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Reports of fallen space junk are pouring in from parts of Indonesia and Malaysia, suggesting debris from China’s out-of-control rocket reached land—including areas perilously close to homes.Read more...

For those lucky enough to have transitioned to working from home full-time during the ongoing pandemic, a good webcam—better than what’s built into most laptop’s screens—is a must-have accessory, and Insta360 just raised the ‘good webcam’ bar even further with the 4K Link, which uses a three-axis gimbal to always keep…Read more...

Death Valley was not immune to thunderstorms over the weekend, and some roads in and out of the national park have been deemed unsafe after being inundated with flood water. The damage in California follows intense rainfall and flooding that hit parts of Nevada and Arizona last week.

As a new era of Game of Thrones is set to begin with House of the Dragon on HBO, the hit franchise is getting its own convention in partnership with Creation Entertainment to bring fans more into the world of Westeros.Read more...

Aluminum cans are the quintessential easy recyclable. There’s no draconian number-sorting scheme, no lids to remove, and usually the quickest of rinses serves to get them clean. Beverage cans are infinitely recyclable, as they can be processed into new cans, sheet metal, or anything else aluminum any number of times,…Read more...

An international team of surgeons successfully separated two, three-year-old twins conjoined at the head, thanks in large part to months spent preparing in virtual reality simulations.Read more...

We’ve got dungeons, dragons, and Dungeons & Dragons. We’ve got aliens, shape-shifters, ghosts, demons, assassins, and space cats. August is jam-packed with new books, so if you’re still in need of some summer reading material to take you to Labor Day and beyond—we’ve got you covered.

Before LCDs and LEDs became cheap enough to add to nearly any device, mechanical flap displays were used in large-scale signage and bedside alarm clocks for improved legibility. Shinsaku Hiura has recreated one from scratch with a fun twist: they’ve replaced the numbered flaps with playing cards, a design that will…Read more...

With about 5,000 airplanes in the sky right now, all the world is seemingly focused on just one. That includes Chinese, Taiwanese, and U.S. leadership, as well as internet users across the world and, apparently, hackers.Read more...

At San Diego Comic-Con a few weeks ago, Hasbro lifted the lid on what’s coming for its Marvel Legends line—and io9 has a closer look at some of what’s coming to stalk your toyshelf, in the form of a new multipack featuring the comics’ most fearsome symbiotes.

Netflix’s Avatar adaptation finds itself a bounty hunter. The next season of The Boys has found itself some new supes. Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie may have found a fantastic Madame Leota. Plus, get a glimpse at the season finale of The Orville, and a new look at I Am Groot. Spoilers now!

Newly released data is the latest to show that Lyme disease cases in the U.S. are on the rise. The research found that private insurance claims related to the tickborne disease have substantially climbed since 2007, including more recently in the last five years. This relative increase was especially dramatic in rural…Read more...

The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, over the weekend was conducted by the CIA using what was likely the Hellfire R9X missile, according to the New Y0rk Times and India’s Hindustan Times. The missile is unique for not having any explosive material and instead…Read more...

The trailers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law have made it seem like Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk is the show’s second lead. He’s all over the marketing. And now, he’s driving the first clip released from the show too. But we have questions about all of this.Read more...

While all was quiet on DC’s San Diego Comic-Con front in regards to The Batman sequel and its Penguin series spin-off, star Colin Farrell recently told Entertainment Weekly he expects shooting to start on his straight-to-order series early next year. Unsurprisingly, he’d also be very open to returning to the role,…Read more...

Two Kenyan cabinet bosses have issued strong statements opposing an ultimatum handed down to Meta last week by the nation’s cohesion watchdog. The interior minister and minister for information, communication, and technology said separately that Kenya will take no action against Facebook ahead of next week’s national…Read more...

Welcome back to io9's monthly Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most.Read more...

For the past year, one of the most powerful companies in adult entertainment has been weathering a lawsuit that claims it intentionally hosted and profited off of child porn. The suit accuses MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub, of knowingly monetizing videos involving minors, as well as a variety of other non…Read more...

Stephanie Lucas, a California-based UX designer, was at home Saturday morning when she read Gizmodo’s investigation into dozens of companies selling data on millions of Americans labeled “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products.”Read more...

Researchers just studied the lensing of the oldest light we can see and discovered the oldest dark matter yet observed, surrounding 12-billion-year-old galaxies.

Some crypto critics like Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner have called the entire apparatus of crypto “nothing more than a pyramid scheme.” It’s an easy claim when you cite the ever-growing number of scams in the crypto scene that have cost users over $1 billion since last year.Read more...

New research measuring over 21 billion Facebook friendships seemingly confirms something you probably already inherently knew: having rich friends helps.Read more...

