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Following hot on the heels of leaks from trusted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that claim Apple will finally be ditching its proprietary Lightning connector for the more widely supported USB-C standard in future iPhones, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is adding some credibility of his own to the rumor. Earlier today, he reported that…Read more...

Wildfires are brutal out here. So much so that Oregon, a historically temperate state that is seeing rapidly rising temperatures, is creating laws to protect its workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke.

Hard to believe, but it’s been nearly two and a half years since Boeing’s first botched test of its Starliner CST-100 spacecraft. Yep, it’s been a minute, so here’s a recap of the past 28 tumultuous months, and how Boeing might finally make good on providing a viable commercial crew vehicle for NASA.Read more...

In a medium where long-lasting superhero characters have rollercoaster ups and downs over their careers, it’s a rare few that have had some downs quite like the Scarlet Witch. Even ascendant as part of the vanguard in the Marvel movieverse’s fourth phase, her latest appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of…Read more...

Google I/O was all the gadget world was talking about this week, but can you blame us? The company came out of the woodwork with its new Pixel lineup. Google laid out its plans for the Pixel 6a, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, Pixel Buds Pro, and even teased the Pixel tablet. There’s so much good Pixel stuff to sink your teeth…Read more...

Coming soon to Batuu is a new opportunity to take up a career in (pretend) mercenary work through the upgraded version of Disney Parks’ MagicBand. And it’s about time, as the roll out on immersive experiences at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has definitely hit a number of delays along with shifts to premium experiences…Read more...

In a rare nugget of climate-related good news, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday that it is canceling three offshore oil and gas drilling lease sales: one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and the other two in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the near future, the moon has become home to an idyllic community populated by people who’ve fled a dying Earth and are trying to figure out the future of the human race. But all is not as it seems in Moonhaven—also the name of AMC+’s new summer sci-fi series. io9 has the exclusive teaser debut below!

The mother of a 10-year-old daughter who died last year is suing TikTok and its parent company ByteDance over allegations the company’s algorithm promoted a so-called “Blackout Challenge” to the child’s feed.Read more...

The device that helped turn Apple into a $3 trillion company (a milestone it passed earlier this year) is officially dead, as the last iteration of the iPod, the iPod Touch, was laid to rest earlier this week. But for those with more discerning ears who refuse to enjoy their music through a smartphone, rest assured…Read more...

Here’s something spooky: the day io9 got an email inviting us to debut the new trailer for Joshua Grannell’s 2010 horror-comedy cult classic All About Evil, I just so happened to be wearing my “Peaches Christ Is My Homegirl” sweatshirt—Peaches Christ being Grannell’s horror-loving drag alter ego. The movie gods…Read more...

Google I/O 2022 was much shorter this year. Rather than three full days of virtual sessions and talks, Google opted for two days for its developer conference, with most announcements happening within the two hours of its opening keynote. The company walked us through much of what it’s been working on behind the…Read more...

Although humans can fly with the help of copious engineering, Mother Nature has already come up with much simpler ways to soar, like the way a maple tree’s spinning seeds scatter by floating on the wind like unpowered helicopters. It’s a beautifully efficient design, and one that inspired this s…Read more...

Summer movies make their fully triumphant return in 2022—but don’t forget about your TV, which took care of you when you couldn’t leave the house. This summer brings new seasons of Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and more, plus some red-hot debuts from some of nerd-dom’s biggest franchises.Read more...

A fire in Laguna Niguel, California, has burned through 200 acres and several multimillion-dollar homes since it started on May 11. The cause of the Coastal Fire, which is burning just a few miles southeast of Laguna Beach, has yet to be determined.Read more...

Few things are worse than being invited to a destination wedding, but U-Boat Worx, a company known for its private submarines that seem perfect for Bond villains, has plans to build a massive sub designed specifically for hosting large parties under water, like a destination wedding that could actually be kind of fun.Read more...

Following efforts to ban the use of facial recognition technology by authorities, it seems that some cities are having second thoughts amidst an increase in their crime rate. Some U.S. states and cities are now moving to eliminate their ban on facial recognition including Virginia, California, and New Orleans, …Read more...

Maybe there’s a couple of flips, too, because it wouldn’t be a new Kamen Rider movie from a man who absolutely loves Kamen Rider without some cool flips.

Four Democratic congressional representatives sent letters Thursday to the heads of the biggest social media companies asking them to create an archive of content coming out of Ukraine that can document Russian war crimes.Read more...

A few members of the Obi-Wan Kenobi cast and crew appeared in London, England for a press call, and while the pictures are mostly just two men (Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor) staring straight ahead and looking drab in comparison to Moses Ingram, we still managed to find a couple gems to we wanted to share. (You…Read more...

It’s not all bad news at the CW, however, as the Supernatural prequel and Gotham Knights get series pick ups. The Enterprise has transporter trouble in a new clip from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Plus, Alan Wake is heading to AMC, and get a new look at a poster for Stranger Things season 4. Spoilers away!

