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This is truly wild. In our year 2023, we’re finally hitting robotics at theme parks with the knowledge of how to get back up if knocked down, which is totally a good idea. Totally.Read more...

A former TikTok employee turned whistleblower has reportedly met with multiple U.S. senators expressing concerns TikTok’s plan to secure U.S. user data won’t go far enough to stop possible Chinese espionage. The whistleblower told The Washington Post in an interview that the company’s policy plan, dubbed Project Texas…Read more...

Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly dropping HBO from the name of its HBO Max streaming service as execs speculate that the branding is responsible for lackluster subscriptions. The possibility of a name change comes as HBO Max is merging with Discovery+ this spring.Read more...

Alongside Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes the yearly discussion in Congress of whether to eliminate it altogether. We lose that extra hour of sleep as the clocks spring forward on Sunday.Read more...

We are soon going to learn the identities of the four astronauts who will strap into the Orion spacecraft and travel farther into space than any crew before.Read more...

It’s a big day for Mario Mario. It’s literally his day—March 10, a.k.a. Mar10—his new movie just got a cool trailer, and Nintendo has decided that the best way to celebrate that is to steal his shoes and put them in the plumber’s ancestral home of New York. Of course, io9 was there to take a look!Read more...

A federal judge doesn’t think proposed changes to Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions will be enough to address the disgraced FTX founder’s messy online behavior while awaiting trial, according to a Friday Reuters report.

Republican Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee Randy McNally has come under fire this week for liking social media posts of LGBTQ models and creators. Now, McNally is apologizing, not for Republicans’ increasing attacks on queer people, but for how he may have embarrassed his friends and family along the way.

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Haraldur Thorleifsson has had a long week. On Monday, the Icelander tweeted at Elon Musk asking if he still had a job at Twitter, since he had been locked out of his work laptop and hadn’t been able to get in touch with Twitter human resources. On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that no, Thorleifsson did not still have a job,…Read more...

Ninja Vs. Shark. It’s a movie. A real movie, one coming to theaters in Japan next month. It even has a real trailer, which is without question the most ludicrously violent, and violently silly, movie trailer I have ever seen. Here is that trailer.

What goes up must come down, and that includes all of the satellites, rocket stages, and junk that humans have launched into space. A group of scientists is sounding the alarm about how that growing cloud of debris orbiting Earth may cause us trouble in the future, and are championing a global approach to governing…Read more...

Researchers studying macaques in one of Thailand’s national parks made a surprising discovery: While cracking nuts, the monkeys make stone flakes that look an awful lot like the flakes that scientists have attributed to ancient human. The finding means that some of the material held up as the earliest evidence of…Read more...

Today might be a day of celebration for fans of heroic plumbers, as Nintendo commemorates another Mario Day (March 10, or Mar10), but it will also be a sad reminder for some gamers that in just a couple of weeks, both the Wii U and 3DS/2DS eShops will be officially closing down.Read more...

Everyone suspects Everything Everywhere All at Once will be taking home the Oscar for Best Picture this Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards. However, I wouldn’t be too sure. Only a few genre movies have ever managed the achievement; it’s much more common for Hollywood to congratulate itself for recognizing them with a…Read more...

Fans across the globe have been patiently waiting for this week. The week to celebrate all that is great in film and television. Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, it’s Oscar week.Read more...

Here’s a pocket monster that you probably wouldn’t want to catch. Scientists say they’ve confirmed the existence of a previously unknown cockroach species found in Singapore—a species they then decided to name after an otherworldly Pokémon that more than bears a passing resemblance to it. The real-life Pokémon is…Read more...

Facebook and Instagram influencers are losing access to a big moneymaking program that was previously paying out thousands of dollars per vid. It was an effort to get more Instagram users interested in watching the social network’s short-form video format Reels.Read more...

The latest entry in the vast Gundam franchise, The Witch From Mercury, was one of our favourite anime of 2022—and now it’s back and looking better than ever, even as things get much more dangerous for its heroes Suletta and Miorine.

House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed, self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and…Read more...

The film adaptation of Cixin Liu’s Hugo Award-winning, Nebula Award-nominated, best-selling science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem may be stuck in a peculiar development hell, although fans can hopefully console themselves with Netflix’s TV version coming later this year. But for those who want to see Liu’s work…Read more...

An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that there’s now an estimated 170 trillion plastic particles—more than 2.2 million tons—floating in the world’s oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with…Read more...

Come Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 a.m. EST, Daylight Saving Time will begin. We’ll lose an hour because the 20th-century federal government decided we should. Then on November 5th we’ll gain an hour, and be plunged into darkness. For over half a century, we’ve accepted that this cycle is normal.Read more...

