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Game of Thrones might have been one of the biggest shows to ever grace a television screen, but it was not without its issues. In addition to fans being disappointed at how the story ended, the show was rightfully criticized about its often unflattering portrayals of women and its lack of diversity, to name just two…Read more...

Mission controllers with the European Space Agency were forced to relocate a science satellite upon detecting a threatening piece of space junk, and they did so with very little time to spare—just 8 hours notice, which isn’t a lot of time when it comes to managing objects in space.Read more...

Ah, Uber. Love it or hate it, the ride-sharing company has revolutionized the way we travel so much so that the word “Uber” is the eponym most people use to refer to any ride they’ve hailed via smartphone, regardless of the actual brand. One thing about Uber, however, is that prices have gone up—point, blank, period.…Read more...

A massive, $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory is coming to Kansas. The Wednesday announcement followed about 45 minutes of closed door discussion between company and state stakeholders, where media were excluded, according to a report from the Topeka Capital-Journal.

French fries and ketchup are a perfect culinary pairing, but have you ever struggled to get enough of the condiment during a dip, given fries are nothing more than a potato stick? Apparently it’s a problem, and one that Heinz has endeavored to solve by way of spoon-shaped french fry.Read more...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake isn’t looking so great.Read more...

Fantasy, especially secondary world fantasy, is a genre about imagination, creating new worlds with different views of everything from culture to economics to the limits of physics, and in many respects, presuming no limitations at all. In that imagining (to paraphrase Max Gladstone), it implies a critique, a…Read more...

General Motors wants to end any Little Red Riding Hood situations for electric vehicle owners, hoping you’ll not have to stray too far from the well-trodden path when taking your EV long-distance.Read more...

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Alex Jones has a lot to say—just not on the topic of white supremacy. In a Connecticut court document filed Wednesday, Jones’ legal team motioned to limit expert testimony on white supremacy and far-right extremism as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Jones in response to his comments surrounding the Sandy Hook…Read more...

The invasion of Ukraine has taken a toll on Russia’s ongoing partnerships with the U.S. and Europe in space. Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced that it’s fully terminating its cooperation with its Russian counterpart on an upcoming mission to Mars, prompting Roscosmos to threaten access to Europe’s new…Read more...

Nintendo’s surprise collaboration with Illumination to bring about a new animated Super Mario movie a few years ago signalled a major sea change for a games publisher that has, for the most part, largely been reticent to bring its gaming icons to other media after an explosion of tie-ins in the ‘90s. Now, that might…Read more...

There’s good news for Sega fans stressing over potentially having to pay steep import fees to bring the recently announced Mega Drive Mini 2 Console to the US. Yesterday, the company revealed the mini console would be coming to North America too on the same day, but will be called the Sega Genesis Mini 2 here.Read more...

Get a look at the return of Esther in the first footage from Orphan: First Kill. Jeff Goldblum joins Olympus in some Kaos casting reshuffling. Plus, what’s coming on Evil and What We Do in the Shadows, and... zombie dogs, anyone? Spoilers go!

Glassy-eyed Twitter addicts on Thursday morning were shocked to find the site down and out of commission.Read more...

I’m going to cut to the chase. The MacBook Air 2022 is, currently, the M2 Apple device to get. Not only does it boast the same internals as the MacBook Pro 13-inch, save for a fan, but it’s also got a redesigned look and feel that makes it stand out from prior Air devices and feel truly modern. Its biggest drawback is…Read more...

A former Central Intelligence Agency computer engineer has been convicted of leaking a large tranche of classified material that revealed some of the agency’s most powerful hacking techniques. Joshua Schulte, 33, worked for an elite software team within the CIA when he stole a cache of documents in 2016 and shared…Read more...

Sprawling vistas, snowcovered mountains, epic battles on horseback, villains made of deadly fire, creatures with large feet taking a leisurely stroll across the field. Yup, this is Lord of the Rings all right.

The defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull isn’t He-Man, at least not today. That honor currently goes to PJ Lewis, who’s been leading the Masters of the Universe franchise into multiple toylines and animated series over the past few years. He-Man is presumably taking a well-deserved break for his 40th birthday,…Read more...

Three years in, the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic continue to reverberate around the world. The widescale, if unequal, distribution of vaccines has surely saved millions of lives and lessened people’s misery since the beginning of 2021. But thousands of people worldwide are still dying, and millions are getting…Read more...

Celsius filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Wednesday, leaving users wondering if they’ll ever again see the money they put into the crypto platform. Unfortunately for the average user, they’ll have to wait in line with the company’s other creditors, something that was made explicit in the platform’s…Read more...

Men living in the United States are far sicker than men in similarly wealthy countries, a new report has found. Among other things, American men are more likely to die early from preventable causes than those living in 10 other countries, including Canada, Australia, and the UK. Financially struggling men also tended…Read more...

io9 was invited to preview the Jupiter’s Claim set from Jordan Peele’s Nope, soon to be featured on the legendary Studio Tour attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood. While the plot of the film is still very under wraps, we were able to participate in an immersive carnival experience as we explored the real…Read more...

A young woman finds herself trapped in a “private dollhouse.” Another young woman opines, “People are the most interesting right after death.” Yet another young woman is taunted by her friends for feeling fear. Plus: Serial killers! Body horror! Eyeballs in extreme close-up! American Horror Stories is coming back, and…Read more...

Paramount+ series Evil is currently in its third season and was just renewed for a fourth—so it’s safe to say it has plenty of fans already gobbling up its unique blend of mystery, religion, monsters, and mayhem. But for anyone who needs more convincing, here are 10 reasons why you should be tuning in.

