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A proposed plan to cull upwards of 10,000 feral horses, while still retaining a smaller population, won’t prevent ongoing damage to a sensitive Australian park, according to a concerned group of scientists.Read more...

Upon finishing Dragons of Winter Night, the second book in Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s beloved first Dragonlance series, I realized I had a problem: I didn’t know what it was about. Or rather, I don’t know what it isn’t about. So many characters are added, so many new plots are begun, and giant detours are taken…Read more...

Last month, engineering student Ken Pillonel showed off the world’s first iPhone with a USB-C port, and now Pillonel has returned to reveal how he did it while also putting his custom USB-C iPhone up for auction.Read more...

A lot of things are about to change on Doctor Who, and not just in front of the camera, as Jodie Whittaker’s incarnation of the Time Lord prepares to end her run in explosive style as Flux begins. Behind the camera, the impending return of former showrunner Russell T. Davies is going to bring about an interesting…Read more...

Starting today, the Federal Trade Commission will start doing something Amazon failed to do for around 140,000 of its Flex delivery drivers: pay them their tips.Read more...

More than a year after the discovery of what’s the largest gasoline spill in the U.S. in decades, the owners of a massive pipeline are being taken to court. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Colonial Pipeline, which owns the eponymous pipeline, alleging…Read more...

As a general rule, if you want to make a vehicle more fuel-efficient, you do everything you can to make it lighter. For planes, that usually involves using space-age composites to build the fuselage and wings, but one YouTuber has found a very unorthodox material for a simple glider’s wings: soap and water.Read more...

What if, instead of going through life in the Matrix as the coolest version of you, you were a Funko Pop avatar instead? Probably a little less flexible for those bullet-time moves. Regardless, that’s the existence realized today as Funko has rolled out its first figures to celebrate the release of Lana Wachowski’s…Read more...

Get to know the Eternals (again) as Marvel dumps a few more guides to its new heroes. The Book of Boba Fett confirms an intriguing new guest star. Geralt and Ciri trade swords in a new image from The Witcher season two. Plus, what’s next on La Brea and Stargirl. Spoilers, away!

Peloton’s new treadmill is finally available to buy, but you’d be forgiven for being confused. Wasn’t Peloton’s treadmill recalled due to safety issues? Isn’t it super expensive to be having so many problems? Yes and yes, but let’s back up a second to clarify.Read more...

Now that you’ve snagged a shiny new Google Pixel 6 or Google Pixel 6 Pro, it’s time to figure out how to make the most of it. These new flagship phones come packed with new features from Google, especially in the AI and camera departments. Here are some tips and tricks that new Pixel 6 owners should start using ASAP.

Russia reported another daily record for deaths from covid-19 on Wednesday, with 1,189 people succumbing to the disease, according to a new report from the Moscow Times. The country also saw 40,443 new covid-19 cases over the 24-hour reporting period, just shy of the daily record seen a few days ago when 40,993 new…Read more...

For those interested in exercising more but worried about their knees, a new study from researchers in the UK this week might offer some reassurance. The research, a review of existing evidence, found no link between exercise and a greater risk of knee osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis to plague the…Read more...

Zillow is getting out of the house-flipping business and will fire a large percentage of its staff, after admitting that it greatly overestimated its ability to wrangle “the unpredictability in forecasting home prices.”Read more...

Remember almost 10 years ago when there were rumblings that Zack Snyder was pitching a Star Wars movie? Obviously, that project never happened. But the general idea behind that film—minus the mythology of a galaxy far, far, away—is still happening, and it just added its first star.Read more...

Yesterday Google pushed out a November security patch for its Pixel phones, but notably the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL did not get the update.Read more...

Researchers in the UK and affiliated with the World Health Organization are sounding the alarm over a common bacteria that can seriously harm pregnant people and their babies. In a new report released this week, the group estimates that infections caused by group B streptococcus were linked to 46,000 stillbirths,…Read more...

Rather than cutting to multiple flashbacks or clips from the original Candyman in order to connect its new story to the old lore, Nia DaCosta’s recent horror feature instead told the story entirely through haunting shadow puppetry that introduced a whole host of ghoulish figures complicating the dark lore. io9 has an…Read more...

A Republican representative from Indiana who blamed Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol nonetheless bought somewhere between $1,001 and $15,000 in stock in Trump’s new media and tech venture, according to Insider.

If you’re an Android user and a Netflix subscriber, your login credentials now officially double as a pass to access five new games the streaming platform began rolling out this week as part of its quest to find and keep new subscribers.Read more...

Good Omens has just entered production of its second season in Merry Olde Scotland, but that’s not the only news about the surprise return of the wildly popular Amazon Prime series. The first picture has also arrived of stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant as the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley, respectively.…Read more...

In a move that can only signal good things to come, the Federal Election Commission has apparently ruled that it’s totally cool for foreign donors to financially contribute to U.S. ballot initiatives. The news, which was initially reported by Axios, could mean that America’s domestic policy is now basically up for…Read more...

One of the key leaders of the growing #AppleToo movement has filed a charge with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, claiming Apple fired her in retaliation for organizing, according to documents seen by Reuters. The charge brought by former Apple Maps program manager Janneke Parrish swells the total count of…Read more...

By modifying a well-known climate model and applying it to the fictional world of Arrakis, a group of scientists has shown that Frank Herbert’s depiction of a desert planet in the book series Dune was surprisingly apt, though with some surprising differences.

On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement. According to a new blog post from the platform’s shiny new parent company, Meta, the big blue app will be shuttering its facial recognition systems “over the coming weeks.”Read more...

