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Buying shoes can be a hard and frustrating thing to do. When you have a fat pinky toe like I do, it dictates how I can dress my feet, which determines the rest of my outfit. While they can usually fit into a size eight, fitting and being comfortable are two very different things. That’s why I can’t for the life of me…Read more...

Recapturing the magic of classic movies—or at least trying to—has been a staple of pop culture’s obsession with nostalgia, Stranger Things being one current example. Entertainment has a specific fixation with growing up pre-internet, something that can be evoked to make a meaningful impact, but can also come across as…Read more...

Star Wars diehard or Star Wars newbie, if you’re a fan of the galaxy far, far away, you probably have a favorite character that isn’t one of the major heroes or villains, or even one of the myriad supporting stars. Just, you know: that cool background character who maybe shows up for a glimpse, or a tie-in media…Read more...

Earlier this week, Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based aeronautics startup, released renderings for Stargazer—an incredibly fast high-altitude vehicle it’s hoping to develop.

They’re gonna need a bigger screen. Two of Steven Spielberg’s most iconic films, 1975's Jaws and 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, are being given special IMAX releases later this year, with Jaws even getting a 3D version as well.Read more...

The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just got a little clearer and fans are probably going to be shocked. Marvel Studios is reportedly developing a movie based on the comic Thunderbolts and director Jake Schreier has been tapped to bring it to life.Read more...

Between the Spider-Man: Homecomings and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesses and the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunders, you might have forgotten there’s a Marvel video game on the way that looks exceedingly rad. That game is a tactical RPG titled Midnight Suns, based on a rather obscure ‘90s comic series—but…Read more...

Forget dinosaurs engaged in vicious combat. Put aside terrifying fangs and claws. Scientists have discovered a softer side to dinosaurs: the reptilian equivalent of a belly button.

I can remember when Google Earth was merely a tool for me and friends to zoom in on our old streets and homes. I recall squinting at the screen trying to pick out if the satellites managed to pick out my stubby little head poking out the corner of the cul-de-sac where I lived.

We could have had some exciting competition in the wearable realm. Bloomberg says that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, just halted development on a smartwatch with dual cameras in favor of another kind of wearable. It was planned for release in spring 2023, with a price point of around $350, which would have made it…Read more...

HBO and Sony are doing a great job of letting us see as little of their live-action adaptation of The Last of Us as possible. The first official picture from the adaptation of Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed zombie game series was bright, but also just of the backs of its two lead stars. This second look, is...…Read more...

Rapper and entrepreneur Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, is bringing Bitcoin to the place where he grew up. On Thursday, Jay-Z and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the launch of Bitcoin Academy, which will offer free classes on cryptocurrency for residents of the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn, New York.

Apple has even bigger plans for the MacBook Air after unveiling a redesigned model at WWDC earlier this week. According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources, the Cupertino tech company will release a 15-inch MacBook Air next year alongside a new 12-inch laptop, its first take on the concept since the 12-inch…Read more...

NASA will commission a team of scientists to begin investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) this fall, the agency announced today.

For nearly eight months, Lucy has been sailing its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids while NASA engineers on the ground have been working to fix a pesky solar array that refuses to unfurl. The good news is that there now appears to be some progress.

Though it seems clear Tesla CEO Elon Musk would rather spend most of his days attempting to weasel his way out of a disastrous Twitter deal, renewed threats of an Autopilot recall from federal regulators may force the billionaire to re-focus on his day job.Read more...

It’s been nearly four months since Russia invaded Ukraine and there still appears to be no end in sight. Individuals from all walks of life have rallied to the country’s aid, utilizing the internet to preserve Ukrainian websites, crank call Russian bureaucrats, and help refugees find shelter. Two artists have even…Read more...

Tech workers may have lost their cubical walls long ago, but at Microsoft they’re getting another step closer to loosening their chains too.

Having just spent many hours glued to the couch binging Stranger Things season four, a trip out of the house sounded like a fantastic idea—so when io9 was invited to check out “Stranger Things: The Experience,” which just opened in San Francisco, we didn’t even have to roll a multi-sided die to help us decide. Bring…Read more...

A presumed-extinct giant tortoise of the Galápagos Islands was found alive in 2019, and a new DNA study confirms the female tortoise is the same species as an animal collected over a century ago. “Fernanda,” as she’s called, is the only living Fernandina Island tortoise (Chelonoidis phantastica) known and just the…Read more...

It’s currently very hot in the Southwest. In parts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Texas, today’s predicted highs are well above 100 degrees. Those scorching three digit temperatures are expected to increase and persist across the region through the weekend, in the first heatwave of the season for some parts of the…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 “The Crowning of the Lord Tazenket, Vulture God of the Eye” by S.G. Demciri. We’ll be presenting this novelette in two parts; part two will be available on June 16.…Read more...

The partnership between NASA and SpaceX is poised to get even stronger, as the space agency recently announced its intention to purchase five additional Crew Dragon flights to the International Space Station.Read more...

Dell is launching a new version of its renowned XPS 13 with the latest Intel chips, but the tweaks it made to the design and internals are the real highlights.

So far, Strange New Worlds has found strength in simplicity: week in, week out, a new adventure, a new bit of fun, and it’s done and dealt with before moving onto the next. Even the higher-stakes moments have always ended with a clarity that our Starfleet heroes overcame hardship, did the right thing, and saved the…Read more...

