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Amazon really, really wants you to think it’s trying on climate.Read more...

Being an Android user can be a clunky experience sometimes, but it can also open you up to a bunch of new device quirks you won’t find elsewhere. Whereas Apple chooses to put only features that match its sleek image on the iPhone, Android manufacturers have taken more risks in pursuing market share. It’s one of the…Read more...

Do you remember how your parents tried to convince you to eat your vegetables as a kid by promising they were good for your health? That’s the same tactic a lot of wearable makers are using today, by adding health-tracking features to devices like smartwatches. Now, researchers have developed a way for earbuds to…Read more...

Jim Lee’s designs for the X-Men are burned into the minds of X-Fans like the Phoenix Force itself—whether you devoured comics, fell in love with the animated series, or, perhaps, just collected some of the iconic trading cards of the era. If you’re the latter, then we’ve got some very good news.

The sheriff of the Nomad decentralized finance project has plastered the walls of the internet with wanted posters over a recent $190 million hack of the company’s systems. Nomad is attempting to play nice about the heist, and it’s asking the dozens of ne’er do wells to voluntarily hand in their share of the…Read more...

Tatsuki Fujimoto’s breakout manga Chainsaw Man is an incredibly bloody gorefest that balances its gonzo premise with deeply heartfelt, emotional character arcs. Originally serialized in Shōnen Jump starting in 2018, the series is a violent exposition on human fear, and the deals we make with our own devils. Studio…Read more...

A system built by researchers from the University of Arizona is designed to warn astronomers of particularly bright satellites, affording them time to avert their telescopic eyes.

As our favorite crime-fighting reptiles prepare for a new film, Michael Keaton’s Batman gets cut from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Ahead of the streaming release for Sandman, Mark Hamill’s Merv Pumpkinhead gets his own teaser, and, delighting everyone, but probably especially io9's own Sabina Graves, Paper Girls is…Read more...

Conservationists in Colombia have recently rediscovered one of the most elusive and mysterious creatures in the world: a singing and shimmering, emerald-green species of hummingbird known as the Santa Marta sabrewing. The sighting is only the second ever documented since it was first identified, and the first in over…Read more...

Amazon and Roomba developer iRobot have finalized a merger agreement that will see Amazon acquiring the consumer robot manufacturer. The true motive behind the acquisition is unclear, but it is likely an attempt for Amazon to develop more autonomous warehouse robots.

Back in April, Elon Musk made a $44 billion offer to buy Twitter before he decided in July that he wanted to cancel the deal. But that’s not how it works when you’ve already made a legally binding commitment. And a new court filing from Twitter pokes hole after hole in every complaint the Tesla CEO has made about the…Read more...

A viral TikTok with millions views about how tampons that contain titanium dioxide can cause cancer and other health problems has spurred calls on the platform to throw away all products that match that description. Before you start gathering all your tampons and scouring their ingredient lists, you should know that…Read more...

The Warner Bros. and Discovery merger shake up continues, with increasing speculation over the fate of HBO Max and its original content. While DC Universe’s Batman spin-off The Penguin and Suicide Squad spin-off Peacemaker seem to be safe (for now, at least, per James Gunn’s “calm down” tweet and Colin Farrell’s…Read more...

As legendary war artist Ling Taishi watches the teenaged prophesied hero of her nation, Wen Jian, perform in an over-decorated gladiatorial arena, she quickly realizes that the boy is the worst of all possible outcomes. A deluded, over-indulged, under-trained teenage dirtbag. So much for being the child warrior the…Read more...

The two arms of HBO’s streaming slate will be coming together as one, a desperate move as the company reported some losses thanks to its parent Warner Bros. merger with Discovery that was first announced in 2021.Read more...

Visa and Mastercard, two of the world’s largest payment processors, said Thursday that they will suspend payments for ad purchases on Pornhub. The move comes on the heels of a judge allowing a lawsuit to proceed that accuses Visa of knowingly facilitating the spread of child pornography, also known as child sexual…Read more...

South Korea is embarking on its first lunar mission, and SpaceX has been brought in to help. You can catch this historic launch live right here.Read more...

The United States government has just declared a public health emergency over the growing monkeypox outbreak. The alert follows a similar declaration by the World Health Organization made last month, as well as ones made by individual states. There have been over 25,000 cases of the viral illness reported worldwide…Read more...

The bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most upsetting examples of how climate change is wreaking havoc on the natural wonders of our planet. But research from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) indicates that some parts of the coral reef currently have the highest coral cover since record-…Read more...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “My Future Self, Refused” by Adam-Troy Castro. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed’s website. Enjoy!

Alex Jones, the mouthpiece of the unhinged conspiracy site InfoWars, has been called a liar in court. It really shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, the defamation trial itself is over him lying to his massive audience about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, claiming with full-throated zeal that the…Read more...

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We already knew that Archer would be premiering its lucky 13th season later this month, thanks to a tweet from the FXX series itself earlier this summer. We learned a bit more about what to expect at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and now we have a trailer that shows us even more. Johnny Utahhhhh!

The Orville: New Horizons wrapped up its latest season today with “Future Unknown”—an apt episode title, since The Orville has yet to be renewed. We were already fans of the Seth MacFarlane show, but those “New Horizons” weren’t just an empty promise; season three (the show’s first on Hulu; it’ll soon also be …Read more...

