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We’ve all been there. You’re blissfully walking down the street, totally enthralled by the latest mind-easing Gadgettes podcast episode when suddenly a high-pitched sound pierces through your brain. “Agh!” you squeal, as you desperately yank your earbuds free only to see everyone around you recoiling in similar…Read more...

Ben Kenobi may not have heard the name “Obi-Wan” in a while, but odds are you have. The latest Star Wars show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, debuts on Disney+ next week—meaning fans will finally, at long last, see the return of Ewan McGregor as the pivotal Jedi Master. When last we saw Kenobi, he was taking a baby named Luke to the…Read more...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it is now looking into 180 reports of children with severe and sudden unexplained liver inflammation, known as acute hepatitis. The first reports of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children popped up in October and November 2021, with five…Read more...

Three weeks in and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is already settling into a satisfying groove: one part riff on a formula that Star Trek loves, one part focus on a singular character, one part classic morality tale. This week, you get bang for your buck with not one, but two formula riffs—and a whole lot more in a…Read more...

In light of efforts by its workers to form unions at two stores, tech giant Apple is allegedly turning to corporate tactics to try and prevent the employee unionization from taking place. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) filed a complaint against Apple for violating federal labor laws by interrogating…Read more...

Cycling can be a relaxing pastime until riders find themselves sharing the road with other vehicles. It then starts to feel like an exercise in mere survival, and should the unthinkable happen and a cyclist gets hit by a car, Garmin’s new Varia RCT715 will get the whole thing on film providing evidence as to who was…Read more...

Researchers have observed a unique behavior among the bottlenose dolphins that inhabit the northern Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt: The animals rub their bodies against certain coral species, which the biologists believe is for medicinal purposes.Read more...

When a trailer starts with a needle drop to a ‘70s banger like “Ballroom Blitz,” you know you’re in for a ride. While season two of The Umbrella Academy ended with the surviving members of the Umbrella Academy getting the suitcase to portal them back to 2019, they didn’t emerge into the exact right 2019. Today’s…Read more...

With crypto rates for most coins having tanked over the past few weeks, at least one crypto exchange is considering that brokering old school stock trading may be a good option for its users who aren’t just looking to “HODL.” You know, the good old “stable,” “reliable,” and always “fair” stock market (yes, it’s…Read more...

After axing a massive slate of shows from its network, the CW turned its sights on another long-running, recognizable show: Riverdale. Deadline has revealed that this seventh season will be the last for the teen drama series, which began as a steamy, dark soap opera spin on the Archie comics, but has increasingly…Read more...

Two satellites recently exchanged more than 200 gigabits of data over a distance of about 60 miles (100 kilometers) using laser communication in space. The achievement sets the stage for yet another satellite constellation.

Given they’re now part of a lot of people’s everyday carry, there’s good reason for wireless earbud makers to get more creative with the charging cases these devices rely on: within reason. Eschewing pocket-ability altogether, Samsung has created a Poké Ball case for the case its Galaxy Buds 2 charge in, and it will…Read more...

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In the midst of all the Star Wars pulls out of this week’s Vanity Fair article, George Miller released a teaser trailer for his genie-centric film,

Countless laptops have been announced in the past few weeks, including an entire fleet of Acer notebooks, HP gaming systems, a premium Lenovo Chromebook, and an Asus with a hidden message written in invisible ink. Frankly, I’m exhausted. However, I won’t let my cramping fingers deter me from being excited about the…Read more...

Every year, the same laptops get updated and, in most cases, they’re simply refreshed with the latest chips from Intel, AMD, or Nvidia. If you purchased the previous model, there is not much you can do but look on in envy at the more powerful new versions while waiting until it’s time to upgrade again.Read more...

As a genre, science fiction has long provided a way for audiences to imagine the future and their places in it. A lot of the best sci-fi films of prior decades pictured what life would be like in the years to come. Such movies asked: What would America and the world look like in the 1980s? What about the 1990s? The…Read more...

For Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander heritage month, Kelly Marie Tran (Raya and the Last Dragon) sat down with StarWars.com to discuss her experience being a part of the Star Wars universe as a first generation Asian-American when she was cast as Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In the open…Read more...

If you managed to score tickets to this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, next week, I sincerely hope you also managed to save up some galactic credits. Besides actual Star Wars news, the amount of exclusive merchandise that will be available to you there, and there alone, is simply staggering—so…Read more...

On April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the new Disinformation Governance Board, a group within the federal agency focused on researching the best ways to fight rampant online lies and misleading content seen as a danger to national security. Less than a month later, though, and the board has…Read more...

Alongside 150 full time employees Netflix axed Tuesday, dozens of contract writers were shown the door. Bitter tweets flooded in after the job cuts were announced. Many of those writers were part of Netflix’s large-scale diversity communications initiatives, and they said that the struggling streaming giant had left…Read more...

Good news for YouTube Music listeners! A compatible app for Wear OS is finally available so that you can take your playlists with you on the go.

First announced back in 2017, then delayed and delayed again thanks to the pandemic, The Bob’s Burgers Movie—an animated musical based on the long-running Fox series created by Loren Bouchard—is almost in theaters. Ahead of the movie’s May 27 debut, io9 attended a press conference featuring its cast and crew.

The average person suffering from long covid didn’t have a severe infection to begin with, a new report suggests. The study, an examination of private insurance claims, found that three-fourths of diagnosed long covid patients were not hospitalized for covid-19. Additionally, the researchers found that patients were…Read more...

The oceans’ gentle giants are being wiped out by human activity, new research shows.Read more...

In the time that has passed since the Battle of Starcourt, the friendships that make up the heart of Stranger Things have been spread apart, thanks to that season three cliffhanger. We’ll pick up with the characters six months after the events of last season, even though it’s been three years since audiences have been…Read more...

