statement from the Russian space agency.Read more...

Debut fantasy author Emily H. Wilson’s Sumerians Trilogy offers a fresh take on the oldest story of all: The Epic of Gilgamesh. First entry Inanna focuses on the goddess of love and the people she meets during a fraught time for ancient Mesopotamia. The novel’s not out until August of next year, but io9 has the…Read more...

As much as I love my smartwatch, I can still appreciate the design and engineering that goes into a traditional mechanical timepiece—most of the time. Richard Mille hopes to capitalize on the era of mobile devices and the devolution of the written word with a new watch packed full of three-dimensional emoji, but only…Read more...

Evangelion 3.0+1.0's purported sendoff of Hideaki Anno’s iconic mecha anime is finally coming to U.S. theaters later this year—but now GKids has announced it’s getting even more screenings, letting you experience emotional distress in the largest cinema format possible.

Amazon, already the biggest online retailer in the world, isn’t content with total global domination of commerce. Instead, the company is constantly seeking to expand into new realms. It has a streaming service, a shipping and logistics arm, its own pharmacy, owns the cloud through its web services, runs the largest…Read more...

The team of crypto-nascent developers originally tapped by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey now have a blockchain-based social media platform in the works. Based on the company’s descriptions it’s certainly idealistic, as long as you can parse through all the blockchain jargon to find the kernel of actual ideas…Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has just imaged what might be its most iconic target yet: the Pillars of Creation, a monumental arm of the Eagle Nebula.Read more...

Simu Liu’s next adventure is a globetrotting trip to Amazon. The next Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror special could contain a surprising guest star. Plus, more footage from Supernatural prequel The Winchesters, and what’s coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks and The Walking Dead. To me, my spoilers!

If you assumed that military training simulators were only made possible with the advent of 3D graphics and virtual reality, Tom Scott is here to prove you wrong as he test drives a fascinating ‘70s-era tank simulator that relies on a tiny camera exploring a detailed model of a miniature European countryside.Read more...

In fall 2020 I was making a lot of really bad life decisions. I don’t know if it was the stress of the pandemic, the chaos in my personal life, or my journalistic obligations to stay up on tech news, but for some reason I decided to sign up for Parler. That wasn’t the biggest mistake I made that year, but it’s one…Read more...

We’ve seen tons of comic books made into live-action films—but Room Service, an in-the-works horror short, flips the script a bit: it’s an original live-action film made by three acclaimed comics creators: Eisner Award winner James Tynion IV (The Nice House on the Lake, Something Is Killing the Children) wrote the…Read more...

California homeowners might soon see some reprieve in skyrocketing property insurance rates. That is, if they take steps to wildfire-proof their houses. The West Coast state is the first in the country to require insurance companies to lower premiums when and where customers enact suggested wildfire safety and…Read more...

Multi-CEO and internet jester Elon Musk has sold 30,000 bottles of a perfume meant to smell like your head is on fire, “Burnt Hair.” Described by Musk as both “the essence of repugnant desire” and “the finest fragrance on Earth,” the “unique, limited edition, collector’s item” is now sold out, Musk announced on TwitterRead more...

Ikea is stepping into the future: The Swedish furniture retail giant is testing out autonomous delivery vehicles in Texas with help from Kodiak Robotics.

A team of physicists say they managed to create a new phase of matter by shooting laser pulses reading out the Fibonacci sequence to a quantum computer in Colorado. The matter phase relies on a quirk of the Fibonacci sequence to remain in a quantum state for longer.Read more...

Hackers say they’ve obtained data from an Australian health insurance company and have threatened to release the private medical information of high-profile Australians if a ransom isn’t paid, according to a new report from the Sydney Morning Herald.

Just in time for Halloween, scientists in Korea say they’ve found a better way to grow an insect-destroying mushroom in the lab. Their work could make studying these fungi easier, which is important, since they and the chemicals they produce may actually have medicinal uses for humans, creepy as they are.

So you’ve put off buying a Halloween costume and it’s now suddenly party season—don’t worry, Funko has you covered. Here’s the company’s line of Pop-inspired masks that can save the day if you’re looking to complete those Stranger Things or Hocus Pocus looks. There’s even more from Disney and DC to piece together some…Read more...

