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It feels like few companies actually listen to their users, but Arcade1Up once again proves its ears are open to fan requests with two new scaled arcade machines that retro coin-op enthusiasts have been begging for: a stand-up version of Ridge Racer with a steering wheel and pedals, and a beautiful recreation of the…Read more...

Lucasfilm publishing and Del Rey might not officially be at New York Comic Con as it kicks off today, but they’re bringing their usual slice of upcoming novel news anyway—and whether you’re a fan of the sequels or the prequels, of Jedi or Sith, or maybe a lovably incompetent stooge or two, there’s something to enjoy.

This week, the World Health Organization released diagnostic criteria for long covid, a perplexing condition that has affected survivors of covid-19. Among other things, the WHO notes that patients can experience symptoms months after their initial infection and that these symptoms can be severe enough to impact their…Read more...

You know those times you’re at a party you don’t really want to be at and staring at a blank wall is more appealing than socializing? To a high-res camera, that seemingly boring blank wall is actually a wealth of information that can be used to figure out how many people are in a room and what they’re doing.Read more...

Usually, a show like the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks—where the events our ensigns get up to are mostly like the c-plot in any other series—upping its stakes and scope might come with a level of apprehension. Perhaps the show would move away from what made it work, and going big could maybe stretch its humor too farRead more...

As students at the University of South Florida quietly sobbed during a moment of silence for George Floyd last summer, they had no idea their candlelight vigil, organized before a monument to an assassinated civil rights leader, had been infiltrated by federal agents.Read more...

Capitulating to mounting pressure from shareholders, Microsoft has agreed to make it easier for customers to independently repair of its devices—a major and thus far unprecedented win for the Right-to-Repair Movement.Read more...

When Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went through a six-hour outage on Monday, your immediate reaction was probably based on two things: where you live, and where your family lives.Read more...

Who needs the anticipation of a launch event when you have retailers and leakers publishing details beforehand? Basically we know everything there is to know about Google’s upcoming Pixel 6 flagship, thanks to a German retailer revealing pricing and availability and a fresh leak detailing all the features and…Read more...

Lunar material brought to Earth last December—the first new Moon rocks scientists have gotten their hands on since the 1970s—have been found to be about a billion years younger than previously dated samples. That means that there was liquid magma on the Moon a billion years more recently than previously known,…Read more...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Memoranda from the End of the World” by Gene Doucette. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on our website. Enjoy!

Before Perseverance touched down in Mars’s Jezero Crater in February 2021, scientists’ understanding of crater was shaped by observations from spacecraft, like the Mars Express satellite and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But now, with an operational robot getting its wheels dirty on the ground, an interdisciplinary…Read more...

Yeah, turns out all those soldiers and giant sand worms are gonna be up to something in Denis Villeneuve’s new take on the sci-fi icon.

Since President Joe Biden took office in January, tensions between the White House and the environmental justice movement have ratcheted up. In recent weeks, though, they’ve come to a head over an email campaign. Ten high-level administration officials had their inboxes flooded with 5,600 messages over two days in…Read more...

Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past …Read more...

Though Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was generally set in the same universe as the CW’s Riverdale, the two live-action Archie Comics adaptations only ever had the slightest bit of crossover—a stark contrast from their comics counterparts who’ve interacted quite frequently.Read more...

Like a spooky ghost rising up from the grave on All Hallows’ Eve, Microsoft’s Kinect accessory is back from the dead—again. Comcast-owned European pay TV company Sky rolled out an accessory to be paired with its new Glass TVs on Thursday that looks suspiciously like the doomed spatial camera Microsoft has been trying…Read more...

Like an abusive partner, Facebook has convinced us that we have no options and we’ll never be able to live without it. We had our chance with Ello, and we blew it, dumb fucks that we are. Now we’ve chained ourselves to harvesting content for Mark Zuckerberg until and after the day we die, to the extent that there’s no…Read more...

Robots could someday help dispose of nuclear waste. Scientists from the University of Bristol working on the problem recently paid a visit to some of the most contaminated places at the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility to further this goal. The researchers are helping develop new technologies, including using a…Read more...

The original Resident Evil games are remembered as horror icons in gaming, and rightly so; their riffs on zombie tropes have created a franchise that has since exploded into one of the biggest names in the industry. That means it’s easy to forget that those classics have more than a little bit of cheesy charm to them,…Read more...

If it feels like it’s been ages since we last caught up with the Robinson family on Netflix, that’s because it has! Season two started streaming way back in December 2019. Finally, we have our first tease at what the sci-fi revamp’s third and final season has in store for us this December.Read more...

Apple Car rumors may have cooled in the last few months, but that doesn’t mean the company has given up on its automotive ambitions. A new Bloomberg report claims that Apple is in the early stages of expanding CarPlay to be more than just an infotainment system.

New research provides a grim toll of the number children who have lost a parent to covid-19. The study estimates that at least 120,000 kids have lost their primary caregiver to the pandemic, while another 20,000 have lost a secondary caregiver, as of the end of June 2021. These deaths were disproportionately more…Read more...

As part of a new feature that’s expected to get a wider release later this fall, Google’s new “Quick Phrases” will soon allow people to perform a ton of voice commands without saying “OK, Google” or “Hey Google,” first.Read more...

A WandaVision spinoff with breakout evil witch of 2021, Agatha Harkness? Now this is chaos magic, Wanda.Read more...

While What If’s season one finale finally brought into the fold one of its most promising characters, a variant of Gamora known for slaying Thanos, there was something rather curious about how the character arrived. As planned-out in advance as Marvel projects tend to be, there was no way that What If’s creative team…Read more...

