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Sharon Lavigne won the 2021 Goldman Prize for environmental defenders this year. She never meant to become an activist, let alone the face of a key environmental justice fight in the U.S. But in 2018, when Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that a company called Wanhua was set to build a new plastics plant in…Read more...

Imagine for a moment, if you will, all of the ailments plaguing our society: A devastating global pandemic; widespread and accelerating ecological collapse; the looming threat of a Swedish House Mafia reunion tour.Read more...

Intel’s upcoming batch of 12th-gen processors is slated to go on sale sometime later this year. But just this week, one lucky customer actually received two of Intel’s new desktop chips weeks ahead of their official release.Read more...

What if a bunch of cool My Hero Academia villains banded together for a heist like the Lupin the 3rd gang? And they were opposed by various heroes who were huge assholes, like The Boys? And, uh, occasionally they had Akira-like motorcycles? The answer to these questions is the same: You’d get Super Crooks, a new anime…Read more...

On Thursday night, Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave the green light to boosters for those who took the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson covid-19 vaccines. She also made clear that people who are on the recommended list for a booster can take a different brand of vaccine than…Read more...

Apple announced the new MacBook Pros earlier this week, which means the rumor mill has already moved on to the next Mac in the lineup: The 2022 MacBook Air. And so far, it’s looking like there will be a number of changes for Apple’s entry-level MacBook.Read more...

Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn—billed as a blend of the legend of King Arthur and Southern Black Girl Magic—was released last year and soon became a YA sensation. Today, io9 is thrilled to have the exclusive first look at the cover and an excerpt from its sequel, Bloodmarked, which sees the return of teenager Bree as she…Read more...

Hocus Pocus 2 adds to its cast. Mark Hamill ruminates on whether or not neighborly proximity could get him a role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The cast of Marvel’s Eternals talk up director Chloé Zhao. Plus, a look at the return of Resident Alien and Animaniacs. Spoilers now!

It’s refreshing to see Apple correcting some of the crimes of Ives with its new MacBook Pros that ditch the Touch Bar but regain an SD card slot and HDMI. But you can never have enough ports, and Satechi’s new USB-C Hybrid Multiport Adapter has tons of ‘em with a side of extra storage too.Read more...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you will find, on any YouTube video and any Instagram or Twitter post by a celebrity, at least one comment with the words “Please Come to Brazil.” The ubiquitousness of the phrase to the ecology of the internet can be summed up by a version of the Mike Wazowski Explaining…Read more...

Instagram has finally added the ability to upload photos and videos through your web browser, which means you can ditch the smartphone app and commit yourself to using the social network on your desktop instead. (Right?) Here’s everything you can (and can’t do) on Instagram on the web—and any device with a web…Read more...

There has been a lot of noise in recent years about mini-LED, microLED (which are still too big and expensive for most homes), and QLED TVs in a bid to steal the crown from OLED, and while there are some compelling options out there, OLED remains the best value for performance and price.Read more...

The world’s largest Triceratops skeleton ever discovered was sold at auction for roughly $7.7 million on Thursday, according to a new report from Reuters. The auction estimate before bidding started was that it would only fetch about $1.7 million.Read more...

Russia’s capital city of Moscow will enter a 10-day lockdown starting next week as new cases of covid-19 and deaths from the disease reach new daily highs. The lockdown, which won’t start until Thursday, Oct. 28, comes as Russian hospitals struggle with a horrific surge of largely unvaccinated patients.Read more...

It’s a good day to be a mainstream politically conservative party or a right-leaning news outlet on Twitter. The company has released the results of a study analyzing algorithmic amplification of political content on the platform, which affirms what had already been suspected by some: The political right does really…Read more...

If you thought the global supply chain disruptions only affected your receipt at the grocery store or your ability to get the newest Apple product, think again. The paint industry is going through an intense supply chain crunch right now, which is bad news if your home improvement or renovation projects require the…Read more...

