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- People Are Stealing Water in California at Record Rates for Illegal Weed Farms
- D&D's Lead Rule Designer Explains Why Actual Play Has Influenced the Game
- The Strange Case of the Climate Scientists Fighting a Wind Farm
- I Wanted to Love Framework’s Modular Laptop, but It’s Got Issues
- Leaks Suggest Samsung's New Foldables Could Be Priced Closer to a Standard Phone
- The All-Nighter Asks an Important Question: What If Vampires Were Superheroes?
- More of Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead Is on the Way
- Dune's New Trailer Is All About Paul Atreides' Great and Terrible Destiny
- Astronomers Confirm Discovery of Moon-Forming Disk Around Young Exoplanet
- Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again
- Telegram CEO's Number Found on List of Potential NSO Spyware Targets
- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Just Kicked Off SDCC 2021
- Facebook Just Blocked the #VaccinesKill Hashtag Two Years Too Late
- More Than One Sabrina Is About to Make a Big Witchy Comeback
- Black Panther 2 Adds I May Destroy You Star Michaela Coel
- FTC Unanimously Backs New Policy Supporting Your Right to Repair Your Own Devices
- Dune, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Saying Farewell to Gaming News
- Here's What's Next for NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
- A Priest Was Outed by His Phone's Location Data. Anyone Could Be Next.
- 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Were Pulled From a Tibetan Glacier
- DC’s New Batgirl Has Been Found in Leslie Grace
- Teens' Scheme to Takeover Twitter Handles Ends With Tragic Death in Swatting Incident
- M. Night Shyamalan Explains Why Old Is His Most Intense Film Yet
- Tumblr Now Allows Creators to Charge for Content—You Know, Except for Porn, Which Is Still Banned
- Scientists Gave Sober Cows a Drunk Walking Test
People Are Stealing Water in California at Record Rates for Illegal Weed Farms Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Cannabis needs water to grow, but water is scarce in California right now. The state is experiencing a record-breaking megadrought which has been exacerbated by this summer's extreme heat. Some weed growers are resorting to stealing water to make sure they have enough to tend to their farms. |
D&D's Lead Rule Designer Explains Why Actual Play Has Influenced the Game Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:30 AM PDT Dungeons & Dragons is undergoing a popularity boom unlike anything in its existence lately. More and more people are picking up the game—and even more have turned it into its own kind of show, as the "Actual Play" genre of streamed campaigns has shot to its own kind of transmedia boom. So it's natural that the team… |
The Strange Case of the Climate Scientists Fighting a Wind Farm Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:11 AM PDT On the edge of the Aegean Sea lies Antikythera, a bone-dry, windswept rock of 8.5 square miles (22 square kilometers) and 22 inhabitants. Despite appearances, this unforgiving land holds immense ecological importance. |
I Wanted to Love Framework’s Modular Laptop, but It’s Got Issues Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT There have been numerous attempts throughout gadget history to make modular devices a thing. Of course, you can build a traditional desktop PC, but what if that level of customizability was possible for everything? Google teased Project Ara, a modular smartphone with swappable component packs, which all but faded into… |
Leaks Suggest Samsung's New Foldables Could Be Priced Closer to a Standard Phone Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:52 AM PDT Earlier this week, Samsung officially announced that its next Unpacked event will take place on August 11, and now due to a recent leak, we may have just gotten a much better idea of how much all of Samsung's new gadgets will cost a few weeks early. |
The All-Nighter Asks an Important Question: What If Vampires Were Superheroes? Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT Superheroes are so blasé. Now, vampire superheroes? That's a cross-demographic hook that we're very much into. io9 has an exclusive look at Comixology's next comic from Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo, alongside colorist Paris Alleyne, letterer Aditya Bidikar, and editor Alison O'Toole, after their collaboration on … |
More of Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead Is on the Way Posted: 22 Jul 2021 06:40 AM PDT Rob Zombie keeps teasing his Munsters remake. Expect Halloween Ends to go a bit smaller after Halloween Kills' bloody escalation. Plus, what's to come on Fort Salem, Legends of Tomorrow, and Stargirl. To me, my spoilers! |
Dune's New Trailer Is All About Paul Atreides' Great and Terrible Destiny Posted: 22 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT The prophecy has spoken, and it says we're all in big trouble. The latest trailer has surfaced from the sand for Denis Villeneuve's Dune, which sees Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) facing off against two of the greatest enemies his family has ever known: Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), and himself. |
