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Ben Santer, one of the nation’s leading climate scientists, said he is cutting ties with a prestigious government-funded laboratory over its plans to invite a scientist who has spread climate denial to speak in a seminar.

Researchers say their experimental gene therapy was able to partially restore a man’s eyesight 40 years after he lost most of his vision. The findings are exciting, but the authors of the new study caution that more research will be needed to confirm the effectiveness of this treatment.Read more...

Self-driving cars are still a few years away (at least) from being available to you or me. But there’s a lot of work to do to get them ready for prime time, including ensuring they’re climate-friendly. A new study underscores that last part, showing that nearly one-third of people would choose an autonomous vehicle as…Read more...

It would have been perfectly understandable if Warner Bros. had decided not to move forward with the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel it first announced back in 2016. But the studio’s still keen on bringing the world’s second-most unsettling candy man back to the big screen with a new story.Read more...

Back in the ‘80s, Nintendo’s renewed commitment to quality games helped the company rebuild the crashed video game market with the NES, but now that consoles basically print money, the company seems less worried about what ends up on its hardware. A new $10 app promises to turn your Switch into a motion-…Read more...

A security unit tasked with assessing threats against the U.S. Department of Commerce used counterintelligence tools to gather information about U.S. citizens and foreign visitors to the United States, unauthorized surveillance that included the monitoring of Americans’ Twitter accounts for comments critical of the…Read more...

Horror has a rich history of movies revolving around cursed masks that spell doom for the wearer—and usually anyone in the wearer’s vicinity. Halloween III: Season of the Witch is one example; Demons is another. Brazilian slasher Skull: The Mask now adds itself to the list, with extra-squishy flair.Read more...

We live in a world of refuse—not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but also the texts, emails, and torrented movies looked at once and left to languish in the cloud. We appear to be verging on a crisis point with the first kind of trash, but rarely ever think about the…Read more...

Charlie’s about to bite his last finger.Read more...

Nondescript on the forest floor, the flowering plant Aristolochia microstoma has developed an arresting means of self-preservation: It smells like dead bugs, which attracts the living bugs that act as the plant’s pollinators.

In the wake of an unexpected eruption at Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, more than 150 children have been separated from their families and another 170 are feared missing, according to the UNICEF. Tens of thousands of adults are also scattered across the region, including scores that…Read more...

While device makers continue to refine the design of today’s foldable phones, a new patent recently granted to Samsung suggests that it could ax the physical buttons on a future Galaxy Z Fold and go with touch controls instead.Read more...

Microsoft is closer to turning the the Surface Duo into the mobile gaming machine many hoped it would be with new support for custom layouts when using Xbox Touch Controls in the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.Read more...

It was inevitable that TikTok’s algorithm would cause a nation of unbearably horny teens on the cusp of hot vaxx summer to incite anarchy. On Saturday, a crowd of roughly 2,500 people inspired by a viral TikTok video descended on Huntington Beach, California, marching in the streets and vandalizing property, generally…Read more...

Adult Swim really doesn’t want you to forget that the fifth season of Rick and Morty comes out next month. As such, here is the third new trailer for the show, the second released in May, with a new assortment of all the buck wild nonsense that Rick and/or Morty will afflict on themselves, their family, and the…Read more...

I sincerely wondered if the otherworldly and beautiful creature in the photo above was real or computer-generated, perhaps for a sci-fi TV show. It is, however, very much of this world. This is the lion’s mane jellyfish, the longest jellyfish in the world.Read more...

Thor: Love & Thunder teases some new updates for New Asgard. Dwayne Johnson shares a few behind-the-scenes looks at Black Adam. Plus, what’s to come on Legends of Tomorrow, more footage from Cruella, and Netflix shares a glimpse at its latest Scandanavian genre acquisition, Katla. Spoilers, away!

More and more Americans are fully vaxxed and ready to party, so it’s good timing for Sony’s four new Bluetooth speakers.Read more...

Tesla likes to make a lot of claims about the performance of vehicles that don’t exist yet, and promises the upcoming Tesla Roadster can go from zero to sixty miles per hour in just 1.9 secs, and possibly even faster if you drink the Musk Kool-Aid. But for far less than $200,000, a YouTuber has built an RC electric…Read more...

Though most everything about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date has made it seem as if all of the most pivotal moments in the fictional reality’s history have taken place relatively recently, the studio’s upcoming Eternals film is set to recontextualize everything with a story about some of Earth’s earliest,…Read more...

The Nvidia Shield TV has been flying the Android TV flag for many years at this point, and through regular updates, it has remained one of the very best gadgets running Google’s TV operating system. If you have one of these set-top boxes under your TV, here are some tips and tricks to make the most out of it.

India has reported over 300,000 deaths from covid-19, the third worst death toll in the world behind the United States and Brazil, according to the latest figures from India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. Officially, the death toll in India stands at 303,720, though public health experts fear the…Read more...

India’s information technology ministry has reportedly sent notices to social media platforms asking them to censor content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus.Read more...

On Saturday, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo volcano suddenly erupted, forcing thousands to flee to neighboring Rwanda to seek shelter. By Sunday, reports stated that the speed of Nyiragongo’s lava had slowed and that the nearby city of Goma, home to more than one million people, had been spared.Read more...

