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The bunk theory of eugenics has come up once again as a talking point in the wake of the devastating May 14 Buffalo shooting, where a white gunman drove 200 miles to target people at a supermarket in a majority Black town, shooting 13 and killing 10.Read more...

I know a grand total of three people care about Dragon Ball in this day and age, but we’ve got a new trailer and it looks wonderfully bonkers. Alas, the voyage of Avenue 5 seems to be coming to an end. Riverdale continues to Riverdale the hell out of itself. Now look alive, Gold Leader, spoilers on your tail!Read more...

UK-based drug company GlaxoSmithKline will buy Boston-based vaccine developer Affinivax for $2.1 billion, according to press releases issued by the two companies early Tuesday. GSK will also pay up to $1.2 billion more if certain milestones are reached in Affinivax’s upcoming clinical trials for a new pneumococcal…Read more...

The last few years have been interesting for Star Wars as an IP. While the theatrical films more than made their money back (for the most part), and the franchise has seen a recent surge in the TV and books space, its gaming presence has been a bit messier. Both DICE and EA’s multiplayer-focused Star Wars Battlefront …Read more...

An impressive collection of 2,500-year-old ancient Egyptian artifacts was showcased today at the famous Saqqara necropolis.

If you’ve got a yearning to add a few more monsters, space explorers, magically gifted teens, supernatural detectives, alien translators, superheroes, cosplayers, and mages on missions to your summer reading list, look no further: io9 has got you covered with a giant avalanche of shiny new books for June!

Many of us remember moments on screen when all of a sudden you sit up because a song you recognize has come on. Music is universal, after all, and even when new characters are embodying the emotions of those songs, they can connect. Personally, I love a good needle drop (you can read my interview with Our Flag Means…Read more...

As a periodic meteor shower, the Tau Herculids tend to be quite boring, but astronomers have reason to believe that this year’s version might be different. Here’s what you need to know about when, where, and how to watch this promising celestial spectacle.Read more...

Banned and heavily challenged books are all the rage these days… at least for school districts in states like Florida and Texas. An April 2022 report from PEN America, a nonprofit that works to defend expression in literature, found that the number of banned books is on the rise. As of last month, school districts…Read more...

Star Wars Celebration has come to an end, and with it, a flood of news about what’s to come for Disney and Lucasfilm’s franchise. As always, that also meant plenty of incredible cosplay to marvel at. We got some photos for you earlier during the event, and now here’s one final deluge of pics for your viewing pleasure,…Read more...

The Orville’s much-anticipated third season premieres this week, and io9 got a chance to see a few episodes in advance. No spoilers here, but while you don’t need to have seen seasons one and two, the new season, dubbed New Horizons, does contain some callbacks to what’s come before. io9 asked creator and star Seth…Read more...

The one-two punch of Star Wars Celebration, along with the premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s first two episodes, have made for a pretty packed weekend. Even if you didn’t watch the daily livestreams of what was going on in Anaheim, it may have been a tad difficult to escape the orbit Disney and Lucasfilm’s moon-sized IP.

The animated side of Star Wars has served as home to some of the franchise’s most interesting works. When Star Wars Visions was released last year, it offered us different glimpses of George Lucas’ science fantasy world, through the eyes of powerhouses in Japanese animation such as Studio Trigger, Science SARU, and…Read more...

At the final day of Star Wars Celebration 2022, Lucasfilm and Disney+ have released the trailer for the second season of the hit animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It continues the tale of a band of “defective” Galactic Army clones that are on a journey to be more than obsolete as the Empire grows.

After many many delays, Tom Cruise comes roaring back to the big screen for 2022 with Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski, the sequel to the late Tony Scott’s original 1986 film brings back Cruise’s hypercompetent Navy airman Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he’s conscripted to train a new…Read more...

This is why Star Wars fans love Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. Two days after showing fans the first ever footage of The Mandalorian season 3, the pair decided to do more. Once again, they found themselves on stage at Star Wars Celebration, and though they could have just showed the same footage over again to a…Read more...

