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Forget about Twitter Blue, Elon Musk’s introducing Twitter Gray.Read more...

The collapse and buyout of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges FTX is set to hurt the company’s investors bigtime. Notably, one of those investors is one of American Football’s most well-known players who may be stuck on the field even longer than he wants to be.Read more...

Monday, November 14 was supposed to be the day that the Space Launch System finally takes flight, but a late-season tropical storm has forced NASA to bump the launch back, but thankfully not by a whole lot. The space agency opted to leave SLS on the launch pad, saying it’s designed to withstand storms of this…Read more...

Does Apple plan to ever release an iPhone or iPad with a folding screen? If so, the company doesn’t seem to be in any rush to get it out the door. Instead of jumping ship to Android to hop on the folding screen bandwagon, a group of talented Chinese engineers claims…Read more...

James Gunn might be helping a Lobo project get off of the ground. Luca Guadagnino wants to reboot The Mummy. The Imperfects is no more at Netflix. Plus, what’s coming on the penultimate Walking Dead, and a look at the opening title sequence to Wednesday. To me, my spoilers!

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would be laying off 11,000 employees, 13% of its workforce. The cuts are part of an effort to become leaner after the company reported declined in revenue for two straight quarters, encountered stagnating user growth and a sluggish pivot to “the metaverse,” and saw…Read more...

The U.S. government often purchases office furniture and other goods made for pennies on the dollar by American prisoners. Believe it or not, it’s been happening for decades. And Gizmodo has obtained documents that provide a peek at what prison labor products U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in particular has…Read more...

Stolen health records for millions of Australians have been publicly released on the dark web following a threat by hackers 24 hours earlier to do precisely that. Last month, the unknown hackers demanded a ransom from Medibank, a private insurance provider in Australia, which the company refused to pay.Read more...

Archaeologists in Israel say they have found the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an alphabet used by the long-ago inhabitants of the region and until now lost to time.Read more...

When you think of The Addams Family, odds are the first thing you think of is its theme song: “They’re creepy and they’re kooky/mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky/the Addams family,” snap, snap, etc. And so one might think the reveal of the credits sequence for Wednesday, the upcoming Addams-inspired showRead more...

It only takes a day or so of using Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter, for you to conquer the basics. Nearly all of the features one uses daily should be more or less familiar. I’m referring to the bare essentials: publishing and replying to posts, using hashtags, and using tools like…Read more...

Returning to Wakanda has been a long-anticipated moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now with the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the cast and creative team are celebrating a culmination of sharing their labor of love in response to the absence of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who passed away…Read more...

First, it came for the crypto shills and startups and then, the Silicon Valley legacy brands. Now, the dreaded 2022 tech layoffs are sinking their talons into birds. No, not that bird. We’re talking about drone-killing eagles.Read more...

Considering the slew of people Twitter owner Elon Musk has banned from his newly acquired social network, it didn’t seem surprising when ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic expressed outrage that Harry Potter star and Weird Al impersonator Daniel Radcliffe was among those kicked off on Monday. Yet—though it may be hard to believe—it…Read more...

It’s Election Day across the U.S. and the stakes are high. We’re at a tense political point. Last week, Arizona even had to issue a restraining orders against the conservative, sometimes armed, militia members showing up at early voting sites. And the spread of a burgeoning conspiracy theory on Twitter is an…Read more...

If you’ve been enjoying the gothic, horny, campy craziness of AMC’s TV adaptation of Interview With the Vampire, well, so are we. It’s a lot of fun, especially in how wonderfully and accurately it captures the magic of Anne Rice’s 1976 novel while still updating the story. But if the TV show continues and it stays…Read more...

After recalling more than 40,000 vehicles, Tesla has released a software update to try and fix the issue that may have lead to a loss of power steering assistance.Read more...

With Indiana Jones 5 set to be the last time Harrison Ford dons the hat and whip, seemingly for real this time, the world of the globe-trotting, Nazi-decking archaeologist might live on beyond him in a new streaming show.

We may be finally drawing close to the end of the migraine-inducing episodic Theranos drama, and we’re not even talking about the Hulu show. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes now has a sentencing date after being convicted of scamming close to $900 million from investors with her company’s blood testing startup.Read more...

One of the nearly 4,000 Twitter employees laid off in the company‘s tumultuous post-Elon Musk acquisition says the company illegally targeted him for trying to help fellow employees save documents prior to their abrupt removal from the company.Read more...

For all of Apple’s talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones do have a privacy setting that is supposed to turn off that tracking. According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with its own apps…Read more...

Winston—the linchpin of the John Wick universe—is not only getting an origin series on Peacock exploring his younger days, he’ll also appear in spin-off movie Ballerina. There, the de facto Continental boss will be played by Ian McShane, who originated the character opposite Keanu Reeves in 2014's John Wick.Read more...

Parts of Florida’s East Coast and multiple islands in the Bahamas are under a hurricane warning. Tropical Storm Nicole is about 310 miles away from the northwestern Bahamas and 420 miles away from West Palm Beach, and is expected to grow stronger, into a category 1 hurricane, as it moves westward, according to a…Read more...