The Lone Star State is being pummeled by high temperatures and dry weather. The city of Austin is starting to feel the effects of the ongoing drought in the American Southwest. Earlier this week, Austin began restrictions as water that is stored in lakes Buchanan and Travis, dropped significantly, the Austin…Read more...

Dell’s flagship convertible laptop is changing shape, transitioning from a laptop with a flexible hinge into a tablet with a detachable keyboard. The XPS 13 2-in-1 swaps the 360-degree hinge for an XPS 13 Folio keyboard case that snaps onto the bottom edge and props the tablet into one of three supported angles: 100…Read more...

If you’ve already binge-watched the first volume of Stranger Things’ fourth season—and the odds are decent that you did—you were likely left grasping onto the ledge for dear life thanks to that intense cliffhanger. This sneak peek at the second half (well, 2/9ths) of the season isn’t much, but at least it’s something.

Another rumor is adding to the mounting evidence that Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 40-series graphics cards will be more power-hungry than any existing card.

Only a few days before the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the 18-year-old shooter legally bought both rifles he used to claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults. Now that the ease of buying a gun is again back in the public eye, sites like Facebook find they have some ‘splaining to do as to why they don’t do a…Read more...

It was less than a week ago that the big “secret” of Nope—the newest film from Get Out’s Jordan Peele—appeared in an otherwise innocuous teaser. But now, a giant new trailer for the upcoming horror/sci-fi film has dropped out of the sky, revealing a great many new things.

Former President and apparent aeronautics graphic designer Donald Trump may have inadvertently tried to turn Air Force One into a flying oven. New reports claim Trump’s preferred red, white and blue, Air Force One paint job could lead to sweltering temperatures on board and added costs for Boeing.Read more...

The most recent decline in crypto has some blockchain enthusiasts fearing they’re living inside a bear market, where nobody is truly certain how, when, or even if things will get better for digital currencies.Read more...

Hundreds of astronauts have dared to leave the cozy confines of their spaceships and enter into the cold nothingness of space with only their spacesuits to protect them. The spacewalks we present here are among the most memorable to date, though some not necessarily for good reasons.Read more...

Roboticists from the University of Tokyo have taken a tiny step toward creating the Terminator. They’ve built an articulated robot finger that’s seamlessly covered in living human skin.

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Yesterday, for Ghostbusters day, fans saw a glut of new content and announcements from the beloved paranormal franchise, from toys to television to new movies. Ghostbusters day is recognized ever June 8; the day the original 1984 film premiered in theaters. For a long time it was just another anniversidate, but now,…Read more...

Finding your flight information on those giant densely packed airport screens can often feel as daunting as trying to interpret a wall of hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone. But Delta passengers traveling through Detroit will have a much easier time as a new display being installed there tailors the on-screen…Read more...

Christophe Gans wants to help turn both Silent Hill and Fatal Frame into new movies (... again). Go behind the scenes with a new look at Nope. The Enterprise welcomes aboard a new nonbinary guest star in Strange New Worlds casting. Plus, Masters of the Universe will return for a revolution on Netflix. Spoilers, go!

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Microsoft announced a lot today regarding the “future of gaming” for its Xbox cloud gaming platform. There’s plenty of good news for anyone who is even a little bit curious about venturing into the cloud and likes the Xbox library of game titles. Perhaps the most exciting news is that Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to…Read more...

A personal injury lawsuit filed in California federal court on Monday alleges Instagram’s parent company Meta purposely crafted products to addict young users, steering one 11-year-old girl down a years-long path of physical and psychological harm.

The city of Amarillo, Texas has asked the public for help identifying a weird animal-like figure that was seen on security cameras outside the Amarillo Zoo last month. The official City of Amarillo Facebook page has turned up lots of guesses, but no one knows for sure what the seemingly bipedal cryptid could be.Read more...

After CD Projekt Red’s video game Cyberpunk 2077 became a best seller (despite the hiccups and bugs) last year, Netflix announced it would be producing an anime set in the same world as the first-person RPG. While there have been hints of what the show will be about, Netflix has finally released the first snippet of…Read more...

A few months ago Lucasfilm teamed with LG to shift Boba Fett’s throne all the way from Tatooine to Manhattan—virtually at least, for a 3D-effect billboard promoting The Book of Boba Fett in the heart of Times Square. Well, Star Wars is back in NYC, but this time its accompanying character seems much more annoyed to be…Read more...

On Wednesday, the European Union’s highest court officially ruled that Apple isn’t the only company that can “think different” anymore. The bloc’s Court of Justice on Wednesday officially rejected the tech giants’ bid to hold onto its EU trademark of its once-iconic slogan, giving any non-Apple company in the region…Read more...

Researchers have extracted DNA from a 115,000-year-old polar bear jawbone and used it to analyze the genetic relationship between these Arctic predators and their brown bear cousins (grizzlies included). They found that polar bears intermixed with brown bears quite a bit over the millennia.Read more...

NASA said today that one of the Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments was hit by a micrometeoroid, a small asteroid fragment, between May 23 and May 25. Initial assessments of the telescope found that the spacecraft was still performing exceptionally well, though the effects of the impact were noticeable in…Read more...

Bird announced Wednesday it would lay off 23% of its employees from different teams and regions across the globe.Read more...

By now, you’ve probably seen the first trailer for the long-awaited, highly anticipated DC movie Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson. Johnson has been dreaming of playing the character for years—but now that the first trailer is here, fans might be wondering where the movie and the character stand in the larger DC…Read more...