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Officials with the Washington State Department of Agriculture have eradicated their second Asian giant hornet nest of the year, but a third nest was spotted nearby. Which, uh oh.

Halloween season is approaching, and as the days get shorter, our thoughts inevitably turn to all things spooky. With that in mind, io9 knew we wanted to speak with Marc Hartzman, author of the brand-new nonfiction release Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination With Spirits and the Supernatural.Read more...

Despite what the Marvel Cinematic Universe had previously made us believe, the Disney+ animated show What If? made it clear Steve Rogers wasn’t the only person who could become a hero with that mythic super serum. In an alternate timeline, it was Peggy Carter, not Rogers, that took the serum and became not Captain…Read more...

Illinois passed one of the most aggressive clean energy bills in the country on Monday, in a rousing success for environmental advocates that, unusually, also bails out some of the state’s biggest sources of clean power: nuclear energy.Read more...

The iPhone 13 has finally landed: Today Apple took the wraps off its latest iPhones, and as expected, there are four of them.

If director Sion Sono hadn’t had a heart attack, his latest film would not be what it is today. Sono was prepping his English-language debut, Prisoners of the Ghostland starring Nicolas Cage, to film in Mexico. However, after the life-changing event, his Oscar-winning star suggested maybe shooting in Sono’s home…Read more...

Apple’s smallest iPad might not get quite as much attention as its bigger siblings, but today, Apple took the wraps off a completely redesigned iPad Mini. It’s got a bigger screen, a more powerful processor, and comes in a range of colors. The Mini is no longer the forgotten runt of the iPad family.

After some question of whether production issues would delay the Apple Watch Series 7's launch, Apple’s next-gen flagship smartwatch is here. The Series 7 brings about the most significant redesign of the Apple Watch since the smartwatch launched in 2015.Read more...

Earther is working with the podcast Drilled to take you to school.

In FX on Hulu’s adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man comic, global society collapses within moments of the onset of a mysterious event that kills almost every living mammal with a Y chromosome. Though Yorick—the world’s last living cisgender man—is one of Y’s primary protagonists, the series…Read more...

The Federal Election Commission has found that Twitter didn’t break any kind of election law when it blocked people from posting links to a New York Post story filled with dubious claims about Hunter Biden’s laptop.Read more...

Emmys aren’t just for actors. Sure, when you see the Emmy Awards on TV, it’s mostly honoring big-name stars and stuff like Best Comedy or Best Drama series. But the Emmys, more so than most other award shows, go way, way deeper. The Creative Emmys, which takes place over multiple days and gets edited down for air,…Read more...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has penalized companies tied to Guo Wengui, the fugitive Chinese billionaire who fled the nation in 2014 and has since ingratiated himself with several prominent right-wing personalities in the U.S., to the tune of over half a billion dollars.

Step aside, space barons. Steve Wozniak has announced space plans.

To date, every mission to low Earth orbit has included at least one professional, government-employed astronaut. That’s set to change this week as an all-civilian crew prepares to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It feels like only yesterday that we said good bye to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Netflix and Dreamworks’ excellent animated reboot of the iconic heroine and her friends. And while Prince Adam is off on adventures classic and new on the streamer, Adora and Etheria are taking a leap into a whole new realm...…Read more...

The Galaxy Tab S7 FE is Samsung’s latest Android tablet, and it’s solidly mid-range compared to last year’s Galaxy Tab S7+. But the added DeX capabilities make it just as usable as a Chromebook, plus it boasts a big, beautiful screen.

After news broke two weeks ago that Google-owned YouTube had forced Groovy bot offline, it was widely considered to be only a matter of time before the platform came for the other popular Discord bots that use it to source music. Now, it appears that Rythm’s number come up: YouTube has reportedly served the bot a…Read more...

The current Star Wars canon may be embracing the time of the High Republic, which takes place 200 years before the events of the movies. But in the series’ old EU, now the “Legends” of Star Wars fiction beyond the realm of canonicity, the Old Republic rules the roost. Last week, we saw Darth Revan’s return in the …Read more...

Researchers in Germany recently demonstrated that cattle can be toilet trained to reduce some of their climate impact. By having the young cows pee in latrines made of turf, the team of experts in animal behavior and agricultural science stopped the natural production of nitrous oxide from the cow’s urine.Read more...

The market price of cryptocurrency token Litecoin shot up by as much as 35 percent and then fell back down on Monday after a fake press release published by GlobeNewsWire claimed that the company was partnering with Walmart, CNBC reports.Read more...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a $152.5 million federal contract to launch an important new weather satellite into space.

Though many know her from her live-action roles, Hayley Atwell’s recent appearance in Marvel’s What If...? made clear that the British actress is more than capable of bringing characters to life using just her voice alone. While Atwell’s set to pop up at least one more time before What If’s first season is over,…Read more...

Google has been working to provide better integration between Android phones and Chromebooks for years with features like its Phone Hub, but with its new “Push” feature, Google looks like it’s closer to delivering a proper alternative to Apple’s Handoff feature for Macs and iPhones.Read more...

Two weeks removed Hurricane Ida, another tropical cyclone is bearing down on the Gulf region. While Tropical Storm Nicholas won’t pose nearly the same threat as Ida when it comes to wind and storm surge, it’s going to be a monster rainmaker as it climbs the Texas coastline. Nicholas’ rain will also drench communities…Read more...

Matt Long will return for at least part of Manifest’s fourth and final season. A taste of what’s in the works for Riverdale, Supergirl, The Walking Dead, and more. Team Archer gets drinks, in the most Archer way. Plus, another tiny little glimpse of Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop. Spoilers, away!