You may recall that towards the end of 2021, the Animation Guild was in contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for animation writers to have pay on par with writers for live action productions. If you have Twitter and follow several high profile people in the…Read more...

Tales of the Jedi’s mysterious arrival on the schedule of Star Wars Celebrations had fans all over speculating what the animated series could be. Now, as producer Dave Filoni revealed at the convention, we know it’s far from what people were expecting. And yet, still kind of a surprise.

When it’s not devoting entire sagas to one specific character or faction, Star Wars is putting out anthology adventures covering different slices of George Lucas’ space opera. Star Wars Visions offered us a different look at all parts of the galaxy, but the next anthology series is going a different route by narrowing…Read more...

This year’s fire season is already off to a grueling start in New Mexico, as the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire became the state’s largest wildfire in history earlier this month. The separate fires began in early April and had combined into one larger fire by the middle of that month, fueled by dry conditions and harsh…Read more...

Hinting at a tone unlike anything we’ve seen in the Star Wars universe, the Andor teaser gave us an exciting glimpse into the future of the franchise, by way of its past. One element of that is Andor’s score, composed by Nicholas Britell (Succession). From the chilling ringing of bells rhythmically rooting its story…Read more...

Few Star Wars characters have had quite the evolution like Ahsoka Tano. Famously debuting as Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the character slowly came into her own over the course of the show’s eventual seven-season run, serving as its ostensible protagonist. After being a recurring…Read more...

It’s surprising to look back and recall that in the time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down large public gatherings and now, as events slowly but surely continue to re-enter social life, that a whole new era of Star Wars has come into being. The High Republic may have had to weather a storm as it arrived over the…Read more...

This weekend is Star Wars Celebration 2022, and you know what that means: plenty of announcements! And also a lot of awesome cosplay. Check out some highlights that we got straight from the convention floor.

Stephen King has been successful for a long time, but the last five or six years especially have been very good for the prolific author. He’s had multiple high profile bestsellers becoming big-budget adaptations for TV and film of his most popular works, to say nothing of the many books he still manages to put out on…Read more...

My wrists are killing me. It’s probably because I’m getting older, but I also have carpal tunnel from years of bad posture and ergonomics. Ever since I started working from home—way before this pandemic hit—I’ve been slouching, improperly propping-up keyboards and monitors, and wielding the wrong kind of mice. The …Read more...

In 1993, telecom giant AT&T launched an advertising campaign that somehow predicted quite a lot of aspects of how we work and live today. The “You Will” ad series, directed by now-famed thrill-master David Fincher, was an eerily accurate look at what life in the mid to late 2000s would look like. The ads, narrated by…Read more...

International travel, severed heads, and farting. Those were three of the highlights of the 20th anniversary of Attack of the Clones panel held Friday at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim. Stars Temuera Morrison, Daniel Logan, and Anthony Daniels were joined by designer Doug Chiang, effects wizard John Knoll, and sound…Read more...

Welcome back to io9's Toy Aisle, where this week we’re exclusively featuring toys revealed as part of Star Wars Celebration 2022 taking place in Anaheim, California, right now. That includes new collectibles from Lego, Hasbro, Mattel, Jazwares, Hot Toys, and countless other previews of where you’ll be spending your…Read more...

Today marks the release of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s first two episodes, and Disney wants you to be as immersed in as much Star Wars as possible. Beyond this weekend being Star Wars Celebration packed with all sorts of news, the studio has also put out John Williams’ full theme for the show, which you can listen to below. It’s…Read more...

Hold on to your hats as the Mars helicopter takes us on another ride over the Red Planet. NASA released new footage of the Ingenuity helicopter’s 25th flight, revealing the tiny rotorcraft’s longest and fastest excursion yet.Read more...

In anticipation of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites posing as a threat, military researchers in China want their nation to be ready to disable, or perhaps completely destroy, the gigantic internet constellation. It’s an ominous possibility, but one easier said than done.

It feels like so long ago, but it’s only been three years since Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order arrived to near critical acclaim and even bigger sales. At the time, no one knew what to expect from Titanfall developer Respawn’s first foray into the Star Wars universe, but the single-player outing for Order 66 survivor Cal…Read more...

