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Will Apple be the next front in the tech labor movement? In tandem with an informal pay transparency survey, a group of employees posted a website on Monday for #AppleToo, an initiative devoted to collecting stories from Apple workers, from retail to corporate, and address an alleged pattern of discrimination.

A research team based at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington is working to certify that mysterious uranium cubes in American laboratories were once part of Nazi Germany’s efforts to build a successful nuclear program. Using nuclear forensics, the team might be getting closer to determining the…Read more...

Although she’s only played a small role in the Star Wars: The High Republic saga so far, we know a few things about the Nihil’s Tempest Runner Lourna Dee. She’s incredibly opportunistic, preferring to only engage in fights she’s confident she can win. She’s cruel to the point of sadism. She’s also incredibly…Read more...

New research finds that abortions prescribed over the phone or online can be safe and effective. The study found that a large majority of women who received medication abortions in California last year via telehealth service required no follow-up medical care, and no major adverse events were reported. The findings…Read more...

The image above is beautiful, but looks can be deceptive. It shows there’s way too much ice is melting in Greenland, and we should all be concerned.Read more...

Elon Musk announced via a series of tweets (of course) that SpaceX has shipped 100,000 terminals for its Starlink satellite internet service in 14 countries, with the aim to “serve Earth soon.” That implies the service has gained an additional 10,000 users in less than a month—and fully global service hasn’t even…Read more...

Did you hear that footage from that new Tom Holland movie screened recently? No, not Spider-Man: No Way Home. (Though the Marvel film did, finally, get a trailer yesterday). We’re talking about Uncharted, that other major franchise the actor is fronting for Sony Pictures. The PlayStation video game has had a long,…Read more...

Marlon Wayans is teaming up with Cry Wolf’s Jeff Wadlow for a new Netflix horror project. Death Dealer strikes in even more footage from Marvel’s Shang-Chi. Motherland: Fort Salem will return for a third and final season. Plus, what’s coming on The Walking Dead, and when to expect the final episodes of Attack on Titan…Read more...

We are living through a time unprecedented in human history. The world is at once more connected than ever and also falling apart in ways almost beyond comprehension.

Over the past few years, Google has been transitioning its Nest smart home brand away from a stand-alone company and bringing it into the Google fold. Now you can mix and match smart displays and other gadgets that connect to the Google Assistant as you see fit. This is convenient, to be sure, but it also has some…Read more...

Since man first struck a rock with a slightly smaller rock, technology has ostensibly served to improve our lives. Fast forward a few million years, and our dweeby $4,000 fridges with “superior organizational storage” will update us on the status of the robot vacuum (on or off). Wait, do I need a toilet to analyze my…Read more...

At long last, Peloton’s smaller and cheaper treadmill has an official launch date. The treadmill was supposed to arrive in late May, but the company decided to postpone the Tread’s launch following a voluntary recall. Starting Aug. 30, customers in the U.S., Canada, and the UK can fork over $2,495 for the newest…Read more...

Film censors in Hong Kong have proposed new rules that would include steep fines and up to three years in prison for screening movies that are banned, according to a new report from the Hong Kong Standard. The proposal comes as political leaders in China seek to curtail freedoms in Hong Kong and Beijing makes a region…Read more...

Hawaii Gov. David Ige is asking tourists to stay home and delay any vacation plans in the region until at least November as the state’s covid-19 case numbers soar. Hawaii is averaging about 650 new cases a day, a troubling uptick from a month ago when the state was averaging just 138 cases per day.

Screenshots of two rambling social media posts—one from Facebook, one from Instagram—form the sum total of the evidence police used last summer to justify an aerial surveillance operation in North California, records obtained by the nonprofit transparency group Property of the People and reporting by the Guardian…Read more...

His mentor is dead, his second mentor betrayed him, his identity was exposed, and the shock-jock to end all shock-jocks is on his back. Peter Parker has a tough time ahead of him in that tangled web his life has weaved. Well, turns out it’s about to get a whole lot messier. Sony and Marvel have just dropped the first…Read more...

