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SpaceX employees received a nightmare email over the holiday weekend from CEO Elon Musk, warning them of a brewing crisis with its Raptor engine production that, if unsolved, could result in the company’s bankruptcy. The email, obtained by SpaceExplored, CNBC, and The Verge, urged employees to work over the weekend in…Read more...

Movies that connect with audiences in different ways are always the biggest hits and The Matrix is the perfect example. On the surface, it’s got plenty of action, romance, and sci-fi mythology, as well as a dense, entertaining story. For most movies, that would would be enough—but The Matrix goes deeper. A lot deeper.…Read more...

As part of Twitter’s never-ending attempt to thwart the doxxers and trolls that seem to lurk in every corner of its platform, the company overhauled its private information policies on Monday to explicitly ban sharing pictures or videos of private individuals without their consent.Read more...

Graphics cards are practically impossible to purchase these days due to the ongoing chip shortage, but that’s not stopping Nvidia. The company reportedly plans to announce its GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs sometime next year.

For the better part of two decades, Google has required nearly all of its employees to sign agreements with the instructions “don’t be evil,” without ever really bothering to elaborate on what evil actually means. Now, three former software engineers are suing the company to see just how seriously it takes this…Read more...

Welcome back to io9's the 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...

The calendar can’t turn to December fast enough for the Pacific Northwest—but even that offers little promise of respite. Residents there have been blitzed by a series of November storms that have driven widespread flooding and destruction.Read more...

An analysis by Carbon Switch released on Giving Tuesday shows that donations to environmental groups is concentrated mostly at just a couple of big nonprofits, most of which work in land conservation. It’s understandable: climate has often been pigeonholed as an environmental issue. And what are known as the “big…Read more...

Through a standard telescope, the nearby galaxy NGC 7727 looks like a gossamer tumbleweed drifting in the night sky. But within it are two supermassive black holes beginning a dance that will end with their violent merger. As a team of astronomers recently found, these objects are closer to Earth than any other…Read more...

Continuing the bizarre streaming-platforms-now-do-free-mobile-gaming tradition recently pioneered by Netflix, HBO announced on Monday that it is partnering with Glow Up Games, a company founded by women of color, to produce a free mobile offering based on the original hit series Insecure.Read more...

The spice must flow, Morty, for he is Padishah Rick now.

HP printer owners should download the latest firmware to protect their devices from critical security flaws.

We all have a lot in common with best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin. We’re all carbon-based lifeforms. None of us have published a book titled The Winds of Winter, although all of us would like it to be out ASAP. And it turns out all of us are bummed out about how HBO’s TV adaptation of…Read more...

When the third Matrix film, Revolutions, released in 2003, the series’ time flourishing at the box office was ostensibly done. As you well know, nothing’s ever really gone in the age of blockbuster franchise cinema, and now, we’re a month away from a fourth Matrix movie. But the latest sequel was never actually the…Read more...

Best known for laptops and PC gear, Asus’ latest creation takes the company in a completely different direction. The PureGo PD100 is a kitchen accessory that dives into a sink full of water and produce to intelligently determine when pesticides have been adequately cleaned off and fruits and veggies, making them safe…Read more...

The majority of money given to environmental charities goes to just a handful of organizations, according to a new report. And, the analysis finds, the nonprofits and issues they champion raking in the biggest donor dollars aren’t necessarily focused on some of the most crucial ways to lower carbon emissions.Read more...

A new look at Hocus Pocus 2 teases the Sanderson sisters’ return. There could be more to come from the world of Malignant. Jessica Henwick hypes up Carrie Anne-Moss’ return to Matrix Resurrections. Plus, what’s coming on 4400, and Kathryn Hahn reacts to her Wandavision spinoff. Spoilers now!

Mark Zuckeberg’s metaverse is still just a dream inside his head. But one animator took the liberty of creating a version of Facebook’s metaverse that probably wouldn’t be approved by the social media giant.Read more...

The Chucky TV series is a hit—and the diabolical doll will return for a second season to continue his overall-clad reign of terror.Read more...

Heartwarming as Peanuts stories tend to be, Apple TV+’s upcoming For Auld Lang Syne animated special tells a story about just how stressful and emotionally exhausting the holiday season often ends up being. Though Lucy Van Pelt prides herself on doling out mental health advice to her friends, Auld Lang Syne finds her…Read more...

Bessemer, Alabama warehouse workers will get a second shot at a union election, the National Labor Relations Board has decided. It found that Amazon shot itself in the foot by interfering with the election, even beyond its considerable leverage to influence workers.

A new report from Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff alleges that the US hasn’t been super helpful to Spain as it attempts to investigate whether a local security firm spied on Julian Assange at the behest of the CIA.

Star Wars producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are hard at work prepping their next streaming show, Ahsoka, and have added a relatively unknown actress to the cast in a mystery part. Deadline reports that Ukranian actress Ivanna Sakhno, who previously appeared in Pacific Rim Uprising and the High Fidelity TV show,…Read more...

Twitter co-founder and outgoing CEO Jack Dorsey threw in the towel earlier this week, announcing he’d immediately be succeeded by former Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal. Dorsey was scant on details explaining his departure, noting only that he believed it was time for the company to move beyond its founders. News of…Read more...

After dominating the tabletop actual play realm, branching out into the world of tabletop settings themselves, and now turning into a transmedia empire with an animated adventure, Critical Role is ready to enter the world of original fiction this week. A new Marieke Nijkamp novel is delving deep into the past of two…Read more...

