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New research claims that Hong Kong’s covid-19 contact tracing app has a host of security problems that could expose sensitive user data. The city’s response: We don’t know what you guys are talking about.Read more...

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the most recent television iteration of the world’s favorite terrapin heroes, generated a lot of buzz, from its initial announcement all the way through its two seasons on Nickelodeon. While the show did receive an arguably satisfying conclusion in 2020, it was later announced…Read more...

io9 is pleased to announce that Erewhon Books has acquired Womb City, the novel debut of Lambda finalist and Nommo Award-winner Tlotlo Tsamaase, who uses both xe/xem and she/her pronouns. Tsamaase is a Motswana writer currently living in Botswana. Xer novella, The Silence of the Wilting Skin, garnered a massive…Read more...

The history of AI computing in recent decades follows a somewhat familiar script: brief bursts of industry-shifting breakthroughs followed by months or years of smaller incremental change with a fair share of controversy peppered in between. Today’s one of those watershed moments.

Attention all classic controller lovers, your favorite classic Nintendo and Sega controllers, which refer to the Switch specific NES, SNES, Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive, and N64 controllers, are now supported by Steam (and thus your PC). This comes after Steam announced a slew of updates and patch notes yesterday, with …Read more...

Less than a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg elicited outrage by saying that more than 30% of users’ Instagram feeds would consist of AI-recommended content from people they don’t follow by next year, the photo-sharing app’s head honcho said the company would stop updates in an effort to staunch the flood of…Read more...

Several news publishers are going to be out millions of dollars as Meta is now saying, in a very subdued way, there’s no place for dedicated news systems on its ever-more algorithmically based social platforms.Read more...

While OG Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is busy getting big and green for Marvel’s She-Hulk on Disney+, the next chapter of AMC’s clone-fascinated series has announced its star, and she happens to have her own Marvel connections: it’s Jessica Jones’ Krysten Ritter.Read more...

Quick-thinking users have spotted a strange list on AMD’s resource page (since removed) that shed light on the names of its 7000 series CPUs. As first noticed by Videocardz on Wednesday, AMD’s list contained SKUs for its upcoming 7000 series processors, including the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900x, Ryzen 7 7700X, and…Read more...

Just eight episodes remain in the Locke family saga, and fans of Locke & Key don’t have long to wait: the third and final season arrives on Netflix August 10, bringing what the streamer calls “the most dangerous threat yet” to menace not just the residents of Keyhouse, but all of Matheson and beyond. Check out the new…Read more...

Dating these days feels impossible, ask anyone, and breaking up is so hard for some that “ghosting”—ignoring someone’s calls and texts when you’ve lost interest—has become the norm. But a politician in the Philippines is trying to make the act of ghosting an “emotional offense.”

It’s been 13 years since authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote a Dragonlance novel, based on the Dungeons & Dragons game setting whose tone they largely defined. That changes in August when their new book Dragons of Deceit, the first in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy, is published starring the fan-favorite…Read more...

Arriving a year after the first Apple AirPods, the original Google Pixel Buds were some of the worst wireless earbuds we’ve ever tested: and they weren’t even truly wireless. Five years later, the new Pixel Buds Pro, which finally introduce active noise cancelling to Google’s wireless headphones, are the completely…Read more...

A bacteria endemic to tropical areas that causes life-threatening infection has just been detected within the soil and waters of the continental U.S. for the first time. On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that they recently isolated Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria in southern…Read more...

Have you ever thought, “I’m about to tweet, but that’s not enough self-expression. I need to tell the internet how I really feel?” If so, you’re in luck—maybe. As long as your true inner feelings align with the options in Twitter’s new status feature, which is currently in testing. The concept was hinted at in a leak…Read more...

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On Wednesday evening, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) announced that they had reached a climate compromise in a new package of reforms, marking a sudden reversal on climate from Manchin that surprised basically everyone in Washington. The new legislation, which comes less than…Read more...

There are some all-time classic documentaries that every horror fan has likely already seen: Best Worst Movie, American Movie, and Terror in the Aisles, to name a few. But what about more recent entries into the genre? Here are 10 of the very best horror-adjacent docs dating from 2012 until now.Read more...

Data centers have caused skyrocketing power demand in parts of London. Now, new housing construction could be banned for a full decade in some neighborhoods of the UK’s biggest city because the electricity grid is reaching capacity, according to a report from the Financial Times. The reason: too many data centers…Read more...

Earlier this week, Russia’s new space chief threatened to leave the ISS after 2024, but new statements made to NASA suggests the country won’t leave the space station until at least 2028.

Ravensburger is announcing the newest addition to the hit Villainous board game franchise with it’s first-ever expansion pack, featuring our favorite Symbiote. In Marvel Villainous: We Are Venom, players will be able to take on the role of Venom, the infamous villain turned anti-hero from the Spider-Man series.Read more...

The Backbone One controller is one of the best ways to unleash your smartphone’s gaming potential, and Backbone today revealed the third iteration of the gamepad (after the original iPhone and Android versions), featuring a major facelift that looks right at home alongside the PlayStation 5's stark white DualSense…Read more...

Two of the most hated airlines in the United States are set to merge together to create one giant ball of jet fuel-fed frustration. Spirit Airlines, the “budget” airline that’s become the butt of a seemingly endless stream of hellish travel jokes, is reportedly being acquired by JetBlue for $3.8 billion. If regulators…Read more...

Bernard Cribbins, adored for his role as the wonderful grandfather of Doctor Who companion Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, has died, Variety reports.