In director Miguel Sapochnik’s upcoming post-apocalyptic drama Finch, Tom Hanks stars as the titular inventor who finds himself living in almost complete solitude after a cataclysmic event wipes out the vast bulk of the world’s population save for him and his dog. Keen on making sure that his canine companion is taken…Read more...

The most recent former president’s new social media platform—goofily called The Truth Social—would appear to be sourced from derivative code that could potentially get him sued.Read more...

Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno loves three things: existential trauma, tokusatsu, and movie titles with the word Shin in them. His latest project has... hmm, let’s go with two out of three, sort of. One and a bit.

After some frustrating covid-releated delays, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi saga Dune is almost here; it launches in theaters and on HBO Max in mere hours (HBO Max will have it at 6:00pm ET today). But naturally, and no doubt to the streaming-averse director’s chagrin, online…Read more...

Facing increased regulatory pressure, on Thursday, Google moved to further slash the fees it collects from downloads of its subscription-based Play Store offerings for Android.Read more...

A new report out on Thursday warns that plastics will overtake coal-fired power plants as a major leading source of greenhouse emissions in the U.S. in less than a decade. The continued rise of plastic production threatens to wipe away the modest progress made against climate change that’s come from reducing our…Read more...

Like many people in the last year and a half, a retreat indoors and away from public events to grapple with the scope of the covid-19 pandemic led to a retreat to the indulgence of past hobbies and nostalgic loves. As the prospect of staying inside went on for longer and longer, I binge-watched old favorites,…Read more...

It’s been a rough year for gadget makers. The global chip shortage has impacted everything from the PlayStation 5 to graphics cards. For a while, it seemed like Apple had avoided the worst of the supply chain woes, but it looks like that luck has finally run out.Read more...

Ex-president and incumbent goblin king Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is launching Truth Social, a MAGA competitor for the likes of Facebook and Twitter, where bigots and conspiracy theorists can roam free from the prying eyes of mods. That is extremely bad news for its circus parade of competitors,…Read more...

An investigation into the effects of ivory poaching has led to the discovery of an increasing number of tuskless female African elephants—the consequences of which aren’t entirely clear.

Science fiction dystopia stories are a dime a dozen: The Handmaid’s Tale, Minority Report, The Hunger Games—the list goes on. But here’s why you shouldn’t pass over first-time director Danis Goulet’s sci-fi dystopia movie, Night Raiders: although it’s set in 2043, it’s much more about the horrors of the past than it…Read more...

While HBO might be betting on House of the Dragon becoming the (actual) next Game of Thrones in terms of its possible ratings success, one of the more promising things about the show from an audience perspective has been its potential to explore the history of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros with a story distinct from…Read more...

The grassroots Amazon Labor Union is finally gearing up for an election after gathering thousands of worker signatures.

A few months ago, I made a mistake. After years of faithful service, including 18 months of quarantine in which it was used 8-12 hours per day, the seat of my faithful office chair disintegrated. The new chair I bought to replace my previous one is about as comfortable as sitting in the bed of a truck, to the point…Read more...

The best part of building your own gaming rig is that you can deck everything out in killer lighting. Whether you’re sporting hot pink across the board or you’re more into a subdued blue, there’s no denying that the result of LEDs all over a PC is simply pure fun.

Darth Vader’s black figure stalking a bright, white corridor enshrouded in smoke. The too-cool casual slouch of Han Solo in the Mos Eisley Cantina. The alien noise and hooded mystique of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hell, even the childish, relatable angst of Luke Skywalker just wanting to go to Tosche Station and pick up some power…Read more...

Addressing its long-running feud with Google publicly for the first time on Thursday, Roku said in a blog post that it had yet to reach a renewed distribution agreement with the search behemoth, which could lead to both the Google-owned YouTube and YouTube TV apps disappearing from the streaming platform indefinitely…Read more...

Humans are very rarely the good guys in extinction narratives, given our proclivity for pushing species to the brink of extinction, and often over it. But we’re almost certainly absolved of guilt in the case of the woolly mammoth, according to an international team of scientists who spent the past 10 years sifting…Read more...