Sometimes the movies are loosely based on true events. Sometimes reality seems to mimic fictional film. In the story of Amiry the serval, both are true at once.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-24 crew capsule could launch to the International Space Station sooner than planned to replace a potentially unsafe spacecraft slated to return three astronauts back to Earth, Russian media reported. Upsettingly, the potentially unsafe spacecraft is MS-23, a replacement craft sent to the ISS to…Read more...

Artificial intelligence is (rightfully) lampooned for all sorts of reasons, but credit where credit is due: neural networks really know how to make some freakishly beautiful art.Read more...

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Fungi are some of the strangest living things on Earth. Some are single-celled organisms like bacteria, other are multicellular beings akin to plants and animals. Some can even shapeshift between these forms of life. However they look, they’re an integral part of the environment: Many fungi act as nature’s recyclers,…Read more...

For over a century, scientists have sought a holy grail of materials: a room-temperature superconductor, a material that can carry electrical charges without resistance, which would revolutionize the energy landscape as we know it.

With the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie debuting yesterday, and the film hitting theaters on April 5, many Lego fans expected the company to reveal some movie tie-in sets today—the most hallowed day in the Mushroom Kingdom calendar. Instead, for Mar10 day, Lego has revealed another expansion to its…Read more...

HP is receiving backlash after users reported that their non-brand ink cartridges stopped working following recent firmware updates.Read more...

We’ve heard a lot of things about a sequel to Tim Burton’s beloved 1988 movie Beetlejuice, with most of it being some variation of “not happening.” Even Burton himself said he doubted the film would ever get made nack in 2019, and former scriptwriter Seth Grahame-Smith said he was finished with the project in 2021.…Read more...

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Andy Samberg’s Indiana Jones parody Digman! becomes a Brooklyn 99 reunion. Plus, check out creepy trailers for The Tank and The Resurrection of Charles Manson, as well as a new trailer for Yellowjackets’s second season. Spoilers get!

While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird. On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like messages.Read more...

Gone are the days of shimmery plastic CDs and chunky jewel cases, the past is making a comeback in a back way. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revealed in its annual revenue report that vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales for the first time since 1987.

Ben Riggs is a D&D historian and author of the book Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons.Read more...

Police charged twenty-three additional people with domestic terrorism felonies in Atlanta, Georgia this week, after arresting dozens in alleged association with ongoing protests against the construction of a planned police training facility. The reasoning for these new, hefty charges: dirty shoes, according to a…Read more...

The sudden explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other large language models has led to renewed attention on artificial intelligence that’s capable of mimicking speech, especially for well-known figures. It has left some spectators fearful of a rise in deepfake-fueled misinformation, copyright chaos, or possibly even the…Read more...

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The climactic season one finale of The Last of Us, where we’ll find out the this current arc’s fates for Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) is nearly upon us. But it’s not quite the end before we have to wait for season two.Read more...

During the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Bob Iger participated in a Q&A and was asked about his notable acquisitions during his previous term as Disney’s CEO. On the current slate of Marvel and Star Wars projects, Iger discussed that the franchises future are always on his mind, “I think a…Read more...

Like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back’s 40th anniversaries before it, Return of the Jedi is celebrating its landmark year in style with its own From a Certain Point of View collection—and the authors include some familiar Star Wars faces, some new ones, and perhaps of most interest to us, a co-founder of io9!

Turns out getting your head popped like a grape professionally is relaxing, actually. On Hot Ones Pedro Pascal broke down the one of the most iconic but traumatizing for the audience scenes in Game of Thrones, Oberyn Martell’s death at the hands of Gregor Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) during the The Viper vs. The…Read more...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now advising people to get screened for hepatitis B at least once in their lives. Though the infection can be managed with antivirals and prevented with a highly effective childhood vaccine, many Americans today are still living with chronic hepatitis B, which can…Read more...

It’s a controversial take, but sometimes I think Microsoft Edge is my favorite browser. I like the PDF viewer and Edge’s built-in “read-aloud” capability. And coming soon, Edge will be able to upscale low-resolution YouTube videos, like scrapes of old episodes of MTV’s Real World.

A Norfolk Southern train traveling in Calhoun County, Alabama derailed early Thursday morning. Thirty-seven train cars jumped off the tracks around 6:50 a.m. ET, according to local news reports.

We’re less than a month away from there being not one, but two Super Mario Bros. movies in existence. The Super Mario Bros. Movie opens on April 5 and comes from not only game creator Shigeru Miyamoto but also the minds behind Minions. Its latest trailer is here, and it’s wild.

Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk is adding one more title to his resume: town owner. The multi-billionaire is reportedly working on building his own “utopia” in Texas and plans to name it Snailbrook.Read more...