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Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, signed a bill into law this week that, with few exceptions, makes it a misdemeanor to stand within eight feet of a police officer and film them without their consent. The law, authored by a former police officer, has brought renewed attention to the legal fight over the …Read more...

In response to Russian cosmonauts promoting the ongoing attack on Ukraine, NASA issued a rare statement calling out its Russian counterpart for forcing politics on board the International Space Station.Read more...

Canada’s Rogers Communications is working to resolve its ongoing network outage, which has resulted in major internet cable and cellphone network disruptions across Canadian provinces.Read more...

New York is adding new restrictions to the state’s gun applicant screening laws. Among them is a rule that any person applying for a concealed carry handgun permit will need to submit a list of all of social media accounts for review. The legislation goes into effect starting September 1, and is part of a large…Read more...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order in an effort to protect access to reproductive health care services. This comes after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion, effectively giving individual states more power to regulate abortion access.Read more...

On July 12, it’ll be 199 days since the Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana. Momentously, it’ll be the first day that the public actually sees full-color images taken by the advanced telescope.Read more...

Hulu’s Solar Opposites is known for its hilariously twisted point of view on American pop culture—thanks to its protagonists, aliens who’re sent to Earth after their home planet, Shlorp, is destroyed. While they’re technically an Away Team on a sci-fi mission, the dynamics among them have settled into something…Read more...

Social media sites and video platforms are grappling with whether or not to pull videos depicting the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Read more...

As Twitter continues to wait to sell itself to Elon Musk, who seems like he’s been trying to find a way out of the $44 billion deal for months now, it has joined the slew of tech companies laying off employees amid a tumbling stock market and signs of a recession.Read more...

You’re hiking through glorious nature when you see it—a dirty, squished plastic water bottle along the trail. Instead of picking it up and impotently cursing the litterer, you can now take another small helpful step—you can report the trash to a new data project that aims to inspire policy change. Environmental…Read more...

Thor: Love and Thunder is the rare Marvel movie where its end credit scenes aren’t its biggest teases. We’d argue the film’s natural ending is probably a bit more revealing when it comes to the future of Thor, but there are still two scenes in the credits and each has a strong significance. Let’s break them down.Read more...

California Governor Gavin Newsom says California is moving forward with a plan to produce its own insulin after he signed a $100 million budget to produce the drug at a cheaper price point.

The after shakes of the recent crypto earthquake have brought down the roofs of several crypto lenders and exchanges, and some of those who once happily played in the crypto sandbox with the big players are now racing to sue before all the money is shaken out of their pockets.Read more...

Despite all their useful functionality, which includes potentially saving your life one day, smartwatches aren’t exactly cheap. But shelling out several hundred dollars for a wearable seems like an absolute bargain when compared to the prices you’ll find on some of the most unusual and original mechanical watches…Read more...

Kazuki Takahashi died this week. The creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga, anime, and trading card game, he was an artist who meant a great deal to me. A strange and surprising grief struck when I heard the news, both for the man himself, only 60 years old, and for his game. With his death, I feel the final loss of an…Read more...

This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the winners of a global competition to create new encryption standards. Somewhat mind-bogglingly, these algorithms have been designed to defend against a cyber threat that doesn’t even exist yet: quantum computers.Read more...

John Carpenter teases something a little different for Halloween Ends. Get a glimpse of Lucifer from Netflix’s Sandman. Meet the wild villains of the new Resident Evil show. Plus, what’s coming on Tom Swift and Riverdale. To me, my spoilers!

Having all of your music, audiobooks, podcasts, movies and TV shows stored in the cloud is a fine idea—you can get at them from any device, and it frees up storage on your gadgets. The only time there’s a problem is when you can’t connect to the cloud: Your internet goes down, or you can’t get a strong cell signal, or…Read more...

While we wait for Taika Waititi to decide what his Star Wars movie is going to be and he wraps up promotion for his latest Marvel flick, we’re just trying to figure out what’s really going on with his cryptic humor about his plans to shake things up in a galaxy far, far away. But anyone in doubt that the director…Read more...

Solar Opposites returns for its third season next week on Hulu, bringing with it some wild and surreal new adventures for its alien characters—as well as its tiny-human characters and its regular human characters, to boot. Coming from one of the creatives behind Rick and Morty and Star Trek: Lower Decks, you’d expect…Read more...

The angry Florida man who perpetually has “nothing to hide” is reportedly trying to squirm his way out of yet another potentially dubious business deal.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 “Critical Mass” by Peter Watts. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed’s website. Enjoy!

Just as Google announced it would be adopting virtual cards for shopping through Chrome, Apple is likely also implementing virtual cards in its Safari browser. The news comes from 9to5Mac, which is currently digging through the iOS 16 beta 3, released yesterday afternoon for developers. According to code the site has…Read more...

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment team has announced the results from its first scientific run today; the experiment is the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, and though it did not find any dark matter in this first round, the team confirmed that the experiment is working as expected.

Amazon, like many folks still struggling to locate an affordable apartment in and around New York City, can’t find anywhere that will let it settle down. First the company tried Queens, but found the neighborhood was too rowdy. Now, the area across the bay is no longer so keen on letting the retail giant set up shop.Read more...

