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A man in Thailand’s bong session went disastrously wrong, according to his doctors. In a new case report, they describe how he “completely amputated his penis” using scissors, apparently due to a rare episode of cannabis-induced psychosis. Though the man’s delusional symptoms faded after being admitted to the hospital…Read more...

A social worker shows up to investigate an alleged case of child abuse, only to discover something far more supernatural is to blame. Fortunately for the family, the social worker also happens to be able to see dead people. But at what price? That’s the set-up for They Live in the Grey, a new Shudder Original that…Read more...

Being mocked as “cowards” and “feds” by one of America’s top podcasters wasn’t as devastating a blow as it might’ve first seemed for a Hitler fan club that’s spent nearly half a decade recruiting and training perhaps hundreds of young racist men to spread white nationalist ideals with public displays of hatred and…Read more...

NASA’s ATLAS, a planetary defense system that scans the sky for near-Earth objects, has been upgraded to search the entire night sky—half of it in either hemisphere—once every 24 hours. The surveillance system is vital for tracking objects like asteroids and debris that are on a collision course with Earth.Read more...

Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry may be action movie stars, but the real hero of Moonfall, Roland Emmerich’s newest disaster movie, is played by Game of Thrones’ John Bradley. As good-natured conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman, he keeps Wilson’s disgraced ex-astronaut Brian Harper and Berry’s no-nonsense NASA chief Jo…Read more...

Rumors that Sonos will release its own headphones are heating up again: according to Procotol, the company just acquired T2 Software, a Bluetooth audio startup.

We’re already in a world where there’s enough new Star Trek to fill out half a year of consecutive weekly broadcasts. According to ViacomCBS, well, that just means there’s still another half a year to fit some boldly going into.

There’re ch-ch-ch-changes at ExxonMobil. On Monday, the oil giant announced major shakeups in how it will do business moving forward—and continued its attempts to convince the public that it’s working towards a brighter climate future. The company is relocating offices, restructuring, and touting a new flashy but…Read more...

A massive fire spewing from a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has led local authorities to issue an evacuation order for around 6,500 residents, with officials anxiously fearing the possibility of a massive explosion. That fertilizer plant was filled with around 600 tons of ammonium nitrate which, if…Read more...

Facebook’s long-term stablecoin project, Diem, is finally shutting down. On Monday, an outside investment firm, Silvergate Bank, confirmed it was buying $182 million worth of Diem assets from the tech giant, marking the end of a long-coming—and pretty tumultuous—exit.Read more...

Marvel’s merry mutants have spent the past few years since their excellent new genesis in House and Powers of X largely keeping to themselves on the living island Krakoa. Their interaction with the wider world of Marvel’s heroes has been limited, and when it does happen, it’s strictly on their own terms. That’s…Read more...

If you’re a person who likes barbecue, few things are more disappointing than biting into tough, desiccated brisket. Now, new scientific observations suggest that some spiders might feel the same way about their nuggets of bugs.

Both Haiti and Brazil weathered torrential rains earlier this week. The rain caused floods in the city of Cap-Haitien, killing at least 3 people and displacing thousands of families. In the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the heavy rainfall caused landslides and floods leading to more than 20 deaths and thousands of…Read more...

A covid-19 vaccine for the youngest American children may be here sooner than expected. This week, Pfizer will reportedly apply for an emergency use authorization of their low-dose vaccine for children under five. Should the Food and Drug Administration grant the authorization, the vaccine could be available as a…Read more...

Critics have been buzzing about After Yang, the second film by the acclaimed and mysterious director Kogonada, ever since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last summer. That buzz restarted a week and a half ago, when the movie debuted at Sundance. Thankfully, since we commonfolk will be able to watch the sci-fi…Read more...

Gmail’s current user interface is claustrophobic—icons, tabs, and chat boxes suffocate the screen, drawing your eyes away from your email inbox and often pushing you to leave the page altogether. Google, it seems, is aware of the chaos and is cleaning things up with a new Gmail view designed to make it easier to swap…Read more...

In December 2020, astronomers stumbled upon an object that seemed to be traveling a bit ahead of us in our orbit around the Sun, but they weren’t entirely sure. New observations now confirm this suspicion, revealing the asteroid to be just the second known Earth Trojan.Read more...

(Updated Feb. 1, 2022 at 11:00 AM ET with new details on the storm)

Tesla will have to recall 53,822 of its U.S. vehicles equipped with its Full Self Driving beta over concerns the software may encourage vehicles to engage in rolling stops at intersections. According to the recall, software functionality in FSD in some cases could allow vehicles to travel through intersections at up…Read more...

In just a few short years the smartphone has evolved into a surprisingly capable tool for videographers, but for creators looking to improve the videos they shoot but don’t have the budget to pay for a talented camera operator, Joby is introducing two relatively affordable devices that can help make any video appear…Read more...

Sun-Man the hero has a pretty wild origin story, but Sun-Man the action figure’s origin story is better. After her three-year-old son Menelik told her he couldn’t be a superhero because he was Black, Yla Eason created Sun-Man and the Rulers of the Sun, a group of multi-ethnic heroes whose toys were bestsellers in the…Read more...

Laura Dern, Benedict Cumberbatch and Noah Jupe will get sleepless for Justin Kurzel’s next sci-fi movie. New Book of Boba Fett posters welcome back a familiar face. Plus, American McGee’s riff on Alice in Wonderland is heading to TV, and even more new pictures from The Batman. To me, my spoilers!

Mad about Spotify’s handling of the whole Joe Rogan situation? Want to put your dollars elsewhere but don’t know how to export your well-curated Spotify library to another service? We’ve got you covered.Read more...