Like its 2004 predecessor, the CW’s 4400 reboot—from co-creators Anna Fricke and Ariana Jackson—is an ambitious, multi-genre series trying to tell a complicated story about humanity being confronted with the consequences of its actions, and being given a chance to put some things right. Obvious as that reality might…Read more...

Smart home device makers are all on board with a new standard called Matter that will make all of your stuff play nicely together, and Google is now working to get developers on board with that vision. It’s also rebranding its smart home ecosystem to Google Home, which will incorporate everything from its smart…Read more...

Nintendo’s upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus is set in the distant past, at a point in time when the modern day Sinnoh Region was still known as the Hisui region, and people did not live in especially close harmony with wild Pokémon. Unlike some older Pokémon games where you play as a young trainer born into a world…Read more...

A single fossil site containing the remains of dozens of individuals from a range of age groups is the earliest evidence that long-necked, four-legged dinosaurs lived in herds.

The West desperately needs rain—and it’s set to get some, although it might be too much of a needed thing. An atmospheric river will bring heavy rain and snow to California and parts of the Pacific Northwest this weekend, in what could be the most precipitation the region has seen in nine months.Read more...

Fashion and technology, particularly when it comes to wearables, are inextricably linked. We’re already wearing smartwatches, and smart glasses look to be the next big thing. But whatever our wearable tech future looks like, I assure you these Balenciaga LED Frame Sunglasses are not it.Read more...

An old steel mill is getting a new lease on life in Pueblo, Colorado. The company will be the first in the world to get the majority of its energy from solar power.

We first saw Broadcast Signal Intrusion at SXSW earlier this year. Its story—about a grieving Chicago man named James (Harry Shum Jr.) who becomes consumed by a sinister mystery hidden in a series of vintage videotapes—stuck with us. At last, it’s arriving in theaters and on digital this week, so we eagerly hopped on…Read more...

On Wednesday night, the Food and Drug Administration officially authorized the use of boosters for eligible people vaccinated against covid-19 with either the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine. They’ve also given their blessing for people to mix and match different types of vaccines for their booster—a likely…Read more...

Tom Hardy just can’t stop teasing Venom crossovers. The cast of the Marvel’s Eternals introduce their heroes. Get a glimpse of Legends of Tomorrow’s 100th episode. Plus, David Gordon Green talks about the challenge of the competing Hellraiser reboots. To me, my spoilers!

These days you really only hear about hoverboards on “hey, do you remember?...” lists. But Ninebot, the company who bought the Segway brand, really wants them to still be a thing and continues to cook up wacky add-ons for the self-balancing devices, including a new ride-on that turns them into a tank that really fires.Read more...

It was a balmy day in Taiwan in November 2019, and I was rummaging through the Family Mart adjoined to the Qishan Bus Station. It was my last chance for 9V batteries and spicy tuna rice balls before taking a taxi into the mountains, where many of the remaining Indigenous languages of the island are spoken, the rest…Read more...

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg have been holding onto the Uncharted movie for years, In fact, it’s been so long that Wahlberg was holding precariously onto the edge of the cliff, having been cast as lead Nathan Drake—only to age out of that role into the role of Drake’s mentor Scully. Holland made his way to the cliff…Read more...

The news that Disney was prepping a remake/sequel of Home Alone for its streaming service was all the more upsetting when the first trailer for Home Sweet Home Alone was actually released. Instead of watching that, thanks to Lego, you can instead immerse yourself in the original holiday classic with this spectacular…Read more...

Nvidia is giving its GeForce Now cloud gaming service a big boost in performance with the new RTX 3080 membership.Read more...

Pablo Escobar’s hippos have a lawyer. And a good one at that. In a U.S. first, a court recognized the animals as legal persons. That could be the hippos’ salvation in the ongoing fight about what to do with one of the world’s most rotund and dangerous invasive species.Read more...