Zack Snyder’s new Netflix Zombie action flix Army of the Dead premiered Friday, May 21, on the streaming service.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is facing a million-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea to create a Woz-branded tech school, according to a weekend Insider report.Read more...

HBO MAX confirms season three of Titans will hit streaming in August 2021. One could say the show is somewhat connected to the CW/DC universe as Greg Berlanti helped develop the show as Berlanti is responsible for the expansive DC universe at the CW network. Greg Walker and Sarah Schechter act as executive producers…Read more...

Season four of Star Trek: Discovery started production in November 2020. While writing for the series has wrapped, filming still continues. And returning for the new season is comedian Tig Notaro. Notaro’s character Jett Reno debuted in season two episode “Brother” and has been a recurring character since her debut.Read more...

The life and times of one of the world’s greatest singers, Freddy Mercury, is soon coming to bookshelves from Z2 comics! Freddy Mercury: Lover of Life, Singer of Songs, will chronicle his life from his childhood in Zanzibar, growing up in England, to becoming beloved by millions of fans the world over.

It is well known that one of the top complaints about Apple’s last Siri Remote for its Apple TV was its ability to get itself lost in the abyss of living rooms. Apple could have fixed this with its second-generation Siri remote by adding, for instance, a handy dandy AirTag. Apparently though, the company thought that…Read more...

Starting next week, Twitch is adding more than 350 new community tags to its streaming platform related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health, and other categories, the company said in a blog post Friday.Read more...

The Nintendo GameCube turns 20 years old this year. While part of its claim to fame has always been its compact design, one Reddit user has proven that you can, in fact, squeeze an entire PC capable of running high-end games into the classic home console.Read more...

Do you remember Mark Water’s disastrous 2014 directorial adaptation of Richelle Mead’s book Vampire Academy? The film currently sits at 16 percent on rotten tomatoes and an equally lousy audience score, labeling it a box office dud. However, Peacock TV, and executive producer Julie Plec intends to the right that wrong…Read more...

Apple’s recent hifi audio streaming launch for Apple Music was received with enthusiasm, but also all sorts of confusion when it comes to lossless audio. Today, Apple tried to clear up user questions about lossless audio and also announced that the HomePod and HomePod mini would support the feature.

There’s no denying The Conjuring universe is massively successful with two Conjuring movies, three Anabelle movies, The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona (2019), and a third Conjuring film on the way.

Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo will star opposite Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel, Poor Things.

Another day, another Snyder cut. Right off the heels of Justice League (The Snyder Cut), the action director admits there is a director’s cut of his 2011 fantasy film Sucker Punch. This would be the third cut of the movie as there is an extended DVD cut, but something much different than the director’s cut.

I became a mom for the first time this year—a dog mom, that is. In January, I adopted my first dog, a 1-year-old black lab/dachshund mix named T-Rex. (He has a huge head, a long body, and tiny, stumpy legs; he is perfect, thank you.)Read more...

Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly. They achieved this perfect unison of drums using a quantum mechanics phenomenon known as entanglement—and the drums could be useful for developing quantum computers.

The same hackers that took down the Irish health system last week also hit at least 16 U.S. medical and first responder networks in the past year, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation alert made public Thursday by the American Hospital Association.Read more...

Snap is going all-in on its augmented reality smart glasses whether consumers want them or not. Right after announcing the latest generation of its Spectacles line, news surfaced that Snap has agreed to acquire WaveOptics, which supplies the AR displays powering its frames, for more than $500 million, the Verge…Read more...

In what truly seems like a dystopian nightmare come to life, the public safety alert app Citizen apparently has plans to hire teams of security contractors to respond to app users’ incident response requests—a sort of Blackwater-ification of local public safety that can surely only lead to good things.Read more...

This. This is the look of a man who knows he has 10 long episodes of exponentially increasing horror ahead of him.Read more...

After his Star Wars tenure came to a somewhat disappointing conclusion, John Boyega wasted no time using his sizable platform to speak openly and candidly about the very real issues present within the multibillion dollar space opera franchise and the entertainment industry at large. In a new interview he discussed how…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest toys and collectibles that make it difficult to remain a fiscally responsible adult. This week brings gauntlets galore, a memorable Thor foe, a prime example of Prime, a Lego symbol of acceptance and inclusivity, and enough foam to throw a…Read more...

After going through all the effort of finding a beautiful 4K TV at a ridiculously good price, you’re gonna want to make sure that the content you’re watching on that glorious screen is actually 4K—believe it or not, it doesn’t happen automatically!Read more...

Twitch has officially released its policy on creators who livestream from hot tubs: It’s OK, as long as the streamer is in swimwear that is “contextually appropriate.”

According to a new estimate released by the World Health Organization, at least 3 million people worldwide likely lost their lives to the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The figures are the latest to suggest that many countries’ official counts have substantially underestimated the toll of the pandemic, which is still…Read more...

We’ve already seena few unofficial peeks of Flash actor Jordan Fisher as Barry and Iris’ speedy son from the future, Bart Allen, in his superhero costume. It doesn’t look bad—although you wouldn’t know this from the CW show’s official reveal of Impulse, which is absolutely horrifying.