Ring is rejecting the request of a U.S. senator to introduce privacy-enhancing changes to its flagship doorbell video camera after product testing showed the device capable of recording conversations well beyond the doorsteps of its many millions of customers. Security and privacy experts expressed alarm at the…Read more...

By now, there’s no point in “reviewing” What We Do in the Shadows, a certified smash hit which returned this week to drop its first two season-four episodes on FX and Hulu, and has already been renewed for seasons five and six. So consider this more of an appreciation than a review, because in these dark times, we…Read more...

Scattershot budgets, lack of coordination, stalling research and development, and rapid worker turnover are threatening the Department of Energy’s ability to sufficiently store and secure the nation’s ever-growing trash bin of toxic nuclear waste.Read more...

We are here once again asking that you purchase games not from a massive online retailer plagued by allegations of environmental badness, worker abuse, industry monopolization, and more, but instead buy from rather less destructive places, like itch.io, the home of many an independent game designer! I’ve even made a…Read more...

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Were you already feeling lukewarm about Netflix looking to create a cheaper ad-supported tier for subscribers? Would it make you feel better if you knew that big boy Microsoft is now going to be the one shacked up with the streaming giant?Read more...

For some reason there’s this cloud of uncertainty around Rob Zombie’s upcoming film The Munsters. When it was first announced, it almost sounded like a joke. Something the House of 1000 Corpses director came up with on April Fools’ Day to get a few laughs. But slowly it became obvious not only was it real, it was…Read more...

Every year, we are blessed with even more emojis. The library of small, pictographs gets one step closer to usurping existing human languages as a nuanced mode of communication. Despite everything else happening, 2022 is no different: Unicode has released its list of emoji finalists that may or may not (but probably…Read more...

We’ve all been thinking about it: with all these new devices and gadgets on the horizon, will the supply chain be able to keep up with demand? According to some analysts, the forecast may be grim. The next iPhone might not even escape the scarcity of materials, with production for the speculated but unconfirmed iPhone…Read more...

Roll20 and OneBookShelf, the distribution platform for the massive online tabletop roleplaying game storefronts DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Master’s Guild, have announced that they are “leveling up” to form a joint venture. They aim to create a “seamless future of cross-platform PDF support” and hope to launch…Read more...

It turns out Mexico may actually pay for an expensive U.S. border wall after all, but certainly not in the way former president Donald Trump would have hoped.Read more...

The Ms. Marvel finale is here, and as you might expect, events are coming to a head. As Kamala (Iman Vellani) returns from Karachi with her mother (Zenobia Shroff), she doesn’t know that Kamran (Rish Shah) has received powers similar to hers from his now deceased mother Najma (Nimra Bucha), and is now being hunted by…Read more...

It’s hard to believe we’re already into day two of capitalism’s most sacred holiday. Amazon Prime Day happens just once a year (or maybe twice, if rumors are correct) and amongst all the legitimate bargains and deals worth grabbing, there are hundreds of products on sale that no discount will ever make appealing or…Read more...

It’s official: Android 13 is almost here. Google has announced it’s putting the finishing touches on the next version of the mobile operating system and that a fourth beta is ready for download. You’ll get the update over the air as soon as it rolls out to your device.

There’s more trouble with the Colonial Pipeline: The nation’s largest gasoline pipeline reported a spill in Tennessee in early July, adding onto more than a year of public problems with the company, from a catastrophic hacking to being responsible for the largest gasoline spill in decades.Read more...

The end of Strange New Worlds’ first season also brought an end to an unprecedented run of Star Trek releases—there’d been at least one new episode of a show running every week since early January this year. The franchise is taking a little break until it returns with Lower Decks, however... but you’re not going to be…Read more...

Unless you’ve got access to loads of gamma radiation or some mystical stones, your chances of becoming a real life superhero are very slim. The easier way to achieve your heroic aspirations is through Hasbro’s new Selfie Series: collector-grade six-inch figures featuring a custom 3D-printed version of your own face…Read more...

Snapchat just joined a slew of tech companies that are trying to get in on the NFT trend, adding their own twist on the digital art pieces. Snap is reportedly testing out ways for creators to display their NFTs as filters on the social media platform as a way to showcase their work to admiring fans.Read more...

TikTok is the wild west of social media feeds (and they’re all kinds of a wild west). A scroll could start on a dance trend, jump to a clip of raw chicken ‘marinating’ in NyQuil, and end on video of someone filing their own teeth. It’s weird out there, and occasionally dangerous. Now TikTok is taking its next steps…Read more...

After the official renewal announcement in May, Black Mirror is starting to reveal a number of new cast members. The anthology series broke out when it moved to Netflix from Britain’s Channel 4, making it an international sensation in 2014 when the streaming service first began releasing it. Now, for season 6, a whole…Read more...

Google is planning a hiring slowdown through the rest of 2022 with the exception of “critical roles,” according to a letter from CEO Sundar Pichai to employees across the company.

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights one of the many consequences of the covid-19 pandemic in the United States: a disturbing rise in drug-resistant superbug infections. The first year of the pandemic saw the number of resistant infections and deaths in hospitals once again climb,…Read more...

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Apparently, the electric scooter users in big cities can’t be trusted to stay off the sidewalks. Now one of the biggest micro-mobility companies is joining other rentable bike providers in tracking whether its users start riding dirty.Read more...

You never forget your first love, and for many digital photographers, that was the Game Boy Camera: a $90 low-resolution digital camera for the Game Boy released by Nintendo in 1998. Almost a quarter century later, there are still devoted fans of the lo-fi shooter, including Christopher Graves, who turned a Game Boy…Read more...