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Hackers Took Over the British Army's YouTube and Twitter Accounts to Promote NFTs and Other Crypto Scams
Over the weekend, while many in the United States were pre-gaming today’s Fourth of July holiday celebrations, in the UK, the British Army was scrambling to regain control its Twitter and YouTube accounts that had both been hacked to promote NFTs and other crypto investment scans.Read more...
How Westworld Season 4 Winks at the Violent Delights in Its Past
With Westworld now two episodes into its fourth season—and its seven-year time jump established—it’s clear that the HBO Max sci-fi series is navigating some fresh terrain as far as its setting goes. But for all the newness, there’s no escaping a certain... familiarity that hovers over certain scenes.Read more...
Scientists Uncover Spectacular New Species of Giant Water Lily
An international team of scientists has shown that two species of giant water lily are actually three, and that the newly discovered species, at 10.5 feet across, is the largest of the bunch.Read more...
Andor's Second Season Will Jump a Year Every 3 Episodes
Star Wars might have only just got done with one TV series, but it’s already on to the next—and Andor might be one of the most intriguing shows in the galaxy far, far away so far, if only for the immense span of time it’s going to cover.
Someone Got YouTube Videos To Play on a 40-Year-Old Computer That Can Only Display Green Text
Some of the best hacks don’t solve any real world problems or reinvent the wheel. They’re usually nothing more than an exercise in trying to make something work that is either seemingly impossible or pointless: such as getting YouTube to work on a 40-year-old computer with a hideously outdated display.Read more...
July's List of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Is Here, and It's Huge
July’s hefty pile of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror releases brings lesbian vampires, politically motivated magic, interstellar bounty hunters, a jazz musician who teams up with mecha pilots, mermaids, robots, fairy-tale riffs, and so much more. There’s still plenty of summer reading time left, so what are you…Read more...
Report: The Apple Watch Series 8 May Expand Its Health Tracking to Include Fever Detection
Over the course of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of us finally upgraded from an old-school “where do I stick this?” glass thermometer to an easier to use infrared model for detecting fevers. But those hankering to upgrade their Apple Watch in the Fall could end up with an ever easier fever-detecting tool.Read more...
On Westworld, Hale's Plan Is Much More Sinister Than We Thought
Is Westworld even Westworld if it’s not trying to break your brain? It’s a valid question, and I think “no” would be a valid answer. But since the show left the park at the end of season two to explore the dystopia of the real world, the third season felt like everything was a mystery until the final pair of episodes,…Read more...
5 Cyber Stories You Missed This Week
Some weeks are busier than others when it comes to digital mischief, and this week was pretty damn busy. So many good hacker stories got written this week that we figured we would throw together a little round-up. It’s good to stay on your toes when it comes to the digital dangers out there on the internet. In case…Read more...
The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Opening is a Splashy, Colorful Bop
The Cyberpunk 2077 train keeps going, despite its rocky protracted launch. Now that the game’s been patched into a playable (and enjoyable) state, and DLC is on the horizon, it’s the perfect time for Netflix to release that Edgerunners tie-in anime they offered us a first look at last month during their week long…Read more...
The Minions Sequel is Taking the Box Office By Storm, Prepare Yourselves
Illumination’s Minions—those goggle-wearing, babbling yellow monstrosities—have very clearly outgrown the Despicable Me franchise they first appeared in all the way back in 2010. Beyond their titular spinoff movie releasing in 2015 and earned $1.16 billion at the box office, the creatures have become a cultural fixtureRead more...
For Better or Worse, Michael Bay's Transformers is a Trailblazer
Ever since the late 1990s, we’ve been living in an era of IP-focused filmmaking that’s proceeded to get more elaborate and louder with each year. There are plenty of genre films one could point as being important or iconic in some way, from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films to Batman Begins and Independence Day. And…Read more...
Trigun Stampede's First Look Teases a Colorful Reboot
Just a few weeks ago, it was announced that Trigun, one of the most beloved anime series of the late 90s, was getting a remake. Surprisingly, the first look at this new version of the sci-fi western has come pretty quickly, as footage debuted on Saturday at Anime Expo in Los Angeles.
Bleach is Back, and Hot Damn, It Looks Good
Shonen anime fans rejoiced late Saturday evening when, at Los Angeles’ Anime Expo, new footage debuted for the return of Bleach. The popular Toonami series ended back in 2014, just two years before the manga by creator Tite Kubo would wrap up with 2016's “Thousand-Year Blood War” arc. Late last year, it was announced…Read more...
Taron Egerton Hopes to Join the MCU By Playing Wolverine
Ever since Fox got themselves snatched up Disney and Kevin Feige made it clear that the mutants would be making their way to the MCU eventually, there’s been no shortage of speculation about who’ll be playing the new batch of X-Men. Moreso than Professor X or Magneto, Wolverine is the one that everyone’s got some…Read more...