Martin “pharma bro” Shkreli has apparently been released early from a federal prison in Pennsylvania as revealed in a tweet from friend Edmund Sullivan who picked him up. Shkreli will now serve time in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons halfway house at a secret location in New York.

File sharing pioneer Napster is getting a second chance at life, this time, on the blockchain. That’s right, nothing quite screams, “Web3 futurism” like a stumbling, hallowed out 23-year-old internet company.Read more...

On a clear night, it’s possible to see our entire galactic neighborhood from Earth. You need the right conditions: very little light (which is why so few stars are visible in cities), and it’s ideal to be high up, so that there’s not much atmosphere getting in the way of your view. Recently, 25 photographers from 12…Read more...

Marvel might be leading the comic book industry at the box office but it’s bringing up the rear on the awards circuit. The nominees for the biggest prizes in the comic book industry, the Will Eisner Comic Awards, have just been announced for 2022 and DC Comics and Image Comics have the most nominations with 15 (plus…Read more...

The Deep End is an upcoming docuseries—based on the Gizmodo podcast The Gateway—that follows Teal Swan, a self-proclaimed spiritual leader, her tantalizing self-help empire, and those who follow it devoutly.Read more...

Now that the Skywalker Saga is over, what exactly is a Star Wars movie? It’s a question Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been dealing with on a daily basis for years. Things on the streaming side are purring along fairly smoothly. But in theaters? Much less so, and Kennedy thinks it’s mostly because these…Read more...

Scientists dosed the first patient this week in a small clinical trial of an experimental cancer treatment—one that relies on a novel kind of ally. The treatment uses a virus engineered to selectively kill cancer cells, while also amplifying the body’s immune response to the cancer. The hope is that this therapy can…Read more...

SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a host of other private companies helped to make 2021 the year with the most space launches in history, but scientists say this mad dash to space could be causing further damage to our atmosphere.

Robots have traditionally been purpose-built to perform a single, very specific task, but researchers from Beihang University are taking a much different approach with a new robotic drone that can operate underwater just as easily as in the air, and it features a clever, nature-inspired trick for maximizing its range.

Canceling a TV show is one thing. Canceling a TV show in the wake of a massive, shocking cliffhanger is something else entirely. That happened recently with the Netflix sci-fi mystery show Archive 81, and we asked the show’s star, Mamoudou Athie, what would have happened next. “I guess I can talk about it now,” the…Read more...

A legislative commission in Utah has given the green light to study several strategies to help with the worryingly low levels of water in the Great Salt Lake—including potentially building a pipeline to carry water over land from the Pacific Ocean. The study to determine “the feasibility and cost of piping water from…Read more...

This should probably be a short article. I say that because I’m going to make an argument that has been a stone-cold fact for almost 30 years. Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is an excellent movie. Heck, it might even be a perfect movie. Every time you watch it, some new sliver of brilliance is revealed.Read more...

Well, this is awkward. One of Apple’s highest-profile return-to-office detractors reportedly landed a new gig at Alphabet’s DeepMind, marking the latest drama over Big Tech’s remote work scuffles. That move, ironically, comes right around the same time Apple decided to walk back its most recent return-to-office pushRead more...

Genius Brands International and POW! Entertainment have signed a 20-year deal with Marvel to bring Stan Lee back into the MCU and beyond, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comics legend passed away in 2018, and his last in-person cameos were in 2019, for Captain Marvel, where he was digitally de-aged to fit the…Read more...

Initial investigations into the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed into a mountain suggests that someone intentionally caused the plane to plummet. A report by the Wall Street Journal cites “people familiar with U.S. officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident” who claim that data from a…Read more...

Just a few months after revealing its new LinkBuds line of wireless earbuds, Sony is introducing a second version with the LinkBuds S that, like the original, are designed to be worn all day long while adapting to your activities so you can hear the world around you when need to—and tune it out when you don’t.Read more...

It’s alive! Not just a new Rick & Morty animated series, but a Rick & Morty anime series, has been called forth into being by the madmen of Adult Swim, to be helmed by Takashi Sano, who also directed the immensely popular R&M anime shorts “Rick and Morty vs. Genocider” and “Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil).” But…Read more...

An area on the western coast of India has been hit by fragments of space debris that may have been a result of a Chinese rocket re-entering the atmosphere and breaking up into smaller pieces. Sadly, this is becoming an all-too-familiar story.

If you’re reading this, there is a good chance your Steam Deck is either in transit or not yet built. As it stands, new orders are projected to ship in October (or later), a sign of strong demand—and limited supply—for Valve’s portable handheld console. I say this because if you’re anxiously awaiting delivery, you…Read more...

Tired of getting calls from your old pal Spam Likely? Now you might be able to feel the power of being on the other end of an unwanted call, all while tying up the phone lines of Russian bureaucrats, media, and military personnel.Read more...

Climate change is a disaster for wildlife worldwide, according to the most recent IPCC report. At least 10,967 species are facing increased extinction risk because of climate change, and half of all species already seem to be on the move as their habitats transform, according to a 2017 study published in the journal…Read more...

Vin Diesel shares a tiny new look at Riddick 4. Hocus Pocus 2 sets a September release date. The Witcher season 3 casts some sorceresses. Plus, what’s coming on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Spoilers, away!

It’s a big day for Acer, which kicked off its Next@Acer event with its typical onslaught of new products. This year is no different. The Taiwanese laptop maker opened the flood gates and out poured a wide range of new gadgets, from premium Chromebooks to powerful PC gaming rigs.

Small form factor PC gaming is currently making a case for itself as a mainstream pastime, bolstered by the releases of handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and the Aya Neo. While not quite as small or wieldy as those devices, Acer last year made its own foray into an adjacent space with a heavy redesign of its …Read more...