Teens and young people do stupid things—you’ve done them, I’ve done them—but a new report from India is pushing the limits of our credulity. Allegedly, Indian youth are boiling flavored condoms and drinking the water to get high. If that sounds to you like a 2022 version of Tide Pods or “pharm parties,” you’re not…Read more...

Everyday it appears that we’re spiraling closer to the apocalypse. Today, that future seems a little closer than we thought as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned today that humanity is “one misunderstanding, one miscalculation” away from being wiped off the face of the planet by a nuclear…Read more...

It’s that time of year when Spirit Halloween stores begin popping up in formerly empty retail spaces—and the one-stop shop for all things spooky has another way to announce its arrival this year, thanks to Spirit Halloween: The Movie. Christopher Lloyd stars, and the first trailer has arrived.Read more...

Good news for anyone who’d prefer tapping into Apple Pay for an online transaction: it might become available to use within browsers besides Apple’s Safari. MacRumors contributor, Steve Moser, discovered an Apple Pay button in both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in the latest iOS 16 beta, leading us to believe it…Read more...

Projekt Red, the video game studio that created Cyberpunk: 2077, worked with anime titan Studio Trigger and Netflix to create Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. While Netflix’s recent Geeked Week had a sneak peek and a teaser trailer, we’re finally getting a look at a full-length trailer that explores the dystopian world of…Read more...

The path to creative climate solutions is paved with the skeletons of a million startups, but Blue Frontier wants to be different. Blue Frontier is chasing the dream of cleaner air conditioning systems with its use of a concentrated salt solution, and results are so promising that the company just got a big check from…Read more...

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If you watched last night’s Riverdale season six finale, I assume you’re still reeling from the madness that just went down. If you didn’t, here’s what happened on the show that makes Gotham look like a low-key, down-to-earth drama.

A species of giant panda lived in eastern Europe 6 million years ago, according to scientists who studied the animal’s fossilized teeth.Read more...

While the CW gutted its programming recently, DC shows seem to have been especially hard hit. Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, Naomi, and now The Flash have all been axed, according to Variety. There seems to be a revolving door of DC shows, as still on the network are Gotham Knights, Justice University, and Superman &…Read more...

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After Nichelle Nichols passed over the weekend, the reactions from friends, family, and fans have been pouring out across social media. The actress, who famously starred in Star Trek as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, was a trailblazer on screen and behind the scenes, advocating for civil liberties, human rights, and diverse…Read more...

Sky Mavis, the developers of the routinely mauled “play-to-earn” NFT-based game Axie Infinity, are now having to fight back accusations executives had transferred funds out of the main game as the attack was going on, before the company even announced that users had been swindled.Read more...

The main thing that stopped George Lucas from making Star Wars TV shows decades ago was money. He couldn’t figure out how to make a show that looked like his movies, but for a fraction of the cost, which at the time was the only way it would work for TV. And while the first three live-action Star Wars shows did figure…Read more...

You can never have enough Power Rangers toys, Hasbro argues, mostly because it owns Power Rangers. But that’s especially true of Mighty Morphin’, the franchise progenitor that, no matter how many iterations of teenagers with attitude there are, it’ll seemingly never escape. So why not add another to your collection?

The global monkeypox outbreak has now caused its first fatalities outside of Africa. Over the weekend, Brazil reported a monkeypox-related death, while Spain reported two. On Monday, India reported a death as well.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is reportedly calling on his staff to implement a “Simplicity Sprint” initiative meant to crowdsource employee ideas around product development, drive up efficiency and, “get better results faster.” The proposal comes on the heels of a hiring freeze and a series of worrying emails that has some…Read more...

The U.S. is apparently moving on two fronts to try and create an edge for itself in the chip-making market. One is to try and emphasize American chipmakers with billions of dollars in funding. That could be years and years before we even see a change in the market thanks to new factories, however, the White House is…Read more...

Another day, another wildfire. The McKinney Fire began burning in northern California on July 29, and since then it has scorched a total of 52,000 acres, making it the largest wildfire in California’s 2022 wildfire season.

Godzilla vs. Kong 2 has begun filming. Jameela Jamil talks She-Hulk’s Titania. Plus, good news for Moonhaven, and what’s coming on Westworld, Ghosts, and Primal. Spoilers, away!

Lucasfilm has released a new trailer for Andor, as well as revealing that the series has been pushed back several weeks and will now premiere September 21.

At least 28 people have died in the floods that have hit eastern Kentucky, according to the latest update from the state. And Kentucky’s Governor warns the death toll is going to get much worse in the coming days and weeks.

“I only know what I tell me.”

Over the various Predator films, comics, games, fans have met numerous iterations of the camouflaged alien hunter, and each of them have been formidable, bloody threats in their own ways. The upcoming Prey, which releases next week, winds back the clock to 1719 in the Comanche Nation, and its Predator stands as the…Read more...