What could’ve gone wrong when 19-year-old Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes founded blood-testing company Theranos in 2003? Apparently everything, including Theranos ex-president and former COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani being convicted of fraud in a federal court earlier today.

Birthdays come every year, but since your favorite films only celebrate landmark anniversaries every so often, we like to acknowledge them here at io9. And so, just as we did last year, every few months we’re going to let you know which major sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre movies are marking significant…Read more...

Researchers are looking for a few good pets to donate their time, blood, and feces for science. Mars Incorporated—the makers of several popular candy and pet food brands—recently launched its Pet Biobank project. The study is expected to track the health of 20,000 domestic dogs and cats over a 10-year period. The…Read more...

New gadgets are fun to speculate on, especially if it means a distraction from the everyday mess that is society. This summer, we’re expecting Samsung to launch the next generation of its foldables. But we’re also hoping to see the reprise of the only Android smartwatch worth wearing, the Galaxy Watch 4. According to …Read more...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a show both in love with, and unable to escape, its place in the Star Trek timeline. From the get-go it’s known that inherently—as a series following the captain of the Enterprise we know is going to be replaced by the captain of the Enterprise—Strange New Worlds would as much about…Read more...

There’s some big news from Meta today. First, Meta is set to release its newest, mysterious, high-end virtual reality headset sometime this year. The company has been referring to the forthcoming VR hardware under the codename “Project Cambria,” but the actual headset will probably be called the “Meta Quest Pro,”…Read more...

We did it, my dudes. We got through Stranger Things season four, which took almost as long to arrive as it did to watch. io9 already had a lively roundtable discussing the ins and outs of season four’s second installment, but we also wanted to break down our favorite (and least-favorite) parts of volume two.Read more...

Want to feel nostalgic for your DVD collection? Well, if you think that buying that movie on your digital platform means you have access to that content in perpetuity, you might need to think again.Read more...

The trailer that follows will be the most epic, star-studded thing you see today. I don’t care if Marvel announces Avengers 5 and dead characters come back from the grave, cross over with Star Wars, and they all fight the DC Universe. This trailer has it beat.Read more...

Patty Durand reached her tipping point in 2019, when Georgia’s Public Service Commission was considering a rate case that would have huge implications for energy bills for people in Georgia. Durand was president of an energy nonprofit in Atlanta, and the commission had invited her to present research on consumer…Read more...

How “forgotten” are your deleted internet posts anyway?Read more...

What’s better than one person typing up pretentious hot takes on current events? Two people! Twitter is rolling out a new feature that will allow two users to co-author a tweet together, posting the tweet on both of their accounts simultaneously.Read more...

Private space company Nanoracks has announced the successful first test of a new technology to get rid of trash from the International Space Station.

After the success of Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions signed an exclusive deal with Universal Pictures as its home for future film and television projects—so it was only a matter of time before the genre powerhouse took up some real estate on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood.Read more...

Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio have signed on for Disney+ series Echo. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the two stars of Daredevil will be making their official ensemble debut on the Marvel Studios television series starring Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez.

A company in Japan is developing a smartphone app that would delete children’s nude photos automatically from their phone. The app is being developed as a way to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and minors

Sad news as Kazuki Takahashi, the manga-ka behind the hit series Yu-Gi-Oh and its even more popular CCG, has died in what seems to be a tragic accident at the age of 60.Read more...

It looks like an NFT, it sells like an NFT, but Reddit swears it’s just a “Collectible Avatar.” The website is launching a new collection of limited edition, artist-made, blockchain-backed, digital cartoon characters for purchase.

After going MIA for nearly 24 hours, NASA’s CAPSTONE probe finally reestablished contact with ground controllers. The microwave-sized satellite is currently en route to the Moon where it will test a unique orbital configuration for an upcoming lunar space station.

Among the many reasons to own an Apple Watch is the number of times it can save you from having to pull your iPhone out of your pocket, and a new patent recently granted to Apple could one day see yet another useful iPhone feature brought to the wearable: Touch ID.Read more...

It looks like Mickey Mouse might need a refresher on digital security.Read more...

Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the scariest dinosaurs to have roamed the planet, but it’s also the laughing stock of the dinosaur kingdom due its tiny arms. Never fear, T. rex: Researchers in Argentina have found you a friend that shares your absurdly small arms.

Alex Ross’ superhero comics work is iconic for good reason, and he’s about to give us a boatload of it with Fantastic Four: Full Circle, a rare comics project about Marvel’s first family written and illustrated by the artist himself. But if you’re heading to Comic-Con this month, there’s good news: io9's got the…Read more...

Nobody seems to be rooting for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson anymore, except, perhaps, Boris Johnson. However, the entire internet seems to agree that one public figure should remain in power, and perhaps even take over after the current PM’s scandal-filled ousting.Read more...

On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first powered aircraft to lift off from the surface of Mars. The historic 39-second flight set the stage for an entirely new way of exploring other planets, inspiring engineers to design bigger and more durable aircraft to soar over the Martian terrain.Read more...