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

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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...

The United Kingdom has had it with creepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI. Under a new enforcement rule from the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s office, Clearview must cease the collection and use of publicly available U.K. data and delete all data of U.K. residents from their database. The order, which will…Read more...

When AMD’s 5-nanometer Ryzen 7000 desktop chips arrive this fall, they will be competing against Intel with “significantly above” 5GHz speeds, DDR5 memory, and PCIe 5.0 controllers.Read more...

Samsung and Google have now officially put the Google Assistant on the Galaxy Watch 4. You should receive a Wear OS update with the ability to enable it on your Samsung smartwatch beginning today. The update also applies to Watch 4 Classic users.

Colin Cantwell, the concept artist behind many Star Wars designs, passed away Saturday at his Colorado home. His work included the X-Wing Starfighter, TIE Fighter, Star Destroyer, and the Death Star, but he had an incredible career even before his collaboration with George Lucas on his films, having worked in a jet…Read more...

YouTube claimed Sunday that more than 9,000 channels alongside over 70,000 videos were removed from the platform since February in what it’s called a push to curtail Russian disinformation over the ongoing war in Ukraine.Read more...

If you were on Twitter over the weekend, you may have seen a rip of the trailer for Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Intended to release alongside this week’s hot release of Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount’s gone and officially released the trailer for Tom Cruise’s next big action flick, and it looks even more…Read more...

As we head into the week, we’ve already got a lot to look forward to, considering that both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things are releasing their first episodes this Friday, May 27. In the meantime, we have updates from across the universe, from the MCU’s Ms. Marvel to Star Trek. Onward, fans and comrades!Read more...

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Congress passed a pair of bills last week to help alleviate the baby formula shortage in the U.S., while President Joe Biden initiated Operation Fly Formula, which tasked the military with flying thousands of pounds of formula from Europe. And while every decent person supports giving families easier access to…Read more...

Throughout this wretched pandemic, I’ve been finding myself latching on more and more to the fandoms of my youth. When times are tough and days are cloudy, there’s nothing like a little digital light shining from a Pikachu’s tail.

As the weekend winds down, news has come out from The Wrap that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, directed by Sam Raimi, has earned over 800 million dollars officially passing The Batman’s theatrical runs, the last big superhero flick to hit the theaters. Doctor Strange 2 is still a decent chunk of change…Read more...

As the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awards deserving writers with Nebulas this weekend, I was reminded of the incredible variety and vibrancy of short fiction magazines. We are in, right now, an unprecedented age of access when it comes to short stories. You can visit the sites of industry stalwarts…Read more...

I like Stranger Things as much as the next nerd, but this new release schedule feels, well... a little weird. Here are the details; the fourth and pentultimate season of Stranger Things will consist of nine episodes split up into two ‘Volumes’ with a month’s wait in between. According to the Netflix press release,…Read more...

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool revealed some art for the newest Power Ranger comic, an untitled series following a new Omega Ranger, currently only known as the Death Ranger. For comics fans, this news was enough to get them excited for the newest installment in the Power Rangers universe, exploring the current…Read more...

Twisted Metal, the live-action television series based on the popular car chase/vehicle combat video franchise from PlayStation, has been getting a lot of big names attached to it, drawing stars like Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz. Now, Neve Campbell has been announced as a recurring guest star, named Raven, io9…Read more...

The streets of San Fransokyo are vulnerable—and lurking around every corner, searching for pain, is Baymax! The lovable, inflatable help companion AI from Disney’s 2014 hit Big Hero 6 returns in his own show, focused on his adventures in being a first responder to anyone who may need him, and the first trailer has…Read more...

A new report claims that a subcontractor working for Russia’s intelligence service has a botnet capable of manipulating trends on social media platforms on a “massive scale.” The report, published Thursday by the cybersecurity firm Nisos, alleges that the Moscow-based firm 0day Technologies can spread disinformation…Read more...

Joining The Batman’s Robert Pattinson in Mickey7, the upcoming sci-fi film from auteur Bong Joon Ho, are Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Toni Collette (Nightmare Alley), and Mark Ruffalo (The Adam Project, She-Hulk). It’s been a while since the director’s multi-Oscar haul for Parasite and we couldn’t…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the best bare-chested toys and collectibles on the internet. This week all other toy news is irrelevant as, just like life, Mattel Creations has found a way to bring us more Jeff Goldblum than we deserve. Hold onto your butts as you check it out!Read more...

Amazon’s head of devices took a swipe at Meta on Thursday, saying the company is working on enhancing a virtual world that will entice people to neglect the real world.

Law enforcement agencies are finding new and flawed ways to try to arrest more people all the time. And police have been using posts on sites like Facebook and Instagram to track down and charge protestors suspected of property destruction for years. Now, newly released documents show that Chicago cops can catfish as…Read more...

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For most people, Christmas comes at the end of December. For Hallmark collectors, it comes much earlier than that—on the day Hallmark announces all of its ornaments for the coming year. Hundreds and hundreds of ornaments for every single occasion, aimed at fans of basically anything and everything.Read more...