How do you grieve in a land where art is forbidden? That’s the fascinating question at the heart of Tales From the Umbrella Academy writer I.N.J. Culbard’s new graphic novel, the latest release from Karen Berger’s comics imprint at Dark Horse—and io9 has a sumptuous look inside.Read more...

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Every photographer eventually runs into the question of how to make prints. Maybe a client wants one as part of their package for a wedding, or a follower absolutely loves a shot you posted on Instagram and wants to hang it in their home. Maybe you just want to hold the work you’re proud of in your own hands and hang…Read more...

This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled drought is reshaping communities, economies, and ecosystems. You can subscribe to Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

Way back in 2019, io9 revealed an excerpt from Chuck Wendig’s apocalyptic thriller Wanderers—a book about a pandemic of sorts that went on to be a hit amid a real-world pandemic. Then, in late 2021, we revealed the cover and prologue for its sequel, Wayward, which was originally due in August 2022. That got bumped a…Read more...

After a hiatus, one of Webb Space Telescope’s cameras will be fully operational again following an engineering test that took place last week.Read more...

The future is uncertain, and on many days it can feel bleak. We’re barreling towards catastrophic climate change, for instance. Social media has become a catalyst for the spread of dangerous conspiracy theories and disinformation. The U.S. is deeply politically divided. And, of course, there’s still a rapidly evolving…Read more...

More than one thousand of some of Kenya’s most endangered animals have died this year because of a devastating drought gripping the region.

The crypto winter has swallowed one of the world’s leading crypto suppliers. FTX, which up until now was ranked the third largest exchange by trading volume, announced Tuesday they were being acquired by rival exchange Binance, the absolute largest exchange in the biz.Read more...

Hollywood loves a good underdog story, and this year, there wasn’t a bigger underdog success than indie sensation Terrifier 2. A sequel to an even smaller 2016 film, the gross-out slasher about a killer clown named Art opened last month with little fanfare outside of the horror community. That it got a theatrical…Read more...

Add yet another mysterious Star Wars movie to the mix. Deadline reports that Shawn Levy, the prolific director and producer behind Stranger Things, Night at the Museum, and Free Guy is gearing up to develop a film in a galaxy far far away. He’ll focus on that after completing Deadpool 3, which stars Ryan Reynolds and…Read more...

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Unlike $20 digital Casios, mechanical watches are incredibly finicky devices, and their ability to keep accurate time can be affected by a number of factors, from the weather to how they’re worn. Swiss watchmaker De Bethune has come up with an incredibly over-the-top way to calibrate its timepieces to avoid issues, by…Read more...

That Black Panther: Wakanda Forever works completely defies logic. The film juggles so many storylines, so many characters, and so many emotions, when you’re watching it, you half expect it to fall apart. Which, frankly, most of the audience would probably be okay with. It’s not every day a major Hollywood blockbuster…Read more...

About 50,000 people registered for the New York City Marathon this year. It was the first time the race was at full capacity since 2019 and the beginning of the pandemic. Yet not all of those who started the marathon made it to the end. More than 2,000 runners did not cross the finish line before the cut-off time.…Read more...

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This morning, the Sun, Earth, and Moon aligned in such a way that our planet’s shadow completely enveloped the Moon in a lunar eclipse. During the fleeting event, the Moon took on a blood-red hue across many parts of the world.Read more...

It was only a matter of time, really.Read more...

A Colorado-based auto detailing company has recalled its hand sanitizer from the market due to it possibly containing methanol, a toxic type of alcohol that could lead to death if ingested.Read more...

How many Avatar movies does one person need in a single lifetime? For years—pretty much since the film debuted in 2009, becoming the highest-grossing movie in the world—that number was five, according to director James Cameron. Now, he seems to be hedging his bets on his giant, lanky blue cat people.

One former star of the luxury Instagram influencer circuit will spend some time behind bars after he admitted to gaining much of his wealth through a massive, international money laundering and fraud scheme.

The price of gadgets is only going to continue to increase, making the sting of accidentally dropping your smartphone or tablet and watching the screen shatter to thousands of pieces even more painful. But what if screens were the most durable part of a touchscreen device? That’s a future I’m ready for, and one that…Read more...

The cast of Dwayne Johnson’s wild Santa Netflix movie Red One continues to get more absurd. Chris Pratt’s Garfield adds a few more faces to its cast. The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon spinoff has found a major star. Plus, The Umbrella Academy teases its end. Spoilers, away!

What do our creations think of us?Read more...

NASA’s JPL is struggling with issues related to budget, staffing, and poor communications, forcing the space agency to delay a highly anticipated mission to Venus.Read more...

TikTok, once viewed by many as a type of digital life raft largely removed from politics, may be “consistently and dramatically suppressing,” nonpartisan voting content on its platform amid the high stakes midterm elections. If confirmed, the supposed suppression efforts could risk reigniting still smoldering concerns…Read more...

Update November 8, 10:00 a.m. EST: The Powerball numbers have officially been drawn following last night’s security issue.Read more...