- newNASA's Cloud Observing Satellite Bids Farewell After 17 Years
After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA’s lidar satellite mission came to an end this past August, the agency has revealed. Read more...
- 17 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 4:10pm -
- newA Rabid Otter in Florida Went on a Rampage Last Week, Attacking a Man and a Dog
As if life isn’t hard enough already: rabid otters are apparently a thing. Florida health officials reported this week that a 74-year-old man and a dog were bitten by an aggressive otter, one that later tested positive for the usually fatal viral…
- 17 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 4:10pm -
- newConcrete Utopia Takes the Disaster Movie in a Whole New Direction
Most modern disaster movies are rather cheesy—big, special effects spectacles that are an excuse to showcase lots of destruction and action. Concrete Utopia, a South Korean disaster movie, has some of that, but really focuses more on what comes in…
- 17 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 4:00pm -
- newDoJ Accuses eBay of Selling Thousands of Environmentally Harmful Products
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit against eBay, Inc. in a Brooklyn Court on Wednesday for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws and for permitting users to sell harmful products that don’t align with…
- 17 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 3:59pm -
- newSnoop Dogg's a Dungeon Master and All of Meta’s Other AI Announcements
Every tech company in existence is currently racing to cram as much AI into their product base as possible, so it’s not at all surprising that Meta’s annual Connect event was flush with such developments this year. In addition to a number of new…
- 17 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 3:41pm -
- newScientists Spot Black Dust and Debris on Canister Containing Asteroid Sample
Following a nearly three-year journey through space, the canister containing samples from asteroid Bennu has finally been opened. Read more...
- 18 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 3:20pm -
- newDan Harmon Dishes on Justin Roiland and Rick and Morty's New Voices
The much-anticipated seventh season of Rick and Morty arrives in just a few weeks; a few days ago, we got a trailer revealing the show’s new “soundalike” voices for its lead characters after Justin Roiland’s departure. It’s been a weird rid…
- 18 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 3:10pm -
- newPaleontologists Find Trilobite’s Last Meal in 465-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Stomach
Here’s something to chew on: a fossilized trilobite from the Ordovician Period, which is so well preserved that a team of paleontologists was able to identify its last meal, now mineralized in the creature’s fossil stomach.Read more...
- 18 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 3:05pm -
- newWarner Music Group CEO Says We Should Embrace AI in the Music Industry
As the Writers Guild of America comes to an agreement with movie and television studios over the use of AI in Hollywood, it would appear that the music industry is in for a reckoning too. CEO of Warner Music Group Robert Kyncl thinks AI is a really g…
- 18 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 3:00pm -
- newThe Next Big Boner Treatment Might Come From Spider Venom
Men looking for a better sex life might someday own their thanks to a spider. A Brazilian pharmaceutical company is developing a topical treatment for erectile dysfunction derived from the venom of Phoneutria nigriventer, aka the Brazilian wandering…
- 19 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 2:20pm -
- newBreaking Down What the Writers Guild Won
After nearly 150 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers have finally reached an agreement. The unit members celebrated across the country, and now the WGA has released a Memorandum…
- 19 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 2:15pm -
- newMeta's New Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Look Kinda Cool and Can Livestream Your Life
Smart glasses seem to be having a resurgence lately. First, Amazon reminded us they still make them with Alexa built in. Now, Meta is launching a new lineup with a slight rebrand. They’re no longer called Stories. Instead, they’re called the Ray-…
- 19 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 2:10pm -
- newCongress's Lone Surgeon Wants States to Regulate AI
A new battle is brewing between states and the federal government. This time the fight isn’t over taxes or immigration but rather the limits of regulating advanced artificial intelligence systems. Political disagreements around AI’s role in healt…
- 19 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 2:00pm -
- newThe Future Supercontinent Will Be Way Too Hot for Mammals to Survive, Study Says
Mammals are halfway through their era on this planet. We’ve existed about 250 million years since mammals evolved on earth and we only have another 250 million left before most of the world is no longer habitable.Read more...
- 19 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 1:50pm -
- newDisney's Jennifer Lee on World of Frozen and Co-Creating a New Heroine in Wish
It all starts with a classic “wish upon a star” in Disney’s centennial animated release Wish.Read more...