Eternals is getting mixed reviews, but I’m reasonably confident that comedian Kumail Nanjiani will be one of the movie’s biggest highlights as Kingo, the immortal superhero with the finger guns. Thanks to this new clip from the movie, in which Sersi, Ikaris, and Sprite visit the Bollywood star on the set of his newest…Read more...

Each passing day is allegedly bringing us closer to the virtual reality cosmopolis known as the metaverse. The bad news is that prominent voices in tech are increasingly referencing the “virtual world created by an evil monopolist” in the Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash in the same breath they’re using to talk about…Read more...

Modding the 18-year-old Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP with upgrades like a better screen and bigger battery is relatively painless. But modding the GBA SP so that it functions as a dedicated 16-bit Switch with Joy-Con and TV-out support? That’s a monumental challenge that Macho Nacho Productions somehow made look easy.Read more...

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Grand Admiral Thrawn may not yet be Grand Admiral in Timothy Zahn’s latest trilogy of novels featuring his most iconic Star Wars creation, but even before his time in the Empire, it’s clear that Thrawn has always had a knack for guiding himself through the most dangerous strategies to get what he wants—and his latest…Read more...

The Hubble Space Telescope has entered into a protective safe mode, in what is now an upsettingly regular occurrence. Mission team members have yet to identify the source of the latest issue.

After Tim Cook told CNBC that the chip crunch likely cost Apple around $6 billion in lost sales, it appears Apple has started taking more drastic measures in order to maintain strong production of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro.Read more...

Over the weekend, world leaders of the G20 tossed a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain to wish for good luck combatting climate change. By Monday, they were in Glasgow giving speeches as United Nations climate talks opened.Read more...

In possibly the biggest blow to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta rollout yet (and there have been several), the company has been forced to issue a recall affecting over 11,700 vehicles equipped with the software.Read more...

Halloween is over, which means it’s instantly time for Christmas—and not just in shopping malls. Netflix has also manifested a sudden case of the holiday spirit, evidenced by this new trailer for its latest original film, which looks like it’s angling to be a perennial holiday classic. It’s called A Boy Called…Read more...

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Incal could be coming to the big screen. Marvel’s Eternals director Chloé Zhao teases her take on Dracula. Get a look at Legends of Tomorrow’s Beebo themed holiday special. Plus, new Ghostbusters: Afterlife footage, and what’s next on Child’s Play. Spoilers now!Read more...

Meteorological winter is less than a month away, but you wouldn’t know it in the United Arab Emirates. The country hit 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) to start the week, a November record. Qatar, Oman, and Iran also reportedly approached national records.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage is in theaters now, Spider-Man: No Way Home is in theaters next month, and after that? It’s vampire time. Morbius is the next film in Sony’s Marvel Spider-Man universe and it hits theaters on January 28. Today, a brand new trailer has been released which dives deeper into the story with…Read more...

The pandemic was a major turning point for connected home fitness, and for good reason. However, one of the biggest hurdles for consumers was cost: There are $4,000 treadmills, $2,000 bikes, and $3,000 home gyms, not to mention monthly subscription costs and the amount of space these gadgets can take up in the home.…Read more...

Google packed the Pixel 6 with a ton of new features, starting with a custom-built processor called Tensor, but perhaps an even bigger deal is its cameras. The Pixel lineup has always been known for Google’s AI-powered photography featured, and the Pixel 6 gets a serious upgrade.Read more...

Billionaire Elon Musk admitted in a late night tweet his electric car company Tesla hasn’t yet signed a contract with Hertz, despite an announcement by the rental car company on October 25 that it would be buying 100,000 new Teslas. Musk’s tweet seems to contradict Hertz’s purchase announcement last week—or, at the…Read more...

If you have an older MacBook—i.e., anything not running on Apple silicon—and are thinking about updating to macOS Monterey: hold your horses. Updating right now could leave you without a computer for a while.Read more...

Halloween 2021 has come and gone, but a nerdy website’s community of very clever and talented costumers is forever. At least, that’s what we’re saying to ourselves since our little round-up of the coolest costumes from this year’s festivities that io9 readers shared is being posted today, rather than, you know, on…Read more...

It’s long been said by countless people in and around the comic book industry that they should unionize. Finally, in 2021, workers from Image Comics have decided to do just that.Read more...

Seemingly hell-bent on courting controversy in the back half of 2021, Netflix quietly removed two episodes of the spy drama Pine Gap from the Philippines on Monday after the country accused the streaming service of accidentally-maybe-on-purpose depicting a map that legitimizes China’s claims to the South China Sea.

A new study shows that pretty much all of the world’s computer code is vulnerable to a sneaky kind of exploit, the likes of which could (in the worst-case scenario) result in large-scale supply chain attacks.Read more...

The Pixel 6 launch has been relatively smooth so far, but one weird issue has popped up: A handful of reports started showing up on Reddit (via Android Central) shortly after the phone officially went on sale last week claiming that the Pixel 6 Pro’s screen flickers when the phone is turned off, but only when you…Read more...

A new review of existing evidence conducted by researchers in Australia points to a modest but real benefit from using zinc to combat the common cold. The study found that zinc supplementation can likely prevent and shorten the duration of typical respiratory infections. At the same time, there’s much less known…Read more...

Austria’s Klimaticket, the nation’s $3.50 per day, go-anywhere pass to combat climate change, went live this week, CNN reports. The ticket is valid for all publicly and privately operated rail, metro, and bus networks throughout the nation, and with a price tag of $1,265 (€1,095) for an annual pass, the cost works out…Read more...

If you never thought a steam iron—yes, you read that right—could deliver a stellar performance of the iconic Ghostbusters theme song, you’re in for quite a treat this Halloween.