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I don’t consider myself an audiophile but I appreciate a good pair of wired headphones. It’s why you’ll find me wearing Sennheiser HD650 (OK, fine, the Massdrop XX version) on most days. When it comes to listening on mobile, I’ve been backed into a corner by the slow extinction of 3.5mm headphone jacks. A few years…Read more...

America’s creepiest facial recognition company just suffered one of its biggest blows yet. As part of a settlement with the ACLU, Clearview will be “permanently banned, nationwide,” from selling access to its faceprint database to most businesses across the country.Read more...

NASA held a press conference Monday morning to discuss the precise alignment of the Webb Space Telescope and the spacecraft’s upcoming scientific operations. The space agency also released images from the telescope that put Webb’s progress on dazzling display.Read more...

At least 10 people are dead and hundreds of homes and buildings are destroyed after wildfires ripped through eastern Siberia this weekend. High winds, officials said, both helped cause the fires and spread them out of control, after downed power lines short-circuited and sparked the flames, which were then blown…Read more...

If you’re one of the cursed few who has not heard of the Locked Tomb series, now is the perfect time to be introduced. Tamsyn Muir’s science-fantasy debut, Gideon the Ninth, rocked the lit-o-sphere, running amok among queer fans, science-fiction nerds, and selling out a dozen times over. The sequel, Harrow the Ninth,…Read more...

The ongoing drought in the U.S. West is turning Nevada’s Lake Mead into something out of a true crime series.Read more...

On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Instagram would start experimenting with NFTs on the social network with a small group of U.S. creators and collectors this week. Throughout the test, Instagram will allow these users to share NFTs they’ve created or bought on their profiles for free, setting it apart…Read more...

Acclaimed comics creator George Pérez passed away on Friday, May 6, after revealing his stage 3 cancer diagnosis in December. Pérez has been remembered for plenty of comics across his long career, from creating the epic DC maxiseries Crisis on Infinite Earths with writer Marv Wolfman to collaborating with Marvel…Read more...

Costa Rica is pulling out all the stops to beat back a vicious ransomware attack from last month as it has publicly announced it will be doing everything it can prevent giving Russian hackers the $10 million they’ve demanded.

A super-discouraging moment happened last week on Jeopardy!, when none of the show’s three contestants could answer a very basic question about NASA’s multi-billion dollar Moon program.

This week we’re about to venture back to the early days of the Clone Wars in Mike Chen’s Star Wars: Brotherhood, but always in motion, the future is—and there’s always more Star Wars fiction to tease. Up next is Shadow of the Sith from Adam Christopher, and io9 has a look inside... and a look at the book’s mysterious…Read more...

Google’s next Google I/O developer conference is just around the corner—literally, it starts Wednesday. Tune in on May 11 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET to learn what’s new across Google’s vast portfolio of platforms. If you register for the event, you can even hop in on the sessions to get developer-centric information on…Read more...

Microsoft could soon remove the biggest barrier standing between gamers and its popular Xbox Cloud Gaming service. The company will reportedly release a streaming stick—described by VentureBeat as possibly resembling an Amazon Fire Stick or Roku-like Puck—that would remove the need to buy a console, a barrier to entry…Read more...

The Biden Administration announced a new program to provide low cost, or free, internet service for low-income households in an effort to increase connectivity across the country. On Monday, the White House released details about the the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which would be available to tens of…Read more...

A great Marvel Cinematic Universe movie should feel like a whole season of television. It satisfies on its own but has a cliffhanger and teases that leave you excited to speculate and break down every little detail. Well, Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is all that and more. A fun, weird,…Read more...

Uber, the rideshare and delivery company that already doesn’t want to recognize its drivers as workers, said it will “treat hiring as a privilege,” going forward. The announcement came in an email from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to staff on Sunday night, first released by CNBC.

Although plenty of games themselves allow players to move around and freely explore fully realized 3D worlds and environments, fans watching their favorite gamer’s exploits on streaming services like Twitch are restricted to just that gamer’s perspective: but that may not be the case for long.Read more...

If you thought that the sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 beyond-blockbuster sci-fi film Avatar was never going to come out, well, that makes sense, it’s been 13 years since the original came to movie screens, and the sequel was originally scheduled to premiere way, way back in 2014. It’s only taken eight years, but it…Read more...

Warner Bros. has eyed a new fantasy mystery project from the writers of The Eternals. Meet the new and returning faces of Umbrella Academy’s third season. Plus, what’s coming on The Flash and Riverdale, and a new look at the next Halo. To me, my spoilers!

Emotions are running high around the word “fetus” after last week’s news about the possible end to Roe V. Wade and women’s right to safe abortion.Read more...

The news is filled with cryptocurrency hacks and rug pulls virtually every day. But what about those legitimate crypto coins that have been around for a while? They’re not doing so hot either these days.

It’s blockbuster movie season again, and that means some pretty big box office opens. After Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Universal’s The Bad Guys managed to hold back Nicholas Cage and vikings for a handful of weeks, here comes Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness doing what all Marvel movies do and making a…Read more...

There’s a full month left before Ms. Marvel stretches her way over to Disney+ and gives the MCU a different kind of teen spirit. Details on the show have been pretty mum up to now, but a new promo gives us a better look at what Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan will be capable of in her own TV miniseries.

The last couple of years have delivered us some solid kaiju fun in the form of Ultraman, numerous Godzilla projects from both Japan and the US, and Kaiju No. 8. Whether they’re metaphors for climate change or the atrocities that human beings inflict on one another, or just big ass monsters, watching kaiju wreck…Read more...

