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More than 17 million Americans, including nearly 4 million children, are currently living within half a mile (0.8 kilometers) of an active upstream oil and gas facility and could be at risk of health impacts, an exhaustive new geospatial analysis released Tuesday finds. An updated interactive map, called the Oil and…Read more...

General Motors suffered a hack that exposed a significant amount of sensitive personal information on car owners—names, addresses, phone numbers, locations, car mileage, and maintenance history.Read more...

From day one, Star Wars made it very clear there’s no love lost between Owen Lars and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Lars calls Kenobi a “crazy old man” and tries to get Luke Skywalker to pay him no mind. Which, of course, doesn’t work. But that relationship got a fun new twist in the most recent trailer for Disney+’s Star Wars:…Read more...

China’s Zhurong rover is currently in safe mode as it waits out a Martian dust storm, according to Chinese state-run media, and it may remain in safe mode until the end of 2022.Read more...

Though The Boys loves to take aim at events going on in the United States and with various government figures, it is, at the end of the day, a superhero show. The superhero culture has gone through so much just in the last handful of years since the Prime Video series premiered, with one of the bigger events being the…Read more...

The man who allegedly tried to pay a visit the head honcho of the Terra blockchain May 13 finally spoke out Tuesday, telling reporters the crash of Terra and Luna left him financially devastated, and that he wanted to hear directly from Terra’s boss what the man’s plans were for the cryptocurrencies.Read more...

Cases of monkeypox continue to climb across the globe, with more than 200 confirmed and suspected cases documented in over 20 countries. Scientists are starting to gather their first clues about these outbreaks, including how the virus may have begun spreading farther than it ever has before.

More and more games are coming out than ever, and I’m so excited to be able to introduce you all to some incredible picks this week. We’ve got a game from #RPGSEA (Role Playing Games: South East Asia), Navathem’s End (funded via the Our Shores Kickstarter earlier this year), and a bunch of other incredible games to…Read more...

Asus just revealed the world’s first 500Hz monitor, the ROG Swift 500Hz. To be clear, this monitor is for the 1% of gamers—a tiny sliver of esports competitors who need the fastest refresh rates and lowest latency to give them an edge over the competition.

Shares of social media company Snap Inc. fell dramatically in what is poised to be the worst day ever for the company. Snap shares plunged as much as 40% on Tuesday morning, and the company announced that it would slow hiring, according to media reports.Read more...

Astronauts on board the International Space Station are readying the CST-100 Starliner for its return trip home, currently scheduled for Wednesday. The landmark mission is quickly winding down, as Boeing has completed several key tests of its new spacecraft while docked to the orbital outpost. It’s been a nail-biter…Read more...

SpaceX’s COO defended Elon Musk in an email to all employees after an allegation of sexual misconduct against the CEO surfaced last week.Read more...

I wish I didn’t understand a single word of that headline, but unfortunately I do. You probably do too—sorry.Read more...

If the world ever ends, the place to be is space. In space, the problems of the Earth don’t exist. There’s just a whole other set of problems. But maybe, just maybe, there are some solutions too. That’s the set up for Rubikon, a new sci-film coming to theaters and on-demand July 1.Read more...

Fans of shonen manga and anime have plenty of series they love—series we’ve talked about a few times on this site—and among the upper tier of those is Hunter x Hunter. Yoshihiro Togashi’s martial arts manga has been a commercial and critical success since it debuted in 1998, but due to Togashi’s health issues, it went…Read more...

Eddie Robson was inspired to write Drunk on All Your Strange New Words the night that Bong Joon Ho accepted his Oscars for Parasite. As he watched the director on stage, he observed Sharon Choi, Ho’s translator, as she worked. In a world that is constantly pushing towards automation, even automatic translation, what…Read more...

Walmart announced today in a press release that they are expanding their drone delivery fleet to bring customers their orders. The retailer is also looking to rollout more warehouse robots.

A new bill coming down the pike in the California state legislature could be a huge swing in precedent for parents’ ability to sue companies for what some consider addictive online content.Read more...

Back in 2019, io9 shared the first look at F.C. Yee’s Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi. The Shadow of Kyoshi followed in 2020. Next up is Yee’s third installment in the best-selling Chronicles of the Avatar series: The Dawn of Yangchen, and once again we’ve got a first peek at the story!

In addition to some sneaky undercover reveals from the Blue Beetle movie, we’ve also got some new film updates from Zoom-filmmaker Rob Savage’s newest, DASHCAM. It’s a light day for spoilers, but remember we got that Thor: Love and Thunder trailer last night? Go check that out after the spoilers below.

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It’s finally happened: Your kid is old enough to have their own smartphone. By the age of 11, half of all youngsters in the US have a cell, and your first thought after you’ve made the purchase is likely to be how you’re going to set up parental controls to stop them from wasting too much time on the thing and seeing…Read more...

Airbnb will cease business operations in China according to a new report from Reuters and several other news outlets. The company will officially shut down in the country starting July 30, though Chinese customers will still be able to use the service to rent rooms overseas.Read more...

Each new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has a big hook to draw audiences in, and for Thor: Love & Thunder, that hook comes in the form of one Jane Foster. Natalie Portman’s scientist hasn’t been seen since 2013's Thor: The Dark World, but here she is, wielding Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) old hammer Mjolnir and beating…Read more...

