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Updated documents filed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission suggest SpaceX might actually use its Mechazilla launch tower and chopstick arms to catch a returning Starship booster rocket during the first orbital flight test of its upcoming giant rocket.Read more...

A common mutation in older men may make them more likely to suffer life-threatening heart problems. New research in both mice and men suggests that the loss of the Y chromosome in cells can trigger tissue scarring that can lead to organ failure. The findings may one day allow for better screening of heart and other…Read more...

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In some ways, Microsoft’s latest operating system is just like the ones that came before it: Applications, files and folders can quickly clutter up the local storage space, leaving you with a diminishing number of free gigabytes and a computer that’s sluggish and difficult to get around. When these issues get to be…Read more...

After negotiations that sparked hope in the hearts of Democratic lawmakers on finally reviving some of the President’s climate policy, coal-rich, Maserati-owning West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has brought up a new round of concerns. This time, it’s about the nation’s historic 9.1% inflation rate.Read more...

With The Walking Dead coming to an end in the next few months, it’s natural to wonder if it can sustain. We know about the spinoffs, the potential movie, all that stuff, but will audiences still show up and get excited for the popular zombie franchise? The answer could be yes, if half of it lives up to the teaser…Read more...

In the Blade movies, rich vampires—often dressed in fancy black suits and ties—use blood banks as a kind of front to siphon blood from the poor and desperate. Apparently, reality isn’t too far off from that bleak dystopia.Read more...

Amazon is talking from both sides of its mouth. In Europe, it’s offering concessions to antitrust regulators. In the United States, it’s funding shady lobbyists in hopes of killing antitrust legislation.

A team of astronomers recently detected a fast radio burst that persists about 1,000 times longer than the average burst and has a clear periodic pattern. The radio burst is an eclectic new addition to the running list of mysterious radio signals that emanate from various sources across the universe.

Video games aren’t just a lucrative industry for the companies making the games; now you can earn a good living playing them, too. Making a Twitch stream look as professional as possible is an easy way to attract viewers and sponsorships, which has typically meant investing in gear like Elgato’s Stream Deck. Razer has…Read more...

We briefly got to meet the red-pulsing Gundam and its mysterious pilot from The Witch From Mercury a few months ago, but now with the launch of a new prologue series ahead of the main show’s autumn launch, we have our first proper look at just what the next chapter in the Gundam saga will look like.

As the world shifts to renewable energy, our appetite for copper—a key component for renewable technologies—is rising rapidly. But we may not have the tools to meet the growing need.Read more...

Game of Thrones might have been one of the biggest shows to ever grace a television screen, but it was not without its issues. In addition to fans being disappointed at how the story ended, the show was rightfully criticized about its often unflattering portrayals of women and its lack of diversity, to name just two…Read more...

Mission controllers with the European Space Agency were forced to relocate a science satellite upon detecting a threatening piece of space junk, and they did so with very little time to spare—just 8 hours notice, which isn’t a lot of time when it comes to managing objects in space.Read more...

Ah, Uber. Love it or hate it, the ride-sharing company has revolutionized the way we travel so much so that the word “Uber” is the eponym most people use to refer to any ride they’ve hailed via smartphone, regardless of the actual brand. One thing about Uber, however, is that prices have gone up—point, blank, period.…Read more...

A massive, $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory is coming to Kansas. The Wednesday announcement followed about 45 minutes of closed door discussion between company and state stakeholders, where media were excluded, according to a report from the Topeka Capital-Journal.

French fries and ketchup are a perfect culinary pairing, but have you ever struggled to get enough of the condiment during a dip, given fries are nothing more than a potato stick? Apparently it’s a problem, and one that Heinz has endeavored to solve by way of spoon-shaped french fry.Read more...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake isn’t looking so great.Read more...

Fantasy, especially secondary world fantasy, is a genre about imagination, creating new worlds with different views of everything from culture to economics to the limits of physics, and in many respects, presuming no limitations at all. In that imagining (to paraphrase Max Gladstone), it implies a critique, a…Read more...

General Motors wants to end any Little Red Riding Hood situations for electric vehicle owners, hoping you’ll not have to stray too far from the well-trodden path when taking your EV long-distance.Read more...

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Alex Jones has a lot to say—just not on the topic of white supremacy. In a Connecticut court document filed Wednesday, Jones’ legal team motioned to limit expert testimony on white supremacy and far-right extremism as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Jones in response to his comments surrounding the Sandy Hook…Read more...

The invasion of Ukraine has taken a toll on Russia’s ongoing partnerships with the U.S. and Europe in space. Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced that it’s fully terminating its cooperation with its Russian counterpart on an upcoming mission to Mars, prompting Roscosmos to threaten access to Europe’s new…Read more...

Nintendo’s surprise collaboration with Illumination to bring about a new animated Super Mario movie a few years ago signalled a major sea change for a games publisher that has, for the most part, largely been reticent to bring its gaming icons to other media after an explosion of tie-ins in the ‘90s. Now, that might…Read more...

There’s good news for Sega fans stressing over potentially having to pay steep import fees to bring the recently announced Mega Drive Mini 2 Console to the US. Yesterday, the company revealed the mini console would be coming to North America too on the same day, but will be called the Sega Genesis Mini 2 here.Read more...

Get a look at the return of Esther in the first footage from Orphan: First Kill. Jeff Goldblum joins Olympus in some Kaos casting reshuffling. Plus, what’s coming on Evil and What We Do in the Shadows, and... zombie dogs, anyone? Spoilers go!

