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It’s official: Android 13 is almost here. Google has announced it’s putting the finishing touches on the next version of the mobile operating system and that a fourth beta is ready for download. You’ll get the update over the air as soon as it rolls out to your device.

There’s more trouble with the Colonial Pipeline: The nation’s largest gasoline pipeline reported a spill in Tennessee in early July, adding onto more than a year of public problems with the company, from a catastrophic hacking to being responsible for the largest gasoline spill in decades.Read more...

The end of Strange New Worlds’ first season also brought an end to an unprecedented run of Star Trek releases—there’d been at least one new episode of a show running every week since early January this year. The franchise is taking a little break until it returns with Lower Decks, however... but you’re not going to be…Read more...

Unless you’ve got access to loads of gamma radiation or some mystical stones, your chances of becoming a real life superhero are very slim. The easier way to achieve your heroic aspirations is through Hasbro’s new Selfie Series: collector-grade six-inch figures featuring a custom 3D-printed version of your own face…Read more...

Snapchat just joined a slew of tech companies that are trying to get in on the NFT trend, adding their own twist on the digital art pieces. Snap is reportedly testing out ways for creators to display their NFTs as filters on the social media platform as a way to showcase their work to admiring fans.Read more...

TikTok is the wild west of social media feeds (and they’re all kinds of a wild west). A scroll could start on a dance trend, jump to a clip of raw chicken ‘marinating’ in NyQuil, and end on video of someone filing their own teeth. It’s weird out there, and occasionally dangerous. Now TikTok is taking its next steps…Read more...

After the official renewal announcement in May, Black Mirror is starting to reveal a number of new cast members. The anthology series broke out when it moved to Netflix from Britain’s Channel 4, making it an international sensation in 2014 when the streaming service first began releasing it. Now, for season 6, a whole…Read more...

Google is planning a hiring slowdown through the rest of 2022 with the exception of “critical roles,” according to a letter from CEO Sundar Pichai to employees across the company.

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights one of the many consequences of the covid-19 pandemic in the United States: a disturbing rise in drug-resistant superbug infections. The first year of the pandemic saw the number of resistant infections and deaths in hospitals once again climb,…Read more...

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Apparently, the electric scooter users in big cities can’t be trusted to stay off the sidewalks. Now one of the biggest micro-mobility companies is joining other rentable bike providers in tracking whether its users start riding dirty.Read more...

You never forget your first love, and for many digital photographers, that was the Game Boy Camera: a $90 low-resolution digital camera for the Game Boy released by Nintendo in 1998. Almost a quarter century later, there are still devoted fans of the lo-fi shooter, including Christopher Graves, who turned a Game Boy…Read more...

Calling the BTS ARMY: There will now be even more opportunities for BTS to grace the online corridors of Reddit. How is this so, you ask? GIFs are coming to Reddit comments.Read more...

David F. Sandberg jokes about the prospect of Black Adam making an appearance in Shazam: Fury of the Gods. Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard is writing, directing, and starring in a new horror-comedy. Plus, new looks at The Orville and Netflix’s Resident Evil. Spoilers, away!

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is well aware that his tweets can cost him millions and land him in court. Does that give him pause? Certainly not. Twitter, which is suing the billionaire for attempting the terminate his $44 billion deal to acquire the company, is no doubt giddy over Musk’s lack of self-control and didn’t…Read more...

It’s no secret that Amazon has been less than friendly to its workers who are trying to unionize. And given the way Amazon has wormed its way into the workings of just about everything, it’s hard to avoid shopping with the retail giant. But if you want to still do something to support workers this Prime Day, sign a…Read more...

A former Twitter employee interviewed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack said Tuesday that their former employer was so pleased that President Donald Trump had chosen to make Twitter his go-to platform that the company was willing to ignore credible warnings about real-world violence…Read more...

Words are important, as are the wordsmiths who choose them wisely. Netflix’s Tudum featured a conversation with English Subtitles for the Deaf and hard of hearing author Jeff T. and English SDH quality checker Karli Webster to discuss their work on Stranger Things season four. Their captioning on the show served an…Read more...

Time and circumstances mean that before the wonders of Strange New Worlds, the thought of seeing Star Trek Captains Pike and Kirk together was an unlikely thing. Pike, after all, only existed in the realm of Trek’s original pilot, itself then re-engineered for an episode that forever closed the door on his future on…Read more...

The European Space Agency is ready to launch its brand new Vega-C rocket. Here’s what you need to know about the mission and how you can watch this latest medium-lift rocket blast off for the very first time.

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It’s Prime Day! That means that here at io9 we’re doing things all about Primes across the nerd-o-sphere. And as the local games nerd, I’ve collected seven prime games, which is double prime, because seven is a prime number. From modules to additions, and even a game about the shopping site that wants to monopolize…Read more...

A new investigative report out Tuesday finds that long covid patients are traveling overseas to try out costly and untested treatments for their symptoms, including having their blood filtered. But at least some experts are worried about the trend, cautioning that these treatments have no strong evidence supporting…Read more...

The wait is over. Twitter is officially suing Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, for trying to weasel his way out of his agreement to buy the company. The furious lawsuit accuses Musk of acting in bad faith and comes less than one week after Musk sent a letter to the social media company making clear his intention to…Read more...

We may never see the young Han Solo, as played by Alden Ehrenreich, in the Star Wars universe again, but the actor is returning to its overlord, the Walt Disney universe. Ehrenreich has reportedly been cast in Ironheart, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ show starring Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a young,…Read more...