There’s good news for anyone who drooled over the upgrades in the extra-thick Game Boy Advance SP we shared last month but lacked the skills needed to build their own. Macho Nacho Productions, the team who created it, has revealed plans to produce and sell an upgrade kit so (almost) anyone can mod their own GBA SP.Read more...

We’ve seen pictures and heard rumors, but at long last, we have our first official look at the Avenging Archers of Hawkeye in action.

For a lot of people, Chromebooks are all the computer that they need. Aside from some heavy-duty image and video editing, there isn’t much that you can’t do inside a web browser these days. If there are times when you need a full Windows or macOS desktop application running inside Chrome OS, this is pretty easy to set…Read more...

Personally, I’m hard-pressed to think of even a single way in which the experience of air travel might be improved. If I was the National Plane Commissioner, my official policy would be, don’t change a thing. I am positive that everyone shares this view. Nonetheless, inevitably, things change. Air travel in 20 years…Read more...

Countries around the world are racing to get their populations vaccinated, with 30% of the globe now protected against serious disease and death from covid-19. But some countries are doing better than others since Gizmodo last checked back in July.

Despite their horrible impact on the planet, NFTs are still unfortunately in style. Now, you can go spend money to look at a whole bunch of NFT artworks, including the most expensive piece ever sold—Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS—at a festival in New York City.

One of the most entertaining elements of The Walking Dead has always been its bad guys. Once the initial thrills of zombies were gone, the show has pitted its heroes against jerks, thugs, the Governor, the cannibals of Terminus, the Wolves, Negan and the Saviors, and the Whisperers. Although Negan’s group was an…Read more...

I got to admit, my dinosaur 64GB iPhone XS is pretty good on storage. In fact, it almost never fills up (and when it does it’s often because I’ve saved too many TikTok videos). Yet, Apple seems to believe that folks need more, more, and more space—for real, what do you respectable people put in there—and it apparently…Read more...

A modern interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, from the showrunners/producers of Agent Carter and starring David and Georgia Tennant? Don’t mind if I do!

Have five minutes and want to make your day significantly more awesome? Then come spend it watching Iron Maiden’s new music video for the song “Stratego,” released by Adult Swim last Wednesday.

Salesforce made one of the biggest moves in the tech industry in light of a highly restrictive Texas abortion law on Friday. In a message to employees on Slack, the company said it would help them and their immediate families relocate if they are worried about access to reproductive healthcare in their state.Read more...

Apple has a message for iPhone users with high-power motorcycles, mopeds, and scooters: Don’t attach your phone to them you value your camera.Read more...

There’s not a lot that surprises me about Batman comics anymore, but I did not expect to see the formerly dead, tortured soul/antihero Jason Todd lunge after a cookie. It’s only one of the many delightful scenes in DC Comics’ first collaboration with the Korean digital comics platform Webtoon, Batman: Wayne Family…Read more...

Sure, we love Mulder and Scully—as well as Skinner and even that pesky Cigarette Smoking Man. And while a good portion of The X-Files’ magic came from the interactions between its regular cast members, the sci-fi series’ prolific use of guest stars helped elevate its storytelling, particularly in its wonderful …Read more...

Those kids today. Always on their phones! It seems like they’ve stopped talking to each other except through Instagram and TikTok and the Whozit and Whatevers. But what if. instead of phones, their social lives were conducted through adorable robots called B-Bots?Read more...

In general, I can be on the fence about Instagram. The pressure to be “perfect” for the ‘gram can make me roll my eyes or bore me (though yes, I have succumbed to this pressure before, I’m only human). One thing Instagram knows is that I like is cats, which frequently leads me to ask myself: Why aren’t there more cats…Read more...

At this point, Florida’s ban on mask mandates in public schools can be compared to Katy Perry’s famous song, “Hot N Cold.” Sometimes it’s a yes, sometimes it’s a no.Read more...

Ravenloft and Dragonlance, two of D&D’s most iconic classic settings, wouldn’t exist without the work of husband-and-wife team Tracy and Laura Hickman. Now, the Hickmans are setting their sights on a new world for a tabletop roleplaying setting—and while it’s not explicitly part of D&D, it’s leveraging the latest…Read more...

While we’re thrilled to get any sneak peeks at what’s to come on our beloved Star Trek: Lower Decks, we’re also a little dismayed to be receiving a mid-season trailer right about now... since it’s making us realize that the show’s excellent second season will soon be nearing its home stretch. However! As this clip…Read more...

After the near $100 million opening of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the Walt Disney Company just made a major statement about the future of its films. First, all of the company’s remaining 2021 releases, including Eternals and The King’s Man, will play only in theaters for 45 days. In addition, the…Read more...

In an attempt to fight a recent deluge of hateful and bigoted content on its platform, Twitch has opted for a new tactic in its war on persistent trolls: taking them to court.

Last week, the trial against Backpage began, commencing a long-awaited battle over either a massive criminal conspiracy or the fate of free speech online—all ultimately sideswiping sex workers who depended on the site. Prosecutors allege that the site facilitated sex work and sex trafficking; the founders have branded…Read more...

What’s an employer to do if they found out they had underpaid workers by millions of dollars what they were legally owed? If they had a conscience—or at least a fear of consequences—they could fess up and give them back pay owed. Google instead shrugged and dragged its feet on a remedy when it discovered that it had…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things good, posable, and plastic. This week: Hasbro puts a stake in a wild Transformers crossover, the latest Skywalker lightsaber gets a killer new replica, and Lego returns to the Bale Batman era. Check it out!