Already the Joker movie has left a permanent scar on my mental psyche, but now it seems I’m destined to be heckled by this discarded laugh track of a film franchise forever. From Todd Phillips, the visionary director of The Hangover, The Hangover 2, and The Hangover 3, comes the next punchline on a resumé full of bad…Read more...

Just a few hours into its 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, the Lucy spacecraft ran into a problem. One of its solar arrays refused to fully open and mission controllers have been working on the problem ever since. There’s good news to report, however, as the team appears to have made a breakthrough.Read more...

It happened out of nowhere. A moment so fast and fleeting, missing it would’ve been understandable. But in that moment something happened that I never thought would happen again: I was fully engrossed in a new season of Westworld.Read more...

Gmail users might need to brace for a whole lot more annoying Republican messaging in the near future.Read more...

Out of all the Marvel films, I feel like the internet is most divided over Eternals, the blockbuster superhero film directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao. With a bit of a bonkers plot, an ensemble of 10 new superheroes, and convoluted MCU-ification of the timeline, there was a lot for fans to take in. But despite the…Read more...

With California’s ongoing water crisis impacting every part of daily life, health officials in the state’s wine country are scrambling to contain an outbreak of a waterborne bacteria that can potentially cause fatal lung infections.Read more...

Your Forzas, Gran Turismos, and other racing sims might be more realistic and graphically intense, but there’s only room in my heart for one racing game: Mario Kart, and soon there’s only going to be room in my garage for one car: Jakks Pacific’s new electric ride-on Mario Kart go-kart.Read more...

The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall, located near the country’s capital Reykjavik and its airport Keflavik, has travelers both worried and in awe as the hotspot spews lava into the surrounding areas.

Cue the Jurassic Park theme song: Scientists in Switzerland appear to have pulled off a remarkable feat, creating sterile and seemingly healthy mice that can produce the sperm cells of a rat. These rodent chimeras weren’t able to make viable rat offspring, but the work could lead to a new method of preserving species…Read more...

Two years ago, io9 premiered the trailer for The Phenomenon, a UFO documentary built around the “unavoidable fact” that aliens are real. Now filmmaker James Fox is back with a follow-up that explores that anti-skeptical thesis through a more international lens, delving into “the Roswell of Brazil.” It’s called Moment…Read more...

Of all the attempts we’ve seen to digitize card games and eliminate game night controversies over poorly shuffled decks and questionably dealt hands, the ReQTable is the most ambitious and easily the most awesome, with its ability to generate holograms of playing cards that appear to float in front of each player, all…Read more...

Apple once wanted both its users and employees to “Think Different.” But some women working at the tech giant now say the company itself needs to think different on claims of sexual misconduct. Past and present employees told the Financial Times that the tech giant routinely ignores complaints of sexual harassment and…Read more...

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Zach Barack is already used to making history. The first openly trans actor to appear in an MCU project, his brief moment in the spotlight as a classmate of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Far From Home now gives way to another breakthrough moment as the voice of Barney in Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park.

Amid the tax-write-off/cancelation disaster happening at HBO, we’ve got updates for the second season of James Gunn’s Peacemaker and the Supergirl movie... and it’s not all good news. Plus, a breakdown of how the Andor series will play out, a tease from Tales of the Walking Dead, and more. Spoilers, ahoy!Read more...

The climate crisis has created a huge sex imbalance for Florida’s sea turtles. More frequent and hotter heat waves baking the sand on the state’s beaches means that seemingly every new hatchling is female, turtle researchers told Reuters.

The National Archives and U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Peter Navarro, one of former president Donald Trump’s advisors, over emails he failed to hand over from his private email account, according to new reports from the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Curiously, the…Read more...

There’s no other movie right now that has elicited multiple re-watches like Jordan Peele’s Nope. It’s the kind of film where you leave the theater with a lingering buzz about what you just saw, questions about some of the reveals, and curiosity for anything you might have missed—the meaning of the shoe, for instance,…Read more...

When Riverdale began, it was a simple story about Archie, a high school sophomore, banging his music teacher and everyone else trying to find out who killed Cheryl’s twin brother Jason. Little did we know what madness would follow, or how delightful it would be. In honor of the end of the show’s utterly bananas sixth…Read more...

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I have been called many things for this list. A monster. A war criminal. Emotionally stunted. Cursed. A few of those things may be true, but the fact remains that I would eat a Fidough in a second after it had been fried up like a funnel cake and dusted in powdered sugar. I do not regret my decision, but I do regret…Read more...

Software updates can be messy, so it’s not surprising to hear recent rumors that Apple will spread out the launch of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 rather than launch them all out of the gate at once. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who heard it from people who “asked not to be identified because the deliberations are…Read more...

Last year, IT firm Cloudflare launched an email routing service, giving users the ability to set up a large number of addresses connected to the same inbox. Email routing can be a powerful privacy tool, as it allows you to hide your actual email address behind a network of temporary or “burnable” addresses. …Read more...

Russia just launched a mysterious satellite that could be spying on an even more mysterious U.S. military satellite, with the Russian spacecraft predicted to make a close approach to its presumed target this coming Thursday.