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Sean Hannity took President Joe Biden to task on his show Wednesday, something that’s obviously not new. What did the Fox News personality get all bent out of shape about this time? Hannity is apparently upset that President Biden got a weaker variant of covid-19 than President Donald Trump, the big strong man who…Read more...

Can federal agencies turn to private data brokers to gather data on individuals that would normally be protected under local laws?Read more...

Matt Berry stars on FX hit What We Do in the Shadows, which is currently in its fourth season—but the British actor only just realized how popular the vampire series has become in America. Like, just realized.Read more...

Sylvester Stallone’s superhero film Samaritan finally has a trailer. Originally set to release in 2020, it was delayed many years because of various studio acquisitions. With a focus on the kind of anti-hero story similar to Will Smith’s Hancock, Samaritan is billed as a take on what happens to superheroes when…Read more...

Google’s finally delivering on the new Gmail layout it’s been teasing since February. The company announced that Gmail’s new Material Design 3-inspired layout is now available to all. The revamped look will include immediate Meet, Chat, and Spaces integration without clogging up the page. Google even threw in a…Read more...

Members of Congress—you know, the people who can’t seem to do anything—are taking their considerable talents to the fight against digital threats. On Wednesday, the House Intelligence Committee held a public hearing to address the threat of “commercial cyber surveillance,” otherwise known as the spyware industry.Read more...

In just the past few weeks, wild monkeys have attacked at least 58 people in and around the city of Yamaguchi in southwestern Japan, and no one seems to know exactly why, according to a report from the Associated Press. “I have never seen anything like this my entire life,” city official Masato Saito told the AP on…Read more...

Meta—once a behemoth in the social media space—has reported its first revenue decline ever: A 1% decline in revenue in Q2 year-over-year. This decline comes along with the company’s long haul strategy of pivoting away from their time as social media titan Facebook and into the “metaverse.”

An extra dose of vitamin D probably won’t make the average person’s bones any stronger. New research from a large-scale, placebo-controlled, and randomized clinical trial out Wednesday has found no evidence that taking vitamin D supplements reduces the risk of bone fractures in healthy older adults.Read more...

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022, io9 sat down with the creative teams shepherding Warner Bros.’ classic Looney Tunes characters into new and reimagined cartoons. In a push led by Looney Tunes Cartoons’ Alex Kirwan—who spearheads the franchise’s current slate of shorts on HBO Max—the beloved animation icons will soon …Read more...

Have you ever been to a garage sale where someone was selling sports trophies? Kinda tacky, right? Well, it’s not so much the same when an ex-astronaut does it, especially when it’s one of the original moon landing astronaut’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.Read more...

Data from a NASA probe suggests lunar pits have comfortable temperatures due to their shadowy overhangs, which keep them cool during the day and prevent heat from escaping at night.

On January 1, 1993, Superman died. If you’re used to comics constantly killing off characters and then bringing them back willy-nilly, this may not sound like a big deal. But not only was it rare back in the early ‘90s, this was Superman, comics’ preeminent superhero. The event got massive mainstream news coverage and…Read more...

These days, if your passwords and login credentials have appeared in a public data breach, you’re most likely going to know about it: Apple, Google, password managers, web browsers and more will all warn you if the details that they’re storing have been spotted in a breach. The next question is: what should you do…Read more...

NASA press conferences are almost always interesting, but today’s media event truly blew my mind. Instead of using a proposed sample fetch rover to collect surface samples left by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the space agency intends to send two Ingenuity-class helicopters to Jezero Crater on Mars, where they’ll fly to…Read more...

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We’ve likely all killed a spider or two in the past, but what if that arachnid’s corpse could be repurposed into something useful? Well, researchers at Rice University in Texas think it can and are pioneering the field of “necrobotics” by injecting dead spiders with air to use them to grasp small objects.

With the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard reuniting much of the bridge crew of the Enterprise-D, it makes sense that the iconic flagship of Starfleet will make a return, too. But which one? Well, it could be one we know already.

A year has passed since Jordan Peele first let the world know the ominous title of his next movie; ever since, we’ve all been wondering what the heck Nope was going to be about. Each trailer pulled back the curtain a little bit, but when the film finally opened this past weekend, all was revealed. And it was a lot.Read more...

It’s hard to get the majority of the U.S. Senate to agree on anything, but apparently more than 60% of the upper house of Congress agree that the country could use some more computer chips, $52 billion worth of chip manufacturing, to be exact.Read more...

An Egyptian TikToker living in Saudi Arabia was arrested this week by capital police in Riyadh, who claimed she made sexually suggestive comments to another woman in a live video and accused her of negatively affecting public morality.Read more...

When we think about sci-fi, about marching out into the stars and encountering aliens, we think of the future, of a time decades or centuries from now when humanity has technologically evolved to the point of interstellar travel. Stargate, however, took a shortcut. This was a franchise which asked, “what if we could…Read more...

Remember having to wait agonizingly long between new seasons of Rick and Morty? Those days are officially in the past. Adult Swim just announced the arrival date for the Emmy-winning series’ sixth season, and it’s almost exactly one year after the season five finale, with a global premiere set for September 4.Read more...

New research this week suggests that an aggressive brain cancer can hijack the brain’s own circuitry to further spread and render itself unstoppable. Researchers in Germany studied glioblastoma cells in mice and in the lab, finding that these tumors use some of the same mechanisms behind normal neuron development and…Read more...

Telecoms aren’t exactly known for superior customer service. Beleaguered customers have come to hopelessly accept full day-long service time windows, endless support line phone roundabouts, and increasingly offensive hidden fees as uncomfortable realities required to squeeze out basic necessities from borderline…Read more...