New research shows that misconfigurations of a widely used web tool have led to the leaking of tens of millions of data records.Read more...

As any folk horror fan who revels in the ways of ancient magic, long-forgotten traditions, and strange rituals involving twigs and animal masks can attest, these stories often start the same way, with an outsider entering a community that immediately lets them know how not-welcome they are. So begins Australia’s …Read more...

After Netflix found it had a new hit on its hands with the grim fantasy of The Witcher in late 2019, work quickly began on plans to expand the series beyond the realm of simply getting another season of Henry Cavill fighting monsters. The first step into that wider world, Nightmare of the Wolf, hit the streamer today,…Read more...

“Sir! Direct hit! The balloon’s canvas has been ruptured and is falling to the Earth from a height of approximately 18 kilometers. They will hit the ground in approximately one minute—unless the gentlemen have jetpacks on board, there’s no chance they’ll survive the impact.”Read more...

Researchers warn that the next major pandemic may not be too far away. In a new paper out Monday, they estimate that a pandemic as deadly as covid-19 is expected to arrive within the next six decades, while a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 Spanish flu could be expected to recur every 400 years. They also argue that…Read more...

It looks like the hacker behind Poly Network’s historic heist has had a change of heart. The crypto platform confirmed in a company blog post on Monday that the anonymous hacker (or hackers) who successfully stole roughly $610 million in crypto assets from its platform had finally surrendered the final tranche of…Read more...

If you didn’t know the character or see the logo, you might not immediately realize Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, if you look closely you can see a few cameos in some of the trailers—but beyond that, these are new characters and new stories that…Read more...

At long last, Hulu is offering support for high-dynamic range streaming.Read more...

As many fret about Apple’s new plans to scan iPhones for signs of child abuse material, the company has confirmed that it already scans users’ iCloud Mail accounts for such images—and has done so for years.Read more...

The Walking Dead’s Negan hasn’t always made the right decisions; for instance, there was the time he ruled as a bloodthirsty, post-apocalyptic tyrant and murdered dozens of people. Since then, though, he’s been trying to become a better person... emphasis on the word trying, as last night’s season 11 premiere showed.…Read more...

The second episode of What If imagined a universe in which T’Challa never grew up to become Wakanda’s Black Panther because he was abducted by aliens as a child. T’Challa’s journey to becoming the Star-Lord brings him into the lives of countless people from throughout the galaxy, and his mere presence has a profound…Read more...

Scientists at NASA were pretty excited in early August when the Perseverance rover indicated that it had drilled its first sample of Martian rock. But as it turned out, the sample tube was empty, and the Perseverance team began a remote investigation to solve the mystery of the disappearing rock.

Wildfires and declining water levels at reservoirs have threatened California’s power supply at various points this summer. Desperate to avoid blackouts amid the compounding crisis, California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing the construction of five “temporary” gas-fueled plants in the coming months.Read more...

Facebook again weaseled around antitrust scrutiny in its $400 million Giphy acquisition, according to a Bloomberg report citing two sources with knowledge of the matter. If history is any indicator, Facebook can and will do whatever it wants.

The trailer for The Colony made us think of Children of Men crash-landing into Waterworld. It showed us an Earth decimated by climate change that’s been mostly abandoned by humanity—but where, incredibly, future generations have continued to be born. Today io9 has an exclusive clip from the movie that shows just how…Read more...

Jeff Bezos might have felt triumphant when he rocketed toward the edge of space last month, but apparently the same can’t be said about other employees at Blue Origin. On Friday, CNBC was first to report that over a dozen engineers had left Bezos’s company in recent weeks, with some departing for high-ranking roles at…Read more...

Greece has suffered through a summer of hellish heat. Now, experts want to give heat waves names and rankings like the ones assigned to hurricanes and tropical storms.