Well, it’s finally here. After numerous delays, cryptic trailers, and plenty of teases about who could or couldn’t be showing up, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness arrived in theaters this weekend. It’s going to make a ton of money, as is often the case with MCU movies, and reviews are have been generally…Read more...

Though 2021 was a big year for animation in the west thanks to hits like Arcane and The Mitchells vs. The Machines, 2022 has had a bit of a shaky start for the medium. There’s been some pretty good series and films released thus far, but the larger industry is going through a bit of an upheaval in an effort to ensure…Read more...

The BBC has announced that Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa has been cast as the latest star of Doctor Who, bringing the 14th Doctor to screens in 2023.Read more...

It’s been quite awhile since we’ve heard anything about Amazon’s live action adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s critically acclaimed graphic novel series, Paper Girls. But since today’s Free Comic Book Day, Amazon must’ve decided that now was the perfect time to give the first look at the mystery sci-fi…Read more...

George Pérez, the acclaimed comics writer and artist behind such works as Crisis on Infinite Earths, passed away on at the age of 67.Read more...

While the comic book community has had about a full decade to get used to the idea of Jane Foster as Thor, and she’s shown up in the Avengers Assemble cartoon from a few years back, Thor: Love & Thunder marks the first real attempt at making Jane Foster’s mighty brand of lightning strike with wider audiences. It’s one…Read more...

There’ve been on-and-off hopes for some time now that the sci-fi cult classic Quantum Leap starring Scott Bakula and the late Dean Stockwell would receive some kind of continuation. Creator Donald Bellisario made a script for a film meant to pick up where the series left off, and late last year, news started swirling…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the most fun, and occasionally weirdest, way to spend your money on the internet. This week, Lego turns to Marvel for its cutest new set, Hasbro teases what’s coming from its Obi-Wan Kenobi merch, and... well, have you ever needed more encouragement for proper…Read more...

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Web3 is off to a rip-roaring start. The theoretical transformation of digital society via the blockchain is supposed to usher in a bold new decentralized internet powered by cryptocurrency. The revolution has begun, the crypto ads tell us! The world is changing. Get your Slurp Juice now!Read more...

If you’ve watched anime on Netflix recently, you might have been recommended a series called Thermae Romae Novae. You might have glanced at the picture, wondered, “Is this a series about a guy from ancient Rome taking a bath?” and immediately moved on. I’m here to tell you that’s almost exactly what this series is…Read more...

Horror fans all know the trope: when tragedy strikes, evil spirits try to prey on the survivors left behind. (Bonus points if there’s a child involved.) The Twin—the English-language debut of Finnish writer-director Taneli Mustonen (2016's true crime-inspired Lake Bodom), who co-wrote with producer Aleksi Hyvärinen,…Read more...

In yet another indication that the U.S. is over the covid-19 pandemic—although health officials state it is by no means over yet—Lyft announced on Thursday that it was bringing back carpooling to five cities this month: San Francisco, San Jose, Denver, Las Vegas, and Atlanta. The ride hailing company plans to relaunch…Read more...

The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up for environmental justice efforts. Attorney General Merrick Garland just announced a new office of the department that will exclusively focus on the human impacts of pollution and climate changed-fueled disasters.Read more...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds heads to the franchise’s past to tell adventure stories for a bright, optimistic future—but its very first episode has looked to our own recent history to provide a proxy that has some very unfortunate connotations.

The biggest airplane ever built just flew over the Mojave desert for its fifth test flight, inching closer to fulfilling its role of carrying and releasing hypersonic vehicles.Read more...

A glass recycling and shoreline restoration project in New Orleans was inspired by a bottle of wine. Cofounders Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz met as students at Tulane University. One night, over drinks, they lamented about how their wine bottle would just end up in the trash, because New Orleans does not recycle…Read more...

If you’ve recently unwrapped a brand new Windows 11 computer or perhaps built one yourself, then you’re going to have to go through the setup process for Microsoft’s newest operating system—and while Cortana may have been dropped, there are still plenty of screens to work through and plenty of options to choose from.

As I walked home from a (more or less) midnight unlock showing of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, I turned the last corner to get to my house, and I saw a flashing light. A group of them. There, on the corner, at a house I had walked by hundreds of times, the porch light was turning on and off, on and…Read more...

Free speech is great and all, unless what they’re saying about you is false.Read more...

The arrival of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is giving us our latest imagining of the iconic original series uniform—but Star Trek is home to so many wonderful uniforms that it’s time to go where no runway has gone before, and shine a light on which ones make the cut... and which ones are best used as phaser-fodder.

Evidence of a virus that infects pigs was found in the body of David Bennet Sr., the recipient of a genetically modified pig heart in an experimental transplant surgery. Bennet died in March at 57 years old, two months after undergoing the last-resort operation, which was the first of its kind ever performed.

Five GOP senators are trying to create a new rating for television shows that feature LGBTQ+ characters and topics. The group outlined their reasoning in a letter to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board. For a party so hellbent on complaining about cancel culture, the Grand Old Party seems to be really obsessed…Read more...

There was a short time in 2021 when Facebook blocked all Australian users from sharing news across their feeds. The drastic change came in response to a proposed law from the country’s authorities that would strongarm the social media company into paying for news content. Even at the time, people in Australia and…Read more...

Your Friday just got a whole lot more gruesome, for the red-band trailer for David Cronenberg’s much-anticipated return to full-on body horror has arrived. Behold, a fresh glimpse at Crimes of the Future to make your stomach (and other internal organs) lurch with cinematic glee.Read more...

PC gamers often cite the precision of a mouse and keyboard as an advantage over playing on a console. While a valid argument, there is something familiar about gaming with a controller. I do it when I play Halo Infinite on my desktop, and though I could probably score a slightly better kill-to-death ratio with a mouse…Read more...