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A new report from the World Health Organization finds that our collective lack of exercise will exact a heavy toll in the years to come if nothing changes. The report estimates that there will be nearly a half-billion new cases of noncommunicable disorders like heart disease and diabetes due to physical inactivity by…Read more...

Wikipedia—the online encyclopedia that helps you learn stuff, waste time, and seem more knowledgable than you really are—is not immune to foreign propaganda, according to new research. A study published Monday exposed a network of shadowy editors, the likes of which have been attempting to sway the narrative about…Read more...

Kanye West says he’s buying Parler, the right-wing social media app that bills itself as an “uncancelable free speech platform” and known for its lax moderation policies. The move comes a little more than a week after Instagram restricted West, who legally changed his name to Ye, on the platform and Twitter locked him…Read more...

The best thing about Black Adam is also the worst thing about it. DC’s latest mega superhero film has a surprisingly compact story that takes place over just a few short days. Everything unfolds almost like it’s in real time, keeping the action and story so propulsive that, at moments, you can barely catch your breath…Read more...

Netflix has gained more than 2.4 million paying subscribers over the past three months, the company announced in its 2022 third quarter earnings report. The uptick in customers is more than enough to make up for the back-t0-back drop in memberships the streaming service incurred earlier in the year. The number also …Read more...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope could launch on board a Falcon 9 rocket in 2023, a consequence of the space agency halting its cooperation with Russia and canceling its flights aboard Soyuz rockets.Read more...

As we enter the spookiest of seasons, I’m delighted to offer you at least a couple horror games to sink your teeth into. A lot of indie designers are recovering from the busy season and already preparing for the next round of conventions (looking at you, PAX Unplugged!). Today we’ve got some experimental song…Read more...

Halloween is the perfect season for horror and thriller movie marathons. But while paranormal or slasher films often dominate our screens, it’s time to give eco-horror a closer look. What could possibly be scarier than nature turning against humankind?Read more...

Another New York-based Amazon facility rejected calls for unionization Tuesday, showing just how hard it is for organized labor to make headway in today’s polarized environment, as well as how effective Amazon’s anti-union activities have become.Read more...

The Russian government has set its sights on yet another U.S. tech company: Amazon.Read more...

Into the thick of Halloween we go with nighttime Marvel surprises at Disney Parks, all the haunts in full swing at both Universal Studios, and festive fun at Knott’s Scary Farm—and let’s not forget the immersive scene with neighborhoods like Cemetery Lane celebrating classic horror.Read more...

You remember Plenty of Fish? You don’t? That’s okay. In a world of infinite Tinders and Hinges, Plenty of Fish has definitely slipped to the end of the list of go-to dating apps. In a bid to reinvent themselves, the company is looking to rebrand their efforts at playing Cupid by launching an in-app game tomorrow.Read more...

How much are you willing to spend for the ability to fine-tune the stick sensitivity and trigger dead zones—oh, and back buttons—on your PlayStation DualSense controller? I hope you just said “an extra $130,” because that’s how much it’s about to cost come next year.

To kick off its Tech World 2022 event today, Lenovo shared a video teasing a couple of prototype devices that leverage an OLED screen’s ability to roll up like a piece of paper, including an intriguing laptop that can transform to provide twice as much screen real estate on demand.Read more...

All seven members of Expedition 68 are now aboard the International Space Station following the arrival of Crew-5 last week. A cargo mission to replenish supplies is expected next week, prompting a necessary orbital adjustment to receive the Russian space hauler.Read more...

The man who brought the Mystery Machine to the big screen is apparently working on something mysterious for DC. James Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy (as well as, yes, screenwriter of the live-action Scooby-Doo film) is gearing up for a mystery DC movie, according to the…Read more...

Finish this joke: A climate reporter rides a scooter branded with the logo of a major international oil company for a weekend. What could possibly go wrong?

Following the announcement of its new iPads, Apple has also dropped a refresh of its Apple TV lineup. The Apple TV 4K starts at $130 and comes in 64GB and 128Gb storage options. However, only the larger storage option offers Ethernet for plugging into the internet and Thread support for Matter connectivity. That last…Read more...

Dear Android tablet users, there’s some good news. There’s a Chrome update rolling out this week that includes a handful of tablet-friendly abilities, some of which were plucked right out of the desktop version of the browser app.