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Most smart lock makers need to throw some big ‘ol scare quotes around the ‘smart’ branding, because a lock that remains permanently locked when you forget to charge its battery doesn’t actually seem very smart. But soon, that may no longer be a limitation, thanks to a new chip that lets your lock harvest all the power…Read more...

Good news for fans of Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan’s surreal, hilarious, occasionally gruesome sci-fi comedy Solar Opposites: its animated aliens will be back for even more hijinks. At yesterday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, it was announced that the series—which just dropped its third season, and was already…Read more...

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Dan Trachtenberg talks bringing the Predator to life for Prey. The first look at John Wick Chapter 4 is of, well, John Wick. Tim Roth talks returning as Abomination. Plus, good new for Resident Alien, and a new look at the latest season of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Spoilers go!

There’s a date. That date is Sept. 19. That’s when those sitting like royalty at the top of the Ethereum blockchain say they’ll finally move their proof-of-work-based blockchain system over to proof-of-stake. They’ve made promises before and have routinely pushed back deadlines, but now they have a date, and so far,…Read more...

Earlier this week, Lego revealed a perfect plastic brick recreation of the iconic Atari 2600, the first successful home video game console, as a follow-up to its buildable Lego NES from a few years back. The NES helped turn video games from an oversaturated novelty into a billion dollar blockbuster business, but these…Read more...

Did you see that statement from former president Donald Trump going viral on Thursday about President Joe Biden’s covid-19 diagnosis? It included racist phrases like “the China virus,” multiple references to Hercules, and was shared by countless Republican thought leaders—the best and brightest MAGA minds on the…Read more...

Following a hearing a week ago in which the case was made that Donald Trump had personally instigated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last year, the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack kicked off its ninth hearing with a slate of primetime interviews designed to solidify its case against the…Read more...

Based on Robert Jordan’s sprawling, epic fantasy novel series, Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time is stuffed with characters, settings, and dramatic plot threads. And now it’ll get even more space to explore: the series, already renewed for a second season, will return for a third.Read more...

The Wolf pack is back—well, at least in part. We know a few faces are going to be missing from Teen Wolf’s long-in-the-making return, but a new trailer just screened at San Diego Comic-Con made a shocking revelation: at least one star of the show is back from beyond the grave.

Apparently Tesla’s very busy. So busy, the electric vehicle maker can’t be bothered with things like international border crossings. It looks like Tesla now has its very own lane at the U.S.-Mexico border. The company-exclusive thoroughfare was first reported on by Bloomberg News, and confirmed by a representative…Read more...

The X-Men and the rest of mutantkind coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been heavily discussed ever since the ink dried on the Disney/Fox buyout back in 2019. During Comic-Con of that same year, Kevin Feige declared that yes, they and the Fantastic Four would be brought into the fold with Spider-Man, the…Read more...

Hawaii’s volcanic environments contain a rich array of mysterious microbes, new research this week has found. Scientists say that the islands’ lava caves and other structures created by volcanic activity have unique, diverse, and still uncharacterized communities of bacteria living inside them. The findings indicate…Read more...

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Unusually warm temperatures in Northern Greenland last week triggered a huge ice melt, alarming scientists.Read more...

After a very slight title announcement video in April, we haven’t heard much about the new, and long-awaited, Dungeons & Dragons movie. Sure we’re had casting announcements out the wazoo but the plot has been pretty much under wraps. And now? Straight from San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve gotten a trailer.

January 6, 2021 will live in infamy as the day that right-wing protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol building under the false pretense that the 2020 election was stolen from lame duck president Donald Trump. While the investigations into the attack by a House committee started nearly a year ago, they’re continuing to…Read more...

The Mars Express Orbiter recently imaged a canyon system on the Red Planet that is nearly 10 times longer, 20 times wider, and five times deeper than Earth’s Grand Canyon.Read more...

Everybody remembers Neopets, right? The company that lets you create and take care of digital animals has been a mainstay of teen fun since it launched in 1999. Well, I hate to break it to you, but a hacker recently spat on your childhood nostalgia by breaking into the company’s database and stealing data on millions…Read more...

If big business mergers were a game of Pac-Man, where every pellet was a small company and each power pellet was a juicy merger, then tech companies would be playing a perfect game. In this admittedly overstretched metaphor, some U.S. regulators are desperately trying to pull the arcade cabinet’s chord, but it’s not…Read more...

Just as the Hilton Bayfront was set to open its doors to San Diego Comic Con attendees, special guests, and press, the workers at the hotel set up a picket line in front of the hotel. The strike only lasted a few hours, proving once again that collective action, worker solidarity, and excellent timing will often force…Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con can be a very trying experience. So what better way to deal with it than to sever your memory of it from the rest of your well-being? Thankfully you can do just that, hypothetically of course, at Apple TV+’s Severance activation located at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA.Read more...

A Dutch company that claims it can help businesses “turn [their] CO2 into forests” using data, drones, and other tech is responsible for sparking a wildfire in Spain this week that has already burned tens of thousands of acres and caused 2,000 people to evacuate.Read more...

The only thing constant is change, and the same is true for Facebook’s interface. Meta announced a massive overhaul to the social media’s app interface that more closely resembles TikTok (but they’ll probably never say that).