- 20 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 1:30pm -
- newMeta's Mixed Reality Quest 3 Has Arrived, Starting at $500
Meta’s been questing around for a new vision for its VR, and it’s finally arrived. At Meta’s 2023 Connect conference, the company introduced the Meta Quest 3, a mixed-reality VR headset. It starts at $500 and you can pre-order it now, with devi…
- 20 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 1:19pm -
- newNetflix's Tomb Raider Will Show Lara Croft's Journey from Survivor to Legend
During its “Drop 01" livestream event, Netflix unveiled the first official look at its Tomb Raider anime, The Legend of Lara Croft. The show was originally announced back in 2021 and marks the first new piece of Tomb Raider media since the 2018 reb…
- 21 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 12:05pm -
- newMasters of the Universe: Revolution Announces 2024 Return With Scare Glow's Help
He-Man returns to Netflix next year for more of Kevin Smith’s epic animated series—this time titled Masters of the Universe: Revolution. A new clip featuring terrifying, fiendishly taunting adversary Scare Glow is here to get you pumped for battl…
- 21 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 12:05pm -
- newNew Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Clip Explains Ramona's Netflix Connection
When Scott Pilgrim searches for his dream girl—you know, the one who has “hair like this”—he gets some important intel from Julie Powers. The rest of the scene, which you can see below, follows what you might recognize from Edgar Wright’s 2…
- 21 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 12:00pm -
- newOpenAI Employee Discovers Eliza Effect, Gets Emotional
Designing a program in such a way that it can truly convince someone that another human is on the other side of the screen has been a goal of AI developers since the concept took its first steps toward reality. Research company OpenAI recently announ…
- 21 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:55am -
- newAhsoka's Penultimate Episode Left Us Breathless for the Finale
Thrawn and Ezra have been found. Our heroes have reached—or are on their way to—a new galaxy far, far away. With season one of Ahsoka nearing its end, the penultimate seventh episode started there and moved all the pieces just one or two steps ah…
- 21 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:50am -
- newBritish Museum Asks Public for Help Locating Stolen Artifacts
The British Museum is asking the public for help to recover several stolen artifacts on a webpage launched on Tuesday. The museum dismissed an unnamed employee over the summer for allegedly stealing artifacts and reported in an Aug. 16 press release…
- 21 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:45am -
- newBlue Eye Samurai Cuts It Up in a Bloody, Slick First Trailer
During its animation-focused “Drop 01" livestream event, Netflix unveiled a first look at Blue Eye Samurai, a brand new series from Michael Green (A Haunting in Venice), his co-writer/wife Amber Noizumi, and supervising director Jane Wu (Interview…
- 22 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:35am -
- newNetflix's Devil May Cry's Anime Makes a Short, Stylish Debut
Netflix has spent the last few years releasing animated series based on popular video games like League of Legends, Tomb Raider, and Castlevania. It’s easy to forget, but at one point, it was revealed Capcom’s Devil May Cry series would be thrown…
- 22 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:30am -
- newJudge Says Google Can't Keep Hiding Its Dealings During DOJ Antitrust Trial
Google has been rather miffed that all its dirty laundry is being aired in public as it tries to fight off federal allegations the company has been monopolizing its digital ecosystem. After nearly a week of trial documents going offline, a judge has…
- 22 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:25am -
- newDisney's New Wish Trailer Promises Fairy-Tale Dreams Come to Life
After a teaser that dropped all the way back in April, we finally have a fresh look at Disney’s Wish. Not to be confused with the synergy-obsessed company’s cruise ship of the same name, this is the animated musical starring Ariana DeBose, Chris…
- 22 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 11:03am -
- newNASA Astronaut Returns to Earth After Record-Breaking ISS Mission
After staying on board the International Space Station (ISS) for more than a year, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has finally returned home with a new record of the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut.Read more...
- 22 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 10:44am -
- newSierra Space Scores Record Funding, Eyes First Commercial Space Station
Sierra Space secured some significant dough during its latest funding round. The company says it will now allocate these funds towards the development of its commercial space station and other orbital tech. Read more...
- 22 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 10:40am -
- newAntimatter Reacts to Gravity in the Same Way as Ordinary Matter, Physicists Find
In the 95 years we’ve known about antimatter, physicists have not tested how the elusive inverse of ordinary matter is affected by gravity, the force that pulls masses to Earth and seems to affect all things in the classical realm.Read more...