An “openly jealous” Silicon Valley executive strangled his roommate’s girlfriend to death decades ago out of an “unrequited romantic attachment” to the roommate, police say. Now he’s in custody and facing murder charges a third time. New DNA technology led cops to nab the man for the 1992 murder the 25-year-old…Read more...

Amazon Prime Day is happening, and it’s taken over the internet. You’re lucky if you’ve been able to avoid it thus far. And while there are a few seriously useful deals making the rounds on Amazon’s bi-annual splay-it-out-and-see-who-buys yard sale, we’d be remiss not to partake in our annual tradition of rounding up…Read more...

The Amazon rainforest has reached a new record for deforestation for the first half of this year.

Google wants to remove dating apps Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid and others from its Play Store after getting caught in a legal battle with the owner of the apps, Match Group Inc.Read more...

Few props define a franchise like lightsabers define Star Wars. So, when you’re making a new Star Wars show, extra special attention must be paid to the elegant weapons—and Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi was no exception.Read more...

Crypto mining operations in Texas are tugging at their collars, now finding a reason to sweat other than the lingering crypto bear market. Temperatures in Texas are expected to go well over 100 degrees this week, and the lone star state’s electricity system kindly asked big energy users to kindly hop off the grid for…Read more...

Stranded boats, desiccated fish, and no water on cracked ground that once made a shoreline. That’s the new business-as-usual for Lake Mead, where the West’s punishing drought and chronic water overuse have combined to render the lake almost unrecognizable as water levels continue to plummet.Read more...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack gathered for its a seventh public hearing on Tuesday — this time to establish the existence of ties between the former president, Donald Trump, his closest advisors, and members of far-right militant groups who had gathered in Washington D.C. at his request…Read more...

If 12 years of development and billions of dollars of investment isn’t enough of a red flag for you that you should probably avoid Magic Leap’s augmented reality hardware, the average consumer can finally buy the Magic Leap headset starting this September: assuming the average consumer has $3,300 to drop on a fancy…Read more...

Using a supercomputer, a team of scientists recently determined the exact crater that expelled rock from Mars in the ancient past—a rock that wound up crashing into Earth.Read more...

The LEGO Group is the latest to stop sales in Russia. This halt comes after the company paused shipments to Russia in March. The world’s largest toy maker follows a slew of companies like Starbucks, Adidas, McDonalds, and many more.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. But there are places to shop besides Amazon and the other big-box retailers that have set up locations in cities and suburbs across the country. On Prime Day, they can be a great way to fulfill your retail needs without feeding the beast, plus you might actually find a…Read more...

I don’t know how I missed the news, but somehow I wasn’t aware that Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man manga wasn’t over. Thus it was a completely unexpected yet totally welcome surprise to learn a brand new issue, launching the comic’s “School Arc,” has premiered today. And whatever you might be expecting from the manga…Read more...

The embattled Israeli surveillance for hire spyware firm NSO Group is reportedly ratcheting up its U.S. lobbying efforts in a desperate attempt to get it’s name removed from a U.S. trade blacklist. That blacklist, and the stigma surrounding it, have reportedly derailed NSO’s efforts to sell off its business to…Read more...

Look, I get it. Optimus Prime is a very important Transformer. He was the commander of the Autobots, saved the world from Megatron and the evil Decepticons countless times, and even came back from the dead on multiple occasions. He’s a big deal. But each year, more and more people get more and more obsessed with Prime…Read more...

Early last month, TikTok users across Europe were told that, starting July 13th, the platform would begin using their on-app data to serve up targeted ads, even if those users didn’t consent to the practice. Now, less than a day before that change would have rolled out European Union-wide, it looks like the company’s…Read more...

Several alleged Indian scammers were arrested for getting Russians to bet on fake cricket matches they streamed live on YouTube using a convoluted system of Telegram chats and walkie-talkies to call out hits to players on the field. Okay... yeah… wait, what? Beyond the outlandish nature of the scheme, this is one of…Read more...

NASA has announced the winners of its annual Photographer of the Year competition. From meditative portraits of astronauts through to rockets ready to rock, the contest pays tribute to the space agency’s in-house photographic talent.

Fans of sci-fi and genre programming have plenty of cheer for when Primetime Emmy Awards are handed out on September 12. Netflix’s Squid Game and Stranger Things, Apple TV+’s Severance, and Showtime’s Yellowjackets all got (well-deserved) Best Drama Series nominations, as well as multiple acting nominations, alongside…Read more...

After two years of pandemic turndown, travel is making a big comeback (especially European travel). But airports and airlines aren’t quite ready for it. In the most recent example of flight frenzy overload, Heathrow International Airport in the U.K. has opted to cap departing passenger slots at 100,000 per day through…Read more...

These are really big deals in the world of film, television, books, and games. They’re totally what we’re looking for to celebrate on Prime Day. Because... this is what everyone’s really looking for today, right?

Sometimes it feels like we’re closer than even than to the end of the world, and apparently New York City Emergency Management feels the same way, as the city department released a nuclear attack survival guide.

Spotify has announced that it’s acquiring Heardle. It’s the music guessing game spin-off of Wordle. This acquisition is Spotify’s first acquisition of a game, and is partially seen as a ‘tool for musical discovery’ by Spotify.

The leaked and much-hyped Nothing Phone (1) has finally launched, and as expected, it’s not officially available in the states. It’s a bit of a bummer if you were looking for another Android phone option for the nearly $600 (£400) price range, especially since the Phone (1) has an impressive range of specifications.…Read more...

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to work on Star Wars? To sit in a room and create something that’ll be a part of a galaxy far, far away? To collaborate with legends like composer John Williams? That’s what Natalie Holt has been doing over the past few months. Last last year, she was hired to write the…Read more...