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Three Republican Senators have proposed a bill to try and ban the use of apps that support China’s digital currency, also known as e-CNY or digital yuan, over concerns that the Chinese government could use the currency to spy on U.S. citizens.Read more...

Evidence from the tragic death of a 5-year-old boy in 2008 may finally settle the debate over a mysterious polio-like condition that’s been paralyzing children for years. Researchers this week say they’ve found clear traces of enterovirus D68 in the nerve cells of the child, who likely died from acute flaccid…Read more...

Samsung just teased the marquee feature for its upcoming flagship smartphones, and it’s downright adorable—the teaser, that is. Anyhow, to flex the capabilities of its upcoming 200-megapixel mobile image sensor, Samsung took the obvious route: snap a photo of a sweet housecat, blow it up to be roughly 1.5x the size of…Read more...

If you’re reading a site like io9 or Gizmodo, chances are Industrial Light and Magic has had an impact on your life. Created by George Lucas to help him make a little film called Star Wars, the company has been at the forefront of visual and special effects, working on basically every major sci-fi and fantasy film in…Read more...

A fourth attempt to complete a full-fledged launch rehearsal of NASA’s Space Launch System has been slated for June. NASA’s ground teams say they’ve resolved a batch of technical issues that prevented the practice session from happening in April. For this next test, they will fill the giant rocket with super-cooled…Read more...

Events surrounding the purchase of Twitter are growing ever-more complicated, and it seems like by the end of this adventure, neither Tesla CEO Elon Musk nor the Twitter board will walk away unscathed.Read more...

Universal Studios Orlando goes retro for the summer celebrating some of its iconic rides, Stranger Things opens multiple gates to visit Hawkins, Disneyland Paris unveils Avengers Campus details, and Walt Disney World’s latest coaster Guardians Cosmic Rewind finally opens. Here’s your weekly guide to the latest news…Read more...

The European Space Agency is joining forces with Astroscale, an orbital debris removal company, to thin the massive cloud of space debris orbiting Earth. This effort will pave the way for communications company OneWeb to continue building its telecommunication network.

Some of the most interesting features promised for the Analogue Pocket didn’t make the cut when the console finally shipped late last year, but in a short blog post today, the company revealed that Pocket OS v1.1 will officially be available starting in July, although initially as a public beta for those who like to…Read more...

In the wake of some incredibly demoralizing news that’s come out of the Supreme Court recently, it looks like they may have done some good: the Court will allow the Biden administration to use monetary estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for future policymaking.

Static Shock was one of the more comparatively underrated superhero shows of the early 2000s, and the character’s return to the popular culture has been slow going. He and other Milestone characters are now enjoying a return in the comics space, and he’s due to theoretically receive a movie sometime in the near…Read more...

A man in the UK appears to be the first person to have gotten a double-hand transplant for his particular condition, known as scleroderma. Five months after the surgery, the patient and his new limbs are reportedly doing just fine.Read more...

Apple’s ill-fated Butterfly keyboard was unreliable, but not everyone hated how the keys felt. In fact, some folks prefer those shallow keys, as they don’t require as much force to actuate. My colleague Jody Serrano, who is unashamed of her preference for Mac-like keys, is searching for a low-profile wireless keyboard…Read more...

For much of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s pre-release buildup, the focus was rightly on how time has changed Ewan McGregor’s titular Jedi, and the eventual round two he’d have with Anakin Skywalker. But this being Star Wars in the Disney era, the trailers hid what the show would actually be about, so as to fuel speculation and…Read more...

You may have never realized it, but you don’t necessarily have to settle for the keyboard defaults that you get on your laptop out of the box: If you want different keys to trigger different actions besides the default ones, it’s possible to customize them—and that opens up a wealth of new options for you in terms of…Read more...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this week that it’s likely we could once again be in for a very active hurricane season. As global warming supercharges ocean temperatures and the possibility of bigger, badder storms, a little-known current in the Gulf of Mexico may also be preparing to wreak…Read more...