In the comics, Jennifer Walters becomes She-Hulk because she received a blood transfusion from her cousin, Bruce Banner, the He-Hulk. In a new exclusive featurette from EW, we see how Walters (played by Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany) acquires her Hulk-powers, albeit a slightly toned-down and less rage-fueled version…Read more...

Like aquatic parasites, scammers have latched on to Facebook-based ad professionals whenever they stick their feet into the murky waters of anonymous networking. And according to two separate reports, LinkedIn has become a major thoroughfare for bad actors trying to attack ad professionals with invasive malware,…Read more...

Flash flooding in St. Louis joins a recent streak of dangerous weather in the U.S., as several thunderstorms brought record-breaking rainfall to the area, leaving at least one person dead and several stranded.

Google’s cloud-based operating system has come a long way since its inception. Every new software update seems to bring it closer to parity with Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac operating systems. A new ChromeOS update, due this fall, brings long-awaited features like native PDF and video editing. It also adds…Read more...

Experts are predicting that the gigantic core stage of a recently launched Long March 5B rocket will crash to Earth within a matter of days, but the precise location remains impossible to guess.Read more...

Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival. Previous features included an area busyness feature or grocery pickup, but these three new features: photorealistic…Read more...

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There’s no shortage of American horror, but venturing into the genre’s international waters is always recommended. We’ve found recent favorites from Scandinavia, Asia, Ireland, Brazil, and Australia by way of Serbia... but it’s films from Indonesia that have been giving us the most wonderfully potent nightmares.Read more...

R.I.P. to Car Thing, the Bluetooth dashboard accessory from Spotify that required you to use your smartphone alongside it, but didn’t do anything your phone couldn’t do already on its own.

The House of Mouse and its squeaky little underling Hulu have caved to Democrats’ pressure, saying they’ll be changing their ad policies so candidates can touch on issues like abortion, climate change, and the Jan. 6 insurrection, you know, just a few things voters might actually care about.Read more...

Dan Trachtenberg teases Prey’s goopiness. Get a look at Jameela Jamil’s Titania in She-Hulk. Todd McFarlane promises that his long-in-the-making Spawn movie won’t turn into a long-in-the-making streaming show. Plus, a new look at Showtime’s Let The Right One In adaptation. Spoilers now!

One of the strangest and longest-lived species of shark has been spotted far beyond its usual haunts. In new research this month, marine biologists report having found a sleeper shark in the western Caribbean waters near Belize for the first time. The discovery is the latest to suggest that these enigmatic creatures,…Read more...

After an intriguing teaser clip and literally 15 years of work, Guillermo del Toro’s The Adventures of Pinocchio finally gets a full length trailer. The film was created by stop-motion animation and was produced in part by the Jim Henson Company.

Florida’s largest utility company funneled money to a news website, which it then used to defend the utility’s positions and attack critics, two bombshell reports find. Leaked documents reviewed by both the Orlando Sentinel and the Miami Herald paint a portrait of how Florida Power and Light (FPL) executives used…Read more...

Space tourism company Space Perspective has unveiled the final design of its Spaceship Neptune—a pressurized capsule that will fly passengers to altitudes nearly 20 miles above Earth.Read more...

People get ripped off online all the time. They especially get ripped off in the world of cryptocurrency. You may even know a person who’s had their savings wiped out by a phony alt-coin. To keep you out of a similar situation, here’s a list (by no means exhaustive) of a few suggestions on how to avoid all that.Read more...

Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal how the company games out responses to tricky questions — and highlight what the company thinks its biggest public perception problems are. Chief among them: China.

At least 1 million people in the city of Wuhan, the city where covid-19 first spread to humans in late 2019, have entered lockdown, as China shows it’s still not ready to give up on eradicating the disease. And with the country reporting less than 1,000 new cases on Wednesday in a country of 1.4 billion people,…Read more...

If you plan to take on a toy line with an established brand that’s been around for almost 25 years, you need to bring something new to the playroom. For Hot Wheels, hoping to take on Tech Deck’s miniature skateboards, that involves partnering with Tony Hawk and introducing tiny finger-worn skate shoes. Sorry, what?Read more...

Dean Winchester (The Boys’ Jensen Ackles, who is also an executive producer) returns to narrate this lengthy trailer for Supernatural prequel The Winchesters, which shows the fateful night Mary (Meg Donnelly) and John (Drake Rodger) met back in 1972 while wailing on a black-eyed beastie—and each other! Check it out:

David Warner, who sadly passed away earlier this week, is beloved for his villainous turns. From Time After Time to Time Bandits, from Tron to Batman: The Animated Series’ Ra’s Al Ghul, the actor’s legendary career is paved with them. But perhaps his finest hour on television comes from his third and final Star Trek…Read more...

Meta, the company routinely railed against by experts and lawmakers for turbocharging covid-19 lies, wants its hand-picked Oversight Board to weigh in on whether the whole misinformation thing is still that big of a deal.Read more...

Alex Jones, the disinformation disseminator, InfoWars host, and human incarnation of a burst blood vessel, is facing yet another defamation trial—this time (once again) in Texas, where InfoWars is based. The civil trial began Tuesday, and is meant to determine how much money in damages Jones owes to parents of victims…Read more...

These days, if you’re single and ready to mingle, there are a wealth of dating apps to choose from—depending on what you’re looking for. For one-night stands, there’s Tinder; for respectful brunch dates, there’s Bumble; and for people who believe in both, there’s Hinge. Oh, but don’t forget Unjected—a dating app for…Read more...

Turquoise, pale grey, and sapphire streaks stand out against a dark taupe, earthen background in a satellite image from the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program. It’s a mesmerizing picture, conjuring more immediate associations with a painting than our planet, but it’s not a welcome sight for climate…Read more...