Sony acquired Bungie on Monday in yet another colossal acquisition between two gaming giants. While the advantages of owning a triple-A developer with a popular IP would seem obvious, the specifics of the deal have led to questions about Sony’s strategy in the intensifying war against Xbox.

As athletes arrive in China for the Winter Olympics, one burning question has crossed more than a few minds: What will the beds be like this time? Short answer: no cardboard in sight.Read more...

Thanks to Google’s ongoing quest to kill off browser cookies and Apple’s ongoing quest to vanquish its mobile identifiers, folks in the multibillion dollar business of tracking a user’s every move online have been doing their best to well, keep tracking a user’s every move online. While most smaller places in the…Read more...

The story of Warcraft is a story of, well, war. Orcs against humans, Horde against Alliance, time and time again the story of Blizzard’s fantasy saga—told across the classic strategy games and, for the past 18 years, groundbreaking MMORPG World of Warcraft—has turned back to stoking conflict between its two biggest…Read more...

Just when you thought having TV shows based on Star Wars, Marvel, DC, The Lord of the Rings, Halo, and about 50 other major franchises wasn’t enough, one of the biggest and baddest is finally rolling its way into the mix. eOne just announced that Rawson Marshall Thurber, the writer and director behind Netflix’s smash…Read more...

We know for a fact that fracking sucks for people and literally poisons the area where it occurs. So many of us have seen terrifying videos of rivers and other bodies of water on fire, and reports of seemingly healthy people suddenly plagued with headaches, random nosebleeds, and rashes. Now, a new study has linked…Read more...

It’s been over a year since we last saw Luci the demon, Elfo the elf, and Bean the newly crowned Queen of Dreamland on Netflix, and things weren’t looking good. Luci had died and gone to heaven. Elfo had been carried away by angry ogres for blinding their prince. And poor Bean had been dragged off to hell by her evil…Read more...

A New York Police Department officer is reportedly being investigated after Suffolk County prosecutors charged his spouse with allegedly carrying out a $1.5 million scheme to sell fake coronavirus vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers and others looking to dodge work or government mandates.

The E-N-E-M-Y of the people has struck A-G-A-I-N.

Last night we got our first proper extended look at Paramount+’s long-awaited Halo: The Series, the latest in a long line of attempts to bring the Master Chief out of video games and into live-action. But not only is the new show about to be the biggest attempt to do just that, it’s also going to be diving into Halo…Read more...

Computer researchers have discovered a new, experimental way to track you across the internet using information culled from your computer or phone’s graphics processing unit.Read more...

Android Auto has been rumored to be getting a huge overhaul for months, but now we know what Google’s in-car navigation system will look like.

Welcome back to io9's Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most.Read more...

A new mosaic image taken by the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa has revealed nearly 1,000 multi-light-year-long electron strands at the center of the Milky Way. The strands are huge streaks of cosmic ray particles; though they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, researchers never knew there were so many.

Even after it became the highest-grossing film of all time, George Lucas still wasn’t completely satisfied with Star Wars. Sure, the filmmaker obviously was happy with much of what’s on screen, but the visuals and scope he had in his mind in when he made the movie in the 1970s didn’t line up with the final product. He…Read more...

Joe Rogan has an important message for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and any other major artist that’s removed their music from Spotify’s platform in response to his podcast’s habit of hosting well-known antivaxxers: he’s sorry, but not sorry enough to stop doing it.Read more...

If you just downloaded the latest version of macOS, 12.2, keep an eye on your MacBook’s battery life. Furious Apple laptop owners are reporting across various forums and social media platforms (Reddit, Twitter) that their MacBooks are experiencing excessive battery drain while in sleep mode (via MacRumors).

Snowed in? A loather of Valentine’s Day? Feeling sluggish on the doom-laden treadmill of life? Perk up with this robust list of brand-new sci-fi and fantasy books coming out in February. We got Jedi! We got space nuns! We got monsters, slippery royals, thieves, and even a taser-wielding librarian! Read on!Read more...

Being cast as Batman isn’t the same as being cast as most other characters. There’s a never-ending legacy to it. A long and storied tradition. And that’s something the new Batman, Robert Pattinson, not only is aware of, but relishes. Speaking to Total Film Magazine about the March 4 release of The Batman, Pattinson…Read more...

Sony is acquiring Bungie for a reported $3.6 billion in the latest move of what has been a string of blockbuster purchases within the gaming industry.

An international team of scientists says all-female termite colonies from Japan are the result of accidental hybridization, and that their highly robust nature makes them an ecological threat.

Fallout from a devastating tropical storm that hit several countries in southern Africa is building as the death count continues to rise and communities struggle to recover. The death toll from Tropical Storm Ana, which blew through Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi last week, stood at nearly 80 on Monday, while…Read more...

Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s—hundreds of years before the first flight—the polymath sketched a design for an aircraft. Lacking the right materials, da Vinci never built or tested the helicopter-like device, leaving us…Read more...

As convenient as self-checkout machines can be for quickly getting out of a store, they’re also a convenient way to expose yourself to a touchscreen that thousands of others have used. To make the machines more sanitary, some 7-Eleven stores in Japan will be installing floating holographic displays that work without…Read more...

Just like their murderous stars, you can’t keep a venerable horror franchise dead for long. In fact, it’s only been five years since chainsaw-enthusiast Leatherface appeared on screen in 2017's Leatherface, which served as a prequel to the original 1974 film. Now he’s back, and ready to slaughter the real enemy:…Read more...

Every new technology has attracted scam artists throughout history. But the cryptocurrency space is particularly infested with fraud at the moment.

Another familiar face signs up for the Disney+ Santa Clause revival. Get a creepy glimpse at the new adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos. Star Trek: Picard’s showrunner teases the futures not told in season two’s time travel twists. Plus, what’s coming on Resident Alien and more. Spoilers, away!