Beyond the battle between employees and their bosses over hybrid or remote work, there could soon be a new axis to add to this strange paradigm: workers being forced to clamp a VR headset to their cranium to pretend to be close to coworkers in a virtual office. Even though the metaverse does not yet truly exist,…Read more...

The Spirit Halloween movie has revealed a few of its familiar haunting faces. Another old friend returns for Dinsey+’s The Santa Clause sequel. Plus, behind the scenes of the return of Fate: The Winx Club, and what’s coming up on Evil. To me, my spoilers!

Five major oil and gas companies are set to release their Q2 earnings reports on Thursday and Friday. The numbers are already astronomical: Shell announced Thursday it had made a jaw-dropping $11.5 billion in profit last quarter, smashing a record it set earlier this year. The industry is expected to log a record $50…Read more...

Despite the surge of public backlash over Instagram’s recent changes, fueled by internet powerhouses Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is unmoved. He said the photo-sharing app, if it can still be called that, will show twice as much AI-recommended content by the end of next year in the…Read more...

Sean Hannity took President Joe Biden to task on his show Wednesday, something that’s obviously not new. What did the Fox News personality get all bent out of shape about this time? Hannity is apparently upset that President Biden got a weaker variant of covid-19 than President Donald Trump, the big strong man who…Read more...

Can federal agencies turn to private data brokers to gather data on individuals that would normally be protected under local laws?Read more...

Matt Berry stars on FX hit What We Do in the Shadows, which is currently in its fourth season—but the British actor only just realized how popular the vampire series has become in America. Like, just realized.Read more...

Sylvester Stallone’s superhero film Samaritan finally has a trailer. Originally set to release in 2020, it was delayed many years because of various studio acquisitions. With a focus on the kind of anti-hero story similar to Will Smith’s Hancock, Samaritan is billed as a take on what happens to superheroes when…Read more...

Google’s finally delivering on the new Gmail layout it’s been teasing since February. The company announced that Gmail’s new Material Design 3-inspired layout is now available to all. The revamped look will include immediate Meet, Chat, and Spaces integration without clogging up the page. Google even threw in a…Read more...

Members of Congress—you know, the people who can’t seem to do anything—are taking their considerable talents to the fight against digital threats. On Wednesday, the House Intelligence Committee held a public hearing to address the threat of “commercial cyber surveillance,” otherwise known as the spyware industry.Read more...

In just the past few weeks, wild monkeys have attacked at least 58 people in and around the city of Yamaguchi in southwestern Japan, and no one seems to know exactly why, according to a report from the Associated Press. “I have never seen anything like this my entire life,” city official Masato Saito told the AP on…Read more...

Meta—once a behemoth in the social media space—has reported its first revenue decline ever: A 1% decline in revenue in Q2 year-over-year. This decline comes along with the company’s long haul strategy of pivoting away from their time as social media titan Facebook and into the “metaverse.”

An extra dose of vitamin D probably won’t make the average person’s bones any stronger. New research from a large-scale, placebo-controlled, and randomized clinical trial out Wednesday has found no evidence that taking vitamin D supplements reduces the risk of bone fractures in healthy older adults.Read more...

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022, io9 sat down with the creative teams shepherding Warner Bros.’ classic Looney Tunes characters into new and reimagined cartoons. In a push led by Looney Tunes Cartoons’ Alex Kirwan—who spearheads the franchise’s current slate of shorts on HBO Max—the beloved animation icons will soon …Read more...

Have you ever been to a garage sale where someone was selling sports trophies? Kinda tacky, right? Well, it’s not so much the same when an ex-astronaut does it, especially when it’s one of the original moon landing astronaut’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.Read more...

Data from a NASA probe suggests lunar pits have comfortable temperatures due to their shadowy overhangs, which keep them cool during the day and prevent heat from escaping at night.

On January 1, 1993, Superman died. If you’re used to comics constantly killing off characters and then bringing them back willy-nilly, this may not sound like a big deal. But not only was it rare back in the early ‘90s, this was Superman, comics’ preeminent superhero. The event got massive mainstream news coverage and…Read more...

These days, if your passwords and login credentials have appeared in a public data breach, you’re most likely going to know about it: Apple, Google, password managers, web browsers and more will all warn you if the details that they’re storing have been spotted in a breach. The next question is: what should you do…Read more...

NASA press conferences are almost always interesting, but today’s media event truly blew my mind. Instead of using a proposed sample fetch rover to collect surface samples left by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the space agency intends to send two Ingenuity-class helicopters to Jezero Crater on Mars, where they’ll fly to…Read more...

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We’ve likely all killed a spider or two in the past, but what if that arachnid’s corpse could be repurposed into something useful? Well, researchers at Rice University in Texas think it can and are pioneering the field of “necrobotics” by injecting dead spiders with air to use them to grasp small objects.

With the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard reuniting much of the bridge crew of the Enterprise-D, it makes sense that the iconic flagship of Starfleet will make a return, too. But which one? Well, it could be one we know already.

A year has passed since Jordan Peele first let the world know the ominous title of his next movie; ever since, we’ve all been wondering what the heck Nope was going to be about. Each trailer pulled back the curtain a little bit, but when the film finally opened this past weekend, all was revealed. And it was a lot.Read more...

It’s hard to get the majority of the U.S. Senate to agree on anything, but apparently more than 60% of the upper house of Congress agree that the country could use some more computer chips, $52 billion worth of chip manufacturing, to be exact.Read more...

An Egyptian TikToker living in Saudi Arabia was arrested this week by capital police in Riyadh, who claimed she made sexually suggestive comments to another woman in a live video and accused her of negatively affecting public morality.Read more...