It’s been rumored for a while, but today Lego officially revealed the largest model it’s ever released: a replica of the famed and ill-fated Titanic that measures over four-and-a-half feet long when fully assembled. It’s a stunning replica—both inside and out—because it breaks into multiple sections to reveal its…Read more...

DC Comics superstar writer Scott Snyder feels like a man spinning a billion plates at once, but the last few weeks have proven monumentally busy. Having launched his own substack about comics writing and announced one of multiple new original series for Comixology Originals with long-time collaborator Greg Capullo,…Read more...

Marvel’s She-Hulk writer’s room adds a Robot Chicken alumni. Netflix kicks off its holiday programming push with A Boy Called Christmas. Plus Riverdale hypes its season six return by going somehow even more bonkers than usual. To me, my spoilers!

Got a rebellious pup that won’t sit still for photos in highly Instagrammable locales without a collar and leash? The next version of Photoshop Elements will include intelligent tools that make it easy to erase unsightly elements on your pets with just a couple of simple brush strokes.Read more...

I’ve been on a quest to find the perfect E Ink device that combines all the best features and applications of electronic ink while still being small enough that I’ll actually want to carry it around all day. For my needs, that device is the new Onyx Boox Nova Air, which packs enough flexibility to make it more than…Read more...

If you just bought a brand new iPhone 13, you might want to check out your options in Settings. If you restored your new phone from a backup of your old one, you may want to fine-tune it to better suit your needs. If you’re setting up the iPhone 13 as a brand new phone, well, you’ll have plenty to dive into. The iOS…Read more...

Pharmaceutical firm Moderna plans to build a vaccine factory in Africa that will cost as much as $500 million, according to a press release from the company early Thursday. Moderna will soon start the process of site selection on the continent and it’s already been narrowed down to about five unnamed countries,…Read more...

A phone system glitch linked to Verizon made it impossible for countless customers to call their banks and other companies.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced the launch of a new investigative team focused on disrupting “criminal misuse” of cryptocurrency. Dubbed the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, or NCET, for short, the team will target crooked crypto exchanges, money launderers, and other unsavory elements that occupy…Read more...

From the looks of this trailer, documentary series The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek will consist mostly of interviews with cast and crew members across the beloved, long-running franchise—providing sort of an oral history of the show. A spicy oral history of the show, if the intriguingly fun soundbites in its…Read more...

The European Parliament has called for EU lawmakers to institute a ban on law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, as well as other surveillance tools commonly used in the course of algorithm-driven predictive policing.Read more...

Though it’s been some time since Legends of Tomorrow counted villain-turned-begrudging hero Captain Cold among its ranks following his death in the show’s season one finale, it’s never taken all that much for characters to be miraculously resurrected in the CW’s universe of DC superhero shows.Read more...

Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery.

Though director William Eubank’s Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin is meant to be a narrative reboot separate from the overarching tale established in the original films, the movie’s latest trailer definitely makes it seem like the new story’s going to have quite a few unsettling details in common with its…Read more...

Deleting a third-party app on your Apple device isn’t exactly rocket science—in fact, it’s as easy as clicking a button. But just because you delete the app doesn’t mean that the account you set up within that app is gone for good. Starting Jan. 31, 2022, Apple will be requiring third-party developers to streamline…Read more...

The past two years have seen a huge amount of buyouts and mergers in the gaming industry, and now GN—parent company of well-known audio brand Jabra—has agreed to purchase gaming peripheral maker SteelSeries.

As vaccination rates have increased, I’ve been able to do something in the past few weeks I’ve not been able to do for over a year and a half: go sit in a dark room for several hours that is not in my own house, and see a movie. Things have changed, of course—there are still masks (albeit fewer than you’d hope),…Read more...

Facebook is in the midst of its biggest crisis to date—an impressive feat, no doubt, given the litany of crises preceding it. It’s a safe bet that trust in the company has hit its lowest point in its 17-year history. Still, anyone second-guessing the significance of the recent whistleblower revelations about Facebook…Read more...

The fight against malaria, one of the world’s worst diseases for decades, is likely to get much easier as the World Health Organization has endorsed the wide use of a malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline, the first ever to win such approval. The vaccine will be recommended for children in sub-Saharan Africa…Read more...

Medical device maker Medtronic has expanded its recall of remote controllers for its MiniMed 508 and MiniMed Paradigm insulin pumps. The reason? The devices are a potential cybersecurity risk. According to the Food and Drug Administration, unauthorized people could hijack the devices to alter how much insulin is…Read more...

The Russian government is moving to clamp down on reporting about its state space corporation Roscosmos or its space program in general, Ars Technica first reported on Wednesday, by forcing any journalists who touch a laundry list of topics to declare themselves as “foreign agents.”

The Hollywood Reporter published a story today about the industry’s divided and frustrated response to keeping casts and crews safe during filming when certain members of projects forgo receiving covid-19 vaccinations—and the chaos positive cases are having on productions over and over. The trade alleged that Letitia…Read more...

A There Will Be Blood-style drama unfolds in Canada, where a Bitcoin mining operation illegally tapped an unused natural gas well near a wealthy neighborhood in Alberta. The company Link Global might have gotten away with pilfering gas, if not for noise complaints from area hot tub owners. This story has everything.

Though Wayne Family Adventures, DC and Webtoon’s weekly comic that follows the adventures of Batman and his unruly children, only began publishing online a few weeks ago, the Webtoon-exclusive series quickly amassed the sort of gargantuan readership that traditional comics publishers dream about.Read more...