Apple just released a refreshed M1 Mac Mini last November, but it looks like we might see a higher-end version featuring the rumors M1X chip sometime this fall.Read more...

Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a blend of opposites: otherworldly martial arts grounded by slacker humor. From fast-paced split kicks to lyrical dance-fights, the film deserves to be seen on the big screen. But of course, even if you didn’t feel it was safe to do so, that’s the only way you can…Read more...

After lying dormant for over half a year, the world’s second largest iceberg has finally sprung to life—and it narrowly avoided a collision that could have resulted in an even larger iceberg.

At least 22 people have died and more than 20 are missing in Tennessee after torrential, record-breaking rain pounded the state this weekend, causing massive floods through rural towns that left a wake of destruction. The extreme rainfall—and the state’s recent history of deadly floods—are consistent with what we can…Read more...

It was more than a year ago when Disney Parks announced its Splash Mountain theme park attraction would be rethemed around the 2009 movie The Princess and the Frog, replacing the problematic Song of the South. Now, we’ve finally got a few details about what’s in store.

A giant tortoise on an island in the Seychelles recently demonstrated that slow and steady can indeed win the race, after it stalked a young bird and swallowed it whole. New research describing the behavior was published today in Current Biology and includes footage of the encounter.

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration gave its full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine, which has until now been covered under an emergency use authorization. It’s now the first of its kind approved in the U.S.—a decision that public health experts say could improve its acceptance among those…Read more...

Finally answering the longstanding question, “why on earth would I want a 3D printer?,” Brandon Withrow, who goes by ‘buba447' on Reddit, shared a video of what might be the single greatest reason to learn how to use a 3D printer and a Raspberry Pi: a tiny replica of the Simpsons’ living room TV that plays episodes of …Read more...

Tony Leung talks about joining the MCU in Shang-Chi. The animated Addams Family sequel is getting a simultaneous home release. Get a look at R.L. Stine and Marc Webb’s new Disney+ series. Plus, what’s coming on Legends of Tomorrow. Spoilers get!

We’ve had teases, we’ve had casting, we’ve even had Yoko Kanno. But now, after a long, long wait, we’ve got our first look at the crew of the Bebop for Netflix’s live-action take on the seminal Shinichirō Watanabe anime, ahead of its release this November. And yes, John Cho looks incredible as Spike Spiegel.Read more...

Most of your favorite space movies feature something going wrong. A malfunction. An invasion. It’s not just “Houston, we have a problem,” there’s always a problem. But that’s the movies. It’s fiction. In reality, while space is obviously a deadly place, being there isn’t always overly dramatic and intense. It can be…Read more...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered 18 aircraft from U.S. airlines be delivered to the Department of Defense to help with the effort to evacuate Americans and Afghan refugees from Afghanistan according to a press release last Sunday. The airplanes will not be sent to Kabul, but instead be used to ferry…Read more...

AMC has touted tonight’s premiere of The Walking Dead as “The Beginning of the End.” Technically, that’s true…but that’s about it. It’s not a bad episode of TWD, just a very middle-of-the-road one. After 10 seasons of wildly veering over that metaphorical, zombie-filled highway, that’s fine with me.

The U.S. State Department was purportedly the victim of a serious cyber attack in recent weeks, according to a Fox News report published on Saturday. The extent of breach and when it was discovered are currently unknown.

Heavy rains, storm surges, and dangerous winds from Tropical Storm Henri have left more than 120,000 people without power across the Northeast. After touching down in Rhode Island early Sunday afternoon, the storm is weakening quickly as it moves northwest, but the National Hurricane Center warns that heavy rains and…Read more...

It seems that the days of drinking bleach to treat or prevent covid-19, a dangerous and bogus practice promoted by former President Donald Trump, are not over. However, this time the hot faux cure on the market is a drug called ivermectin, which is used in animals to treat heartworm disease and internal and external…Read more...

The Dungeons & Dragons movie has wrapped production!