- 23 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 10:19am -
- newElon Musk Disables Option to Report Misinformation On X/Twitter
X, formerly called Twitter, disabled its misinformation feature on the platform, effectively removing the option for users to report false election information, research organization Reset.Tech Australia reported on Wednesday. The company has recentl…
- 23 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 10:19am -
- new10 Kid-Friendly Halloween Picks Streaming on Disney+
Got kids in your midst who aren’t quite ready to rip into George Romero’s greatest hits or make Michael Myers’ acquaintance, but who still want to get in the Halloween spirit? Disney+ has a decent selection of kid-friendly flicks we wouldn’t…
- 23 hours ago 27 Sep 23, 10:00am -
- Star Trek 4's Screenwriter Insists It's Still On Track
Kevin Greutert talks Amanda Young’s growth in the Saw movies. The cast and crew of The Exorcist: Believer talk religion in a new featurette. Kristen Stewart’s Living for the Dead gets a new look. Plus, what’s coming on the final episode of Walk…
- 1 day ago 27 Sep 23, 9:00am -
- iPhone Designer Jony Ive Reportedly Discussing a Mystery Hardware Project With OpenAI
OpenAI is looking to continue to bolster its reputation as a modern-day tech juggernaut by pivoting from its incredibly popular software to hardware. The company’s CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with Apple alumnus and product designer Jony…
- 1 day ago 27 Sep 23, 8:46am -
- Microsoft May Go Nuclear to Support Its Energy-Hungry AI
Artificial intelligence has proved a costly endeavor—well, yes, in terms of money, but AI requires massive amounts of energy, and water consumption to operate at scale. That hasn’t stopped big tech companies such as Google and Microsoft from putt…
- 1 day ago 27 Sep 23, 7:50am -
- Here's Your Spoiler Discussion Zone for the Penultimate Episode of Ahsoka
Last week’s “Far, Far Away” was a big episode for Disney+ Star Wars series Ahsoka—though not really a big one for Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) herself, since the Peridea-set action was given over to some other major story beats, including the arri…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 7:30pm -
- Sleep No More Lives Up to Its Legacy in Immersive Theater
Manhattan’s McKittrick hotel looms nondescriptly while housing an entire world of mystery and intrigue inspired by Shakespeare’s Scottish Play. During Halloween season io9 was invited to its current run.Read more...
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 6:30pm -
- Update: With a New Commissioner, FCC Will Finally Try to Reinstate Net Neutrality
Update 9/26/23 at 6:06 p.m. ET: On Tuesday afternoon, Federal Communication Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced the agency would indeed be rolling up its sleeves and would finally attempt to reinstate net neutrality rules. Read more..…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 5:06pm -
- You Can Install macOS Sonoma Now, but You Should Wait
You may have heard that macOS Sonoma is ready to download after a months-long summer beta. But you should hold off on updating to the new version of the operating system if you can. There have been complaints from app developers that their apps are b…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 4:50pm -
- There's Something in the Barn Pits Martin Starr Against Killer Elves
Sometimes even the most flawed movies deserve a tip of the cap for sheer ambition. Sure, it didn’t quite hit the mark, but wow that effort was incredible. And the new Norwegian movie There’s Something in the Barn fits that description. Lots of it…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 4:15pm -
- An Invasive Brain-Infecting Worm Has Made Its Way to Georgia
A parasitic brain-infecting roundworm primarily spread by rats and snails is planting down roots in more parts of the U.S., research this week suggests. Scientists appear to have confirmed the presence of the parasite within local rodent populations…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 4:15pm -
- 'First Official Unity User Group' Disbands Over Company's New Developer Fees
The self-proclaimed oldest cohort of Unity developers—called the Boston Unity Group—has announced that it is dissolving shortly after the game engine developer created a firestorm with changes to how it will charge its users. Read more...
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 3:55pm -
- The Big One: FTC Sues Amazon for Operating Illegal Monopoly
Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan is finally entering the ring with Amazon, her oldest antitrust nemesis. The agency, along with 17 other state attorneys general, is officially suing Jezz Bezos’s e-commerce baby for growing and metastasizing int…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 3:21pm -
- Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an updated road map this week for reaching zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The new report emphasizes that solutions like carbon capture technology and carbon credits have not lived up to their…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 3:20pm -
- Get a First Peek at General Strike, a New Comic Supporting the Hollywood Strikes
With hope on the horizon for an end to the WGA strike—and the SAG-AFTRA strike, too, fingers crossed—a new comic is here to celebrate the powerful Hollywood labor movement, with some big names attached.Read more...
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 3:15pm -
- Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
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- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 3:15pm -
- U.S. Wants to Set Up a Hotline With China for Space Emergencies
As part of its efforts to watch over America’s assets in space, the United States Space Force is looking into establishing a line of communication with China in case of an emergency in orbit. It’s not clear, however, whether or not China will pic…
- 2 days ago 26 Sep 23, 3:10pm -