Tell Us About Your Pop Culture Month: June 2022 Edition
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Spider-Man's Next Comic Brings Back Writer Dan Slott
Writer Dan Slott has had a long, sometimes controversial history with Spider-Man. He’s the man behind the story for the Shattered Dimensions video game, along with the architect behind the “Superior Spider-Man” arc where Peter Parker died (technically) and had his body jacked by Doctor Octopus. When he jumped ship…Read more...
'Gasps' as Scientists Reveal Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth
She’s over 30,000 years old, and yet her preservation is astounding: She has her skin, her tiny tusk nubs, her toenails, and her little tail. She still has tufts of fur, and her trunk—with its prehensile tip—is complete and malleable. Looking at the initial photograph from where she was found at a Yukon gold mine, she…Read more...
RWBY's First Movie is a Crossover With the Justice League
There’ve been no shortage of IP crossovers in recent years, particularly from Warner Bros. Space Jam 2 was basically WB’s crossover Comic-Con, and it doesn’t appear that they’ll be stopping anytime soon. On the game side, they’ve got Multiversus, where DC superheroes will get to fight alongside Cartoon Network and HBO…Read more...
We Dare You to Feel Relaxed After Watching These 11 Cursed ASMR Videos
Are you one of the many, many people that gets a tingly kick from watching soft-spoken YouTubers tapping and whispering into their mics from hours on end? Have I got some bad vibes for you.Read more...
10 Years After the Higgs Boson, What's the Next Big Thing for Physics?
On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN confirmed the observation of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle first proposed in the 1960s. The boson’s discovery was a momentous occasion, as it meant physicists were a step closer to probing the field associated with the boson, which gives particles mass.
RadioShack's Twitter Wasn't Hacked, It's Just a Crypto Shill Now
This week, the Twitter account for RadioShack went from just weird to totally apeshit. In short order, the company’s entire feed became a veritable trove of NSFW material, including musings about vibrators, “big tittes” (misspelling theirs), and tweets trolling celebrities and other corporate accounts. Remarks ranged…Read more...
Is Google's $90 Million Settlement a Win for App Developers, or for Google?
Small app developers pried $90 million from Google in a legal settlement announced Friday, hot on the heels of a similar agreement with Apple.Read more...
How Universal's E.T. Adventure Ride Still Captures the Magic of the Movie
There’s a timelessness to Steven Spielberg’s E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial—which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year—that can’t be denied. It encompasses movie magic on a level that transcends the screen through its music and its story of a friendship between a boy and an alien that defies the odds. It’s set to…Read more...
This Week's Toy News Definitely Bent Your Wookiee
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest nerdy toy news. This week wraps up Obi-Wan Wednesdays with two more Hasbro figures, Super7 heads back to Springfield and beyond for even more Simpsons Ultimates, and: do you dare to bop Darth Vader? Check it out!
The 12 Scariest Episodes of Star Trek
This week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds delivered what might just be the closest Star Trek has ever gotten to an episode of genuine horror. Jump scares, tension, blood, gore, and lots of screaming, it had it all—but it’s far from the first time Trek’s trended terrifying. Here’s a few more of our creepy favorites.
Spoilers of the Week: July 1st
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Here's What's Actually in Disney's Absurd $5,000 Star Wars Cocktail
If you’ve been curious to know what’s in that infamous $5,000 Star Wars-themed drink, it’s no longer a complete mystery. The Kaiburr Crystal, available exclusively aboard the Disney Wish cruise ship in its Hyperspace Lounge, is an extravagantly presented, themed cocktail that should come with the camtono it’s served…Read more...
Privacy Advocates Lambast Virginia for Ditching Police Facial Recognition Ban
A patchwork of individual state privacy laws isn’t filling the hole left by absent federal government regulation on facial recognition. Virginia, which approved a ban on local police use of biometric identification tools around a year ago, formally bailed on the law’s most substantive measures on Friday. Now, under an…Read more...
Black Tesla Workers Say They Were Called the N-Word on Factory Floors
A group of Black Tesla employees have filed suit against the company, claiming that they were subjected to racial discrimination at its factories in California. Tesla is facing at least 10 suits alleging sexual or racial harassment, including one recently filed by a Tesla shareholder accusing the company of harboring…Read more...
Watch Hideaki Anno Live His Best Life as Shin Ultraman's Mocap Actor
Hideaki Anno seems to just be doing whatever the hell he wants after he finally wrapped up Neon Genesis Evangelion (for now, at least). He got to make an Ultraman movie and he’s now directing a Kamen Rider one, letting him live out creating a new chapter for two of his lifelong superhero obsessions. And it turns out…Read more...
The Original Plans for the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Series Were Wild
Whether you loved the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series or it left you feeling disconnected from the Force of the Star Wars franchise, it’s interesting to think about the show we might have gotten. While we heard earlier this week that the show planned to kill off the villain Reva, and that the initial plan was to make a…Read more...