It was a picture perfect launch of a ULA rocket Thursday evening at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The payload, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft, is now en route to the International Space Station, despite a bumpy orbital insertion burn. The capsule will attempt to dock at the orbital outpost at 7:10 p.m. EDT today, and you …Read more...

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Chinese telecommunications equipment is no longer wanted in the Great White North. Sorry! Canadian officials on Thursday announced a new ban on Huawei and ZTE 5G telecommunications equipment over alleged national security concerns. With the ban, Canada will join the U.S. U.K., Australia, and New Zealand, collectively…Read more...

When a movie grosses $2 billion at the box office, especially in the middle of a global pandemic, a sequel should be all but inevitable. However, that’s not quite the case with Spider-Man: No Way Home. Though the film was by far the biggest hit of the past few years and, obviously, the studio would love to make a…Read more...

OpenSea, the online NFT marketplace, has shut down trading of a certain Bored Ape amidst an ongoing ownership dispute case in Singapore. The NFT now sports a bright red disclaimer announcing that is has been “reported for suspicious activity.”

The federal government is banking big on the idea of a climate change “undo” button.

Halloween Horror Nights has finally announced the first official haunted house for its fall event on both coasts—just after we got back from a thrilling excursion at the Universal Orlando Resorts. Over on the Disney Parks side of things, we try to break down the complex process of getting a ticket for Guardians of the…Read more...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule is finally on its way to the International Space Station, despite a not-so-seamless start to its journey. The spacecraft experienced a malfunction when two thrusters failed to fire.

It’s not hard to imagine that a parent would do anything to help an infant escape a dangerous situation, such as an apartment fire where egress through the front door and stairs isn’t an option. But according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, any rescue plans should not include these BabyRescue bags from…Read more...

Nvidia’s rumored budget GeForce GTX 1630 desktop GPU will seemingly arrive in the next week or so, and when it does, it will likely be among the cheapest new cards on the market. VideoCardz reports that the GTX 1630 will essentially be a watered-down version of the GTX 1650, an entry-level graphics card released in…Read more...

States in the northeast U.S. are expected to experience the country’s first major heatwave of 2022 this weekend, with temperatures cresting well over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).

Since the release of Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller kept saying he had one little movie to finish before diving back into that world. Some small little thing he wanted to do. It stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. It’s called Three Thousand Years of Longing. And no, he wouldn’t say what it’s about.Read more...

There’s a lot of scandals hitting Tesla CEO Elon Musk all at once, but at least he knows he has a friend in Brazil’s deforester-in-chief Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing demagogue who similarly to Musk, has a very hard time taking any sort of public criticism, and has tried using the power of his office to make sure his…Read more...

Nearly three years have passed since audiences last took a trip to Hawkins, Indiana, but only six months have passed there. That’s when season four of Stranger Things picks up when it debuts May 27 and you can catch an extended glimpse right now. That’s because Netflix just released the first eight minutes of the…Read more...

A startling discovery was made by two kayakers. It happened last summer, while the pair were paddling along the Minnesota River. Because the river had receded after a regional drought, they were able to see an object on the banks of the river. They went closer and saw that it looked like human remains.Read more...

Hurricane season is just on the horizon, and this year rising temperatures are headed toward a “La Niña” effect that could cause bigger and stronger tropical storms in the Atlantic.Read more...

You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California next week, and io9 will be there in person to bring you all the news! As all the…Read more...

Parts of Spain could see record-breaking heat this weekend as the country prepares for what could be the earliest summer heatwave on record, officials said this week.Read more...

If you’re as restless as we are about the long-awaited return of Stranger Things, which debuted its third season nearly three years ago, Reddit has some fun digital treats to tide you over until the season four premiere next week.Read more...

South Korean supreme court documents show that just a week before the price of TerraUSD and its sidekick coin Luna utterly collapsed, company founder Do Kwon and other execs decided to shutter their native South Korean headquarters.Read more...

Apple will not have to disclose a design flaw in certain MacBook Pro models after a Ninth Circuit judge denied an appeal to reopen a class-action lawsuit concerning the “stage light” or “flexgate” defect, Bloomberg Law reports.

First they were nobodies. Then they were the son of the most powerful, evil man and the galaxy and his wife. Now,we know Rey’s mysterious parents, glimpsed only briefly in The Rise of Skywalker, are Dathan and Miramir, thanks to Adam Christopher’s new Star Wars novel, Shadow of the Sith—a book that, surprisingly, is …Read more...

If you’re looking to permanently replace a TV with a projector in a room with lots of foot traffic, there are two important things you should look for: lots of lumens, and a short-throw design. LG’s new HU915QE 4K CineBeam laser projector delivers both, with a design that can be positioned almost right up against a…Read more...

Behold: Exclusive footage from Prehistoric Planet, the upcoming Apple TV+ show that offers viewers some of the most scientifically accurate depictions of dinosaurs to ever grace the screen. This clip depicts the methodical hunting routine of Mononykus, a petite, insect-eating theropod recognizable for its massive…Read more...