A shady private surveillance company sold access to nearly half a dozen powerful security flaws in Chrome and Android last year to government-affiliated hackers, Google revealed Monday.

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While it’s not slated to work with the iPhone or iOS devices, this next bit of Google Pixel Watch news is interesting if you’re hoping for a quality build akin to the Apple Watch.

Last week some of the biggest financial institutions in the world came together to talk ethics and socially conscious investment at the Financial Times’ Moral Money Summit. And it went great, no notes. You guys, banks are going to fix it. The free market is gonna solve climate change.

GameStop has officially thrown itself headlong into the web3 vipers nest with a new app release, though it’s hard to say whether its proposed population of gamers and game developers will take up the company on its belated, head-first jump into the crypto sphere.Read more...

Whether you’re venturing out to visit the amusement parks for the season or are an enthusiast who holds passes for multiple themed destinations, here’s essential gear to show your love for places that provide escapes to other worlds. Check out the latest in streetwear style for a day out at Six Flags, Universal StudiosRead more...

The Steam Deck is a sturdy piece of kit, but it’s always nice to have peace of mind that should something stop functioning—be it the screen, joysticks, or buttons—it can be easily replaced. Early adopters of this handheld console now have that reassurance, as iFixit has officially started to sell official replacement…Read more...

In a major win for social media companies, a court of appeals upheld an order to block a Florida law that would’ve allowed politicians to sue online platforms if they were to get banned or have their content moderated.Read more...

Meta unveiled their new AI platform, called MyoSuite, in a press release today. The software is aimed at modeling complex human movement to help develop prosthetics and, potentially, metaverse avatars.Read more...

In this day and age of TV and movies, nothing stays dead for long, especially if it’s a superhero show. Late last week, it was reported that Charlie Cox’s Daredevil was due to receive a brand new show for Disney+, this time set in the actual MCU and following the character’s brief cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home.…Read more...

After 15 years of selling coffee and baked goods in Russia, Starbucks has announced that it has suspended all business activity in Russia. Following the steps of McDonalds, which announced last week that they would begin “de-arching,” or removing all its brand elements from Russia. McDonalds had more than 800…Read more...

The week is finally upon us. After two years of delays, Star Wars fans are ready to celebrate yet again. The official Star Wars convention, Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, is happening this week, and with it comes four days of non-stop Star Wars news, merchandise, stories, and all manner of general excitement.

Tech’s most chaotic CEO saw about $10.6 billion of his personal wealth evaporate last Friday following a report on a settlement over alleged sexual misconduct, according to estimates from the Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Musk’s drop in wealth, spotted by Insider, was mainly due to the tanking of Tesla shares in the…Read more...

From smartphone parts to baby formula, the supply chain shortage affects industries in every corner of the world—including inside Apple’s walled garden. A recent report from a Korean trade paper indicates Apple is facing some challenges in securing a supplier for the iPhone 14’s front-facing camera, leading it to opt…Read more...

Corsair is best known for its premium desktops and accessories, specifically gaming headsets, keyboards, and monitors, but now the hardware maker is getting into laptops, and it’s setting itself apart by opting for a gaming touch bar.

After finding box office success, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 arrives on digital May 24, and io9 has an exclusive clip from the special features to share. James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and other stars discuss the production process for the sequel—with high praise especially for director Jeff Fowler.Read more...

A team of anthropologists studying Salorno, a stretch of scorched earth in northern Italy, say the site is a Late Bronze Age cremation platform where the remains of at least 172 individuals may have been burned. What’s more, the researchers believe the remains were simply left on the ground for the last 3,000 years.Read more...

Since 2019, Prime Video’s superhero series The Boys—based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comics published by Wildstorm and Dynamite—has been a bloody, anarchic romp that’s built up its own passionate fanbase and critical acclaim. Season three looks to be as bloody and absurd as ever, and adding to the chaos of…Read more...

Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine evidently believes that if you can’t snare enough slimy, data-profiting fish with one net, then you should just cast more nets.Read more...

How would you like to spend three months with Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor? Later this year, you’ll get that chance. A new interview confirms that his upcoming Star Wars show, Andor, is 12 episodes long. That’s double the length of this week’s Obi-Wan Kenobi show, five episodes longer than The Book of Boba Fett, and…Read more...

If you’ve ever laid awake at night wondering about how bad wildfires, droughts, storms, and floods could get in the future, then climate change has already been robbing you of sleep.

After what feels like an eternity, Stranger Things 4 is finally going to come out this weekend. (Or rather, the first part of it.) If all the various teases and posters in recent months haven’t gotten you excited for it, then maybe one final, action-packed trailer will do the job for you.

TikTok user “lonestarcjaye” looks defiantly into the camera and shares a recipe for baby formula that “our parents in the sixties drank” in a 50 second video that got over one million views with the hashtag #bidensamerica. “You mix that all up and you give it to your babies, and they’re going to be just fine,” she…Read more...

Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan are blooming earlier according to a new study from the Met Office in the United Kingdom.

“We call it ‘Humpjack,’” Sarah Stogner told me with a laugh.Read more...

Twenty-five years ago this week, I had a very specific, very disappointing thought: “I can’t believe he didn’t use the music more.” It was my first thought as I walked out of a screening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the highly anticipated sequel to the 1993 smash Jurassic Park. Four years later, director Steven…Read more...