There are tons of movies about humans trying to negotiate the post-apocalypse. Less common are films about people counting down until the end of the world—though they certainly exist, with approaches as varied as Roland Emmerich’s big, loud disaster flick 2012 and Lars von Trier’s pensive, nihilistic Melancholia.…Read more...

Last week, a team of physicists working in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the facility’s first-ever detection of neutrinos, which are some of the smallest, most weakly interacting particles yet proven to exist.Read more...

Police in 20 separate countries arrested 1,003 suspects as part of a sweeping crackdown on digital financial crime from June 2021 to September, including suspected operators of a type of scam called “business email compromise” (BEC), according to Interpol.Read more...

If you try to picture the CEO of a given tech company year by year, there are usually a few distinctive features that stay pretty static. Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive hairline has kept on being aggressive, Jeff Bezos has kept on being bald, and Elon Musk has kept on being a moleman.Read more...

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has a lot of nerdy irons in the proverbial cinematic fire. He recently starred as Doctor Manhattan in HBO’s wonderful Watchmen TV series, had the lead role in the revival of the horror movie Candyman, will be playing a new incarnation of Morpheus in The Matrix Resurrections, and returning to the…Read more...

Pondering being trapped on a desert island with only an Oasis cover band for entertainment may sound like a fun hypothetical to weigh over a pint of beer. But that was essentially the fate for 60 or so pubgoers at the Tan Hill Inn.Read more...

With just six episodes this season, Doctor Who has had to deal with a bit more chaos than usual when pushing about the proverbial chess pieces of its central mysteries. Who are Swarm and Azure? What is the Flux? Who, what, why, and how are Division? But as its penultimate episode cracks open some of those mysteries, …Read more...

A married couple that had tested positive for COVID-19 was apprehended by Dutch police this weekend after they managed to sneak out of the local quarantine hotel. According to a local report from Dutch newspaper Het Parool, the pair were arrested onboard just moments before their plane was set to head to Spain from…Read more...

Samsung is expected to reveal the flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra in early 2022, but you don’t have to wait any longer to get a glimpse of its design. Based on a recent leak, the Galaxy S22 Ultra will look similar to its predecessor, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, but with a few notable changes that should excite Galaxy Note owners.

AMC is going all-in on the blockchain. Earlier this month, the movie theater chain announced it would begin accepting payments in cryptocurrency, and now it’s giving out NFTs as ticket pre-orders freebies for the new Spider-Man movie.Read more...

Canada’s government-sanctioned maple syrup cartel has a message for the world: Never fear, there will be syrup.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told all employees in an email not to “sprint like crazy” to deliver cars, pointing out that although the company expends great effort, rushing and spending loads of money actually does not deliver more cars.Read more...

Australia is trying to make it harder to be an internet troll, but at what cost?Read more...

There’ve been a lot of things happening in the pages of My Hero Academia over the last year. The war between the heroes and villains saw a fairly big change to its larger world that left Deku and the rest of the 1-A kids as basically the last real hope for Japan in the fight against All for One and Tomura Shigaraki.…Read more...

When Train to Busan hit theaters in 2016, it took off in the way several high profile projects from South Korea tend to do these days. With a passionate fanbase that both wants more from that universe, but very much not in the mood for a remake, it’s clear that the only way to appease those fans is a with a follow up.…Read more...

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is such an amazingly weird anime that it’s hard to not root for it. It’s also got a history of having pretty good music, and that trend thankfully continues with the upcoming sixth season, Stone Ocean. Ahead of its release later in the week, Warner Bros. Japan released the anime’s CG opening.

The last few years have seen a successful streak of films and shows based on video games, primarily from Netflix. With future series based on sci-fi franchises Mass Effect and Halo in the works, plus ones based on various Ubisoft properties like Assassin’s Creed, gamers are in no shortage of seeing some of their…Read more...

The Indian government didn’t mince words in a recent message to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Get a license before offering satellite internet services in the country.Read more...

If you got in your car and suddenly found that Spotify’s Car View feature had mysteriously disappeared, I’m sorry to say that no, it’s not a bug. Spotify actually announced—although “whispered” would be more accurate—that it was killing Car View more than a month ago, but it looks like it hadn’t gotten to actually…Read more...

When people worry about robots coming to take their jobs, I don’t think “poet” is what they had in mind. Enter Ai-Da, a highly realistic, AI-driven robot firmly rooted in the uncanny valley that can paint, draw, sculpt, and, yes, write its own poetry.Read more...

The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher is almost upon us, and that means more of Henry Cavill’s brooding (and not quite eternally grunting) Geralt of Rivia and his new, youthful charge Ciri. With a promise of more monsters to meet the business end of a steel or silver sword, a clip for the new season sees the…Read more...

Authorities worldwide have started taking steps to contain the spread of the new coronavirus variant Omicron as the holiday season enters full swing. On Friday, the World Health Organization recognized the heavily mutated coronavirus variant, which was first identified in South Africa, as a “variant of concern” due to…Read more...

We’re now a month away from The Book of Boba Fett, the first spinoff to The Mandalorian that sees the return of Temuera Morrison’s helmeted bounty hunter. With Jabba dead and a power vacuum in the galaxy’s crime underworld, the green-armored Mandalorian’s decided to make a name for himself now that he’s back from the…Read more...

Perhaps you decided to spend the holiday weekend watching some good old fashioned superhero violence in the form of last year’s pretty good (and perhaps poorly named) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on HBO Max. If you’re one such person, you were greeted with a card saying that the…Read more...

In the buildup to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, it seemed like Zendaya sure was gonna be in more of it than she actually was. The trailers implied that her character Chani would be more than a girl who haunts—or graces, depending on your POV—the dreams of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, while the actual film itself…Read more...