Raspberry Pi Pico W Adds Wi-Fi, Costs Just $6
Raspberry Pi is adding to its family of ultra-low-cost microcontrollers with the debut of three new Pico models. Perhaps the one DIYers will be most excited to see is the Pico W, an exact copy of the original Pico except with the addition of 802.11 Wi-Fi connectivity, a feature that will significantly enhance the…Read more...
Yellowstone Bison Clearly Fed Up With People After Third Goring of 2022
To “gore” is to “pierce or wound with something pointy (such as a horn or knife),” according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. With that context, I can now tell you that a 71-year-old woman was gored by a bison this week in Yellowstone National Park.
A Fleet of Confused Self-Driving Cars Stopped in the Middle of a Street for Hours
Have autonomous driving cars reached AI sentience? Are the robotaxis planning a robo-takeover? It seemed like they might be when they blocked traffic for hours Tuesday night in San Francisco. Then, when you looked a bit closer, you could see that that the eight self-driving Cruise vehicles had navigated to the same…Read more...
Elon Musk's Starlink Can Now Beam Wifi to Cars, Boats, and Planes
Starlink just got the green light to expand on land, air and sea. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized SpaceX to provide Starlink wifi to vehicles in motion, including semitrucks and RVs, planes, and boats.Read more...
The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in July 2022
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...
Climate Change Is Shifting How Plants Evolve. Seed Banks May Have to Adapt, Too
The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches a couple of feet tall and produces clusters of small, yellow flowers perched atop spindly green stalks. It is the nearest wild relative to such produce aisle hits as turnips,…Read more...
TikTok CEO Tries to Placate Republicans, Claims App Keeps User Data From Beijing
TikTok executives are attempting to assuage Republican officials that U.S. data is safe and sound in company hands, but their best attempts are unlikely to make any of these GOP lawmakers stray from the warpath against the popular social app.Read more...
The Way Sigourney Weaver Is Back for Avatar 2 Is Absolutely Unhinged
Ever since we first heard, approximately 17 billion years ago, that Sigourney Weaver would return for James Cameron’s Avatar sequels, we were all perplexed (even more so than with the idea of there being multiple Avatar sequels). But now we actually know how Weaver is coming back, we’re... somehow even more perplexed.
Apple Jacks up iPhone and iPad Prices in Japan
Apple products in Japan are becoming more expensive. The iPhone 13, for example, was found to be as much priced 19% higher than it . Prices of the smartphone have been rising with the launch of new models, but this price hike in Japan seems to have affected even older generations of iPhones as the value of the Yen has…Read more...
Biden Awards Steve Jobs With Posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
It’s been a busy week at the White House. Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, a trip overseas, and calls to change the filibuster, President Biden today announced the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And Steve Jobs has posthumously made the cut.Read more...
What It Really Takes to Get Food to Your Plate
Getting food from a field to our markets or even our plates creates more emissions than previously estimated. A study published in Nature Food found that the mileage on food (or “food miles”) is responsible for about 6% of all greenhouse gas emissions, making the associated emissions 3.5 to 7.5 times higher than prior…Read more...
Apple’s Former Top Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
The man who once in charge of making sure Apple’s employees stayed on the straight and narrow is going to jail for doing the thing he told them never to do with stock trades: game the system.Read more...
Yeehaw, the EU Agreed on Laws to Reign in the Crypto 'Wild West'
The European Union is planning to temper the volatility of cryptocurrency with a regulatory framework that would establish consumer protection against crypto scams and forces crypto companies to disclose their environmental impact.
Run Up That Hill to Your Stranger Things Season 4 Finale Spoiler Zone
You might be wondering to yourself, “Who the hell has already watched the last two episodes of Stranger Things season four? It’s four hours long!” You’d be surprised (as was I)—so many people tuned into Netflix at 3:00 a.m. ET, the moment the two episodes went live, the streaming service actually crashed. That’s…Read more...
Meta Feels the Downturn Burn, Slashes Hiring by 30%
Big tech is going through a hard time. Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, has become the canary in the coal mine after its stock plummeted in February, months before other tech giants. Now, in an ominous turn, the company is slashing its hiring of engineers by 30%, from about 10,000 to between 6,000 and 7,000…Read more...
We Can’t Wait for These Futuristic Rockets to Finally Blast Off
Rockets remain the best way to escape our planet’s gravity well, and our firm handle on this technology means we’re now tossing more things into space than ever before. The public and private sectors are working feverishly to build launch vehicles that are powerful, affordable, and—very importantly—reliable. Indeed,…Read more...
Christian Bale Teases Thor: Love and Thunder's Deleted Scenes
The Boys’ viral marketing addresses last week’s explosive episode. Sony’s Horizon: Zero Dawn TV show could start filming very soon. Somehow, La Brea will return. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale, and a new look at the return of American Horror Stories. To me, my spoilers!
Greg Abbott Sued for Claiming He Had Zero Contact With NRA After Uvalde
A legal watchdog group has filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, and its embattled attorney general, Ken Paxton, of trying to conceal records of any discussions their offices may have had with gun advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association, in the wake of Uvalde shooting.
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