In terms of productivity and convenience, having more than one way to do something—archive an email, take a screenshot, search the web—is usually better than having a single method. You can pick whichever one suits you best, or even jump between these approaches as situations change.

Do Kwon, the founder of the cryptocurrency Luna and the stablecoin TerraUSD, has reportedly been in contact with police after a possible investor in the coin “trespassed” at his home, according to a new report from South Korea’s largest newspaper, The Chosun Ilbo. Crypto News reports the investor lost roughly $1.56…Read more...

After bullying Twitter employees and saying he wants the former president of the swamp, and the U.S., Donald Trump back on the platform, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did what everyone thought he might do anyway. He thought long and hard about what it meant to really buy Twitter, and is apparently having second thoughts.Read more...

If you’ve visited a website in recent days and been randomly redirected to the same pages with sketchy “resources” or unwanted ads, it’s likely the site in question was 1) built with WordPress tools and 2) hacked.Read more...

Hey, they missed us too! After such a drought of new Orville content, things are finally heating up as the show’s long-awaited return (and debut on Hulu!) rapidly approaches. Today that means a brand-new trailer that gives a glimpse of what to expect from the series’ third season, The Orville: New Horizons.

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There are lots of new things happening at Epcot as part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and io9 was invited to preview the latest expansions.Read more...

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If you’re concerned that somebody might be trying to track you through your phone, then just be aware they might be getting help from Google’s ad policies.Read more...

The fuzzy, bright-orange trappings of a cosmic beast that lurks in the heart of our galaxy made quite the impact today on scientists and space nerds alike. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released its first image the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, in another major…Read more...

Twitter is reducing its number of characters: the social media company fired two executives Thursday, one while he was on paternity leave.Read more...

On Thursday, the chair of an international financial watchdog said that he expects there will be a global cryptocurrency regulatory body within the next year. In light of recent panicked freefall of multiple “stable” coins, we probably need one.

Thanks to a recent re-release, James Cameron’s 2009 CG megahit Avatar has toppled Avengers: Endgame to regain the #1 spot as the highest-grossing movie of all time. Chances are Endgame will get a revival eventually, and then Avatar will have another, and the two films will trade places back and forth for years, all…Read more...

Oil and gas companies are gearing up to invest in so many new projects that they’ll blow away potential progress to mitigate emissions and stop worst-case climate scenarios, says a new investigation from the Guardian.Read more...

A brand-new take on Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, previously adapted as a Drew Barrymore film in 1984, arrives in theaters and on Peacock this week, and it struck us just how many TV and movie versions of the prolific author’s popular works have been made... and then re-made.Read more...

Digital privacy legislation in the U.S. is a bafflingly fractured mess, and it’s about to get even more so. On Thursday, Reuters reported that Joe Biden’s administration had whipped up an executive order meant to give the Department of Justice “vast powers” to stop foreign “adversaries”—like Russia or China—from…Read more...

After a scientific expedition released video of what looks an awful lot like a brick path on the seafloor, the New York Post asked, “Have researchers found an undersea road to the lost city of Atlantis?” No, of course they haven’t. But they did find a neat natural phenomenon linked to underwater volcanoes.Read more...

In its first 10 years of moviemaking, Marvel Studios established something of a myth that persists to this very day: “In Feige We Trust,” fans would exult, as if a prayer to ward against evil rather than a parasocial relationship with a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The idea that Marvel’s movies were all…Read more...

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The Legendary and Warner Bros. Dune franchise has found its Emperor Shaddam. Deadline reports that Christopher Walken has been cast in Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated sequel for the sci-fi series.Read more...

Apparently, all it took to access 16 internal databases used by federal agencies was a username and password.Read more...

You really haven’t attended a chaotic interview until you wake up at 8 a.m. to speak to game designers and comic writers in the UK, only to have them talk about the merits of Chicago pizza versus the more “traditional” New York style. Kieron Gillen (DIE, The Wicked + The Divine, and many, many more) is married to an…Read more...

Recycling goals from large companies aren’t going to save our seas from plastic pollution.Read more...

The long road towards autonomous vehicles just hit another speed bump.Read more...

Teenage Engineering has recently been in the spotlight for helping Panic create its Playdate handheld, but the company is best known for its brilliant OP-1 portable synth and sequencer. It’s been a beloved electronic instrument for musicians for 11 years now, so instead of completely reinventing it, the company has…Read more...

For the first time ever, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil returned from the Apollo missions. But given the degree of stress seen in these plants, it’s unlikely we’ll be farming on the Moon anytime soon.Read more...

In the same way that life imitates art, digital art also imitates the real-life art scene. NFT marketplaces have been experiencing a growing fraud problem with scammers creating fake copies of the non-fungible tokens and selling them online, but at least one company is fighting back.Read more...

He may have been dusted into oblivion for five years, but Star-Lord is now back with a vengeance. After reappearing in Avengers: Endgame along with his fellow Guardians of the Galaxy, the pop-music obsessed Terran will next be seen both in this summer’s Thor: Love and Thunder as well as next summer’s Guardians of the…Read more...