Among Android fans, the Pixel A-series has been a relative hit for Google. Whenever I step into Android spaces, I hear nothing but praise for the company’s mid-range smartphone. I know several “extremely tech-y” people in my life who have lived with the A-series for years, perfectly satisfied with what’s in their…Read more...

The Space Launch System has yet to launch, but NASA is already thinking about future versions of its mega Moon rocket. An upgraded version of the SLS rocket booster is being tested later today, and you can catch the big blast live right here.Read more...

Social media and reality star Kylie Jenner recently posted what she probably thought was a romantic photo of herself and her partner, Travis Scott, embracing. The black-and-white photo on Instagram shows the two celebrities standing between two private jets with the caption, “you wanna take mine or yours?”Read more...

In an announcement that coincides with San Diego Comic Con, Disney+ has announced that Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan will be available to stream on Disney+ starting July 22. The inclusion of these three films comes with a reminder in the press release that parents can adjust their parental controls to help curate…Read more...

With Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon set to roar onto HBO Max in just one short month, the hype machine was on full, fiery blast at San Diego Comic-Con. io9 got a chance to check out “House of the Dragon: The Dragon’s Den,” an activation set up across the street from the convention center. Here’s what we…Read more...

There are good reasons to raise an eyebrow about smartwatches designed for kids, given how much time they already spend starting at screens. But the Mellow Watch, which comes complete with contactless payment abilities, makes a strong case for itself as a tool to help kids not only earn money, but spend it responsibly…Read more...

Alan Grant had the kind of comics career that quickly becomes legendary. He started in the 60s, writing romance comics. Later, he teamed up with John Wagner to work on Tarzan and 2000 AD for IPC comics. After working on numerous horror/sci-fi titles, Grant and Wagner co-wrote Judge Dredd, which Grant worked on…Read more...

U.S. President Joe Biden has officially tested positive for covid-19.Read more...

A powerful rocket is set to blast off from Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on a mission to expand China’s first space station. Similar to previous launches of the Long March 5B, however, the rocket could perform a dangerous uncontrolled reentry on its return.Read more...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, infamous for making grand promises and not following through on them, announced Thursday that the company would be releasing its monstruous Cybertruck in the middle of 2023. Knowing Musk, the date could be something he just threw out on the spot. Yet, it might also be true, in which case, may God…Read more...

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The easiest way to knock a drone that poses a safety or security threat out of the sky is to hinder the wireless communications between the aircraft and those at its controls. But signal jammers that target radio frequency communications are useless against a new type of drone control system that uses laser beams…Read more...

If you happen to be in San Diego this weekend for a certain pop culture jamboree, odds are all that panel-going and toy-stalking will make you work up an appetite... for Dragon Brew? Sure, why not. Quench your thirst with io9 at the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves “Tavern Experience.”

A triumvirate of Senate Democrats wants you to smoke ‘em If you got ‘em. Legally, that is.Read more...

No job is safe in the crypto industry right now as long as the entire market lingers in the current crypto winter.Read more...

A Russian cosmonaut and a European astronaut aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to perform a spacewalk today at 10:00 a.m. ET. The duo will continue the installation of a robotic arm on the station that’s attached to a Russian module. You can catch the action live right here.

Luke Evans join’s Netflix’s new imagining of A Christmas Carol. Jeepers Creepers returns. Plus, another new look at The Munsters, the Quiet Place prequel gets a new release date, and what’s coming on What We Do in the Shadows. Spoilers, away!

There once was a time when conspiracy theories were both relatively harmless and easy to laugh at. Area 51, the Loch Ness Monster, and the faked Moon landing are some of the sillier theories that have invaded pop culture. One location with its own conspiracy lore is the Denver International Airport, which is home to a…Read more...

Experts from some of the nation’s leading civil and digital rights organizations say a report published by Meta last week, presented as an exhaustive review of its impact on human rights, in reality offers “zero” information about its actual impact on the world. The first Meta Human Rights Report should be viewed…Read more...

Microsoft has cut an unspecified number of job openings, mirroring the broader tech sector as the industry braces for a slowdown in the economy, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Cuts affected parts of the company like the Azure cloud division and security software, but Microsoft has declined to put a…Read more...

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Fate has course corrected to give Christina Ricci the role of Harley Quinn, a casting that makes perfect sense for Spotify and DC Comics’ upcoming podcast Harley Quinn & The Joker. The Addams Family and Yellowjackets icon will bring her sweetly creepy and chaotic energy to Harls in a new story that will refocus the…Read more...

It’s an ambitious undertaking to serialize any vampire-related lore for television, and Showtime’s take on Let the Right One In looks up for the challenge. In the first images released exclusively on Entertainment Weekly, we get our first look and details on the upcoming series, which is based on the John Ajvide…Read more...

Unpatched security flaws in a GPS tracking system produced in China could have dire, “life threatening” implications, according to the researchers who discovered them. In short: hackers could track your car in real-time and even disable it while it’s still moving, the research suggests.Read more...

Tesla released its 2022 Q2 earnings Wednesday and the results are mixed: Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker reported $2.3 billion in second-quarter profit, down from a record $3.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022. That’s the company’s first sequential decline in profits in over a year.Read more...

NASA is already shifting attention to its next telescope project: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Yesterday, NASA announced that SpaceX has been contracted to provide launch services for the Roman Space Telescope, which is set to blast off in October 2026.