Glassy-eyed Twitter addicts on Thursday morning were shocked to find the site down and out of commission.Read more...

I’m going to cut to the chase. The MacBook Air 2022 is, currently, the M2 Apple device to get. Not only does it boast the same internals as the MacBook Pro 13-inch, save for a fan, but it’s also got a redesigned look and feel that makes it stand out from prior Air devices and feel truly modern. Its biggest drawback is…Read more...

A former Central Intelligence Agency computer engineer has been convicted of leaking a large tranche of classified material that revealed some of the agency’s most powerful hacking techniques. Joshua Schulte, 33, worked for an elite software team within the CIA when he stole a cache of documents in 2016 and shared…Read more...

Sprawling vistas, snowcovered mountains, epic battles on horseback, villains made of deadly fire, creatures with large feet taking a leisurely stroll across the field. Yup, this is Lord of the Rings all right.

The defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull isn’t He-Man, at least not today. That honor currently goes to PJ Lewis, who’s been leading the Masters of the Universe franchise into multiple toylines and animated series over the past few years. He-Man is presumably taking a well-deserved break for his 40th birthday,…Read more...

Three years in, the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic continue to reverberate around the world. The widescale, if unequal, distribution of vaccines has surely saved millions of lives and lessened people’s misery since the beginning of 2021. But thousands of people worldwide are still dying, and millions are getting…Read more...

Celsius filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Wednesday, leaving users wondering if they’ll ever again see the money they put into the crypto platform. Unfortunately for the average user, they’ll have to wait in line with the company’s other creditors, something that was made explicit in the platform’s…Read more...

Men living in the United States are far sicker than men in similarly wealthy countries, a new report has found. Among other things, American men are more likely to die early from preventable causes than those living in 10 other countries, including Canada, Australia, and the UK. Financially struggling men also tended…Read more...

io9 was invited to preview the Jupiter’s Claim set from Jordan Peele’s Nope, soon to be featured on the legendary Studio Tour attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood. While the plot of the film is still very under wraps, we were able to participate in an immersive carnival experience as we explored the real…Read more...

A young woman finds herself trapped in a “private dollhouse.” Another young woman opines, “People are the most interesting right after death.” Yet another young woman is taunted by her friends for feeling fear. Plus: Serial killers! Body horror! Eyeballs in extreme close-up! American Horror Stories is coming back, and…Read more...

Paramount+ series Evil is currently in its third season and was just renewed for a fourth—so it’s safe to say it has plenty of fans already gobbling up its unique blend of mystery, religion, monsters, and mayhem. But for anyone who needs more convincing, here are 10 reasons why you should be tuning in.

Ring is rejecting the request of a U.S. senator to introduce privacy-enhancing changes to its flagship doorbell video camera after product testing showed the device capable of recording conversations well beyond the doorsteps of its many millions of customers. Security and privacy experts expressed alarm at the…Read more...

By now, there’s no point in “reviewing” What We Do in the Shadows, a certified smash hit which returned this week to drop its first two season-four episodes on FX and Hulu, and has already been renewed for seasons five and six. So consider this more of an appreciation than a review, because in these dark times, we…Read more...

Scattershot budgets, lack of coordination, stalling research and development, and rapid worker turnover are threatening the Department of Energy’s ability to sufficiently store and secure the nation’s ever-growing trash bin of toxic nuclear waste.Read more...

We are here once again asking that you purchase games not from a massive online retailer plagued by allegations of environmental badness, worker abuse, industry monopolization, and more, but instead buy from rather less destructive places, like itch.io, the home of many an independent game designer! I’ve even made a…Read more...

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Were you already feeling lukewarm about Netflix looking to create a cheaper ad-supported tier for subscribers? Would it make you feel better if you knew that big boy Microsoft is now going to be the one shacked up with the streaming giant?Read more...

For some reason there’s this cloud of uncertainty around Rob Zombie’s upcoming film The Munsters. When it was first announced, it almost sounded like a joke. Something the House of 1000 Corpses director came up with on April Fools’ Day to get a few laughs. But slowly it became obvious not only was it real, it was…Read more...

Every year, we are blessed with even more emojis. The library of small, pictographs gets one step closer to usurping existing human languages as a nuanced mode of communication. Despite everything else happening, 2022 is no different: Unicode has released its list of emoji finalists that may or may not (but probably…Read more...

We’ve all been thinking about it: with all these new devices and gadgets on the horizon, will the supply chain be able to keep up with demand? According to some analysts, the forecast may be grim. The next iPhone might not even escape the scarcity of materials, with production for the speculated but unconfirmed iPhone…Read more...

Roll20 and OneBookShelf, the distribution platform for the massive online tabletop roleplaying game storefronts DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Master’s Guild, have announced that they are “leveling up” to form a joint venture. They aim to create a “seamless future of cross-platform PDF support” and hope to launch…Read more...

It turns out Mexico may actually pay for an expensive U.S. border wall after all, but certainly not in the way former president Donald Trump would have hoped.Read more...

The Ms. Marvel finale is here, and as you might expect, events are coming to a head. As Kamala (Iman Vellani) returns from Karachi with her mother (Zenobia Shroff), she doesn’t know that Kamran (Rish Shah) has received powers similar to hers from his now deceased mother Najma (Nimra Bucha), and is now being hunted by…Read more...

It’s hard to believe we’re already into day two of capitalism’s most sacred holiday. Amazon Prime Day happens just once a year (or maybe twice, if rumors are correct) and amongst all the legitimate bargains and deals worth grabbing, there are hundreds of products on sale that no discount will ever make appealing or…Read more...