Astronomers Confirm Discovery of Moon-Forming Disk Around Young Exoplanet Posted: 22 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT Two years ago, astronomers spotted an apparent circumplanetary disk around a planet outside of our solar system, but they couldn't be certain. Follow-up observations now show they were right, in a discovery that could improve our understanding of exomoons and how they form in emerging star systems. |
Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again Posted: 22 Jul 2021 03:35 AM PDT Elon Musk has apparently changed his mind about bitcoin. Again. The billionaire founder of SpaceX said Tesla would likely accept bitcoin again in the future after dropping the cryptocurrency over environmental concerns. |
Telegram CEO's Number Found on List of Potential NSO Spyware Targets Posted: 21 Jul 2021 04:40 PM PDT Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of chat platform Telegram, is the latest person to be swept up in the ongoing scandal involving the NSO Group. |
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Just Kicked Off SDCC 2021 Posted: 21 Jul 2021 04:30 PM PDT After 2013's G.I. Joe Retaliation, all of your favorite Joe and Cobra toys got put back in a box. Eight years later, just a few are coming back out in the hopes that when the rest follow, it'll be for the long haul. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins opens this weekend and, in anticipation, held the opening panel at… |
Facebook Just Blocked the #VaccinesKill Hashtag Two Years Too Late Posted: 21 Jul 2021 04:05 PM PDT At least two years after it would have been politically prudent to do so, Facebook moved to block content under the #VaccinesKill hashtag on Wednesday. |
More Than One Sabrina Is About to Make a Big Witchy Comeback Posted: 21 Jul 2021 03:45 PM PDT Sabrina Spellman is back, in more ways than one. Not only is Archie Comics coming out with a new issue of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina after a four-year absence, but creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is launching a second comic book series that will continue the story of the Netflix adaptation. |
Black Panther 2 Adds I May Destroy You Star Michaela Coel Posted: 21 Jul 2021 03:15 PM PDT Very little is known about the plot of upcoming sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It's once again written and directed by Ryan Coogler, is filming now, and huge aspects of it had to be reworked after the tragic passing of star Chadwick Boseman. Beyond that, most of the actors from the original are expected to… |
FTC Unanimously Backs New Policy Supporting Your Right to Repair Your Own Devices Posted: 21 Jul 2021 02:37 PM PDT Following an executive order from President Biden, today the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to adopt a new a policy designed to support the growing right to repair movement. |
Dune, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Saying Farewell to Gaming News Posted: 21 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This one is bittersweet because it's the last edition of Gaming Shelf I'll be doing for the site. I've shared more about that below, but in the meantime let's dive into the latest news about roleplaying games for Dune and … |
Here's What's Next for NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:45 PM PDT The Perseverance rover is gearing up to drill some Martian rocks, and mission scientists have seen evidence for ancient flash flooding in the dried-up lakebed where the rover landed. NASA shared these updates and more during a press conference today at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. |
A Priest Was Outed by His Phone's Location Data. Anyone Could Be Next. Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:32 PM PDT This week we got one of the most nightmarish tech privacy stories to rear its ugly head on the internet: an investigation into a trove of location data siphoned from a mobile device belonging to one of the Catholic Church's top officials, Jeffrey Burrill. Like many stories about whatever's lurking in the average… |
15,000-Year-Old Viruses Were Pulled From a Tibetan Glacier Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:10 PM PDT A team of microbiologists studying glacier ice in Tibet found 33 different viruses dating back to the Pleistocene in the core samples they pulled up. They suspect that the viral communities may have been active on glacier surfaces before being frozen and that some may be active even within the ice cores. |
DC’s New Batgirl Has Been Found in Leslie Grace Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:05 PM PDT Warner Bros.' expansion of the Bat-wing of its myriad plans for the DC movieverse just took a major leap forward: a new cinematic Barbara Gordon has been found, and it's In the Height's Leslie Grace. |
Teens' Scheme to Takeover Twitter Handles Ends With Tragic Death in Swatting Incident Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:00 PM PDT A troll conspiracy to capture a generic Twitter handle has resulted in death, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN has reported. According to the station, an underage extortionist going after the "@Tennessee" Twitter account placed a false 9-11 report ("swatting") of a shooting at the home of 60-year-old handle owner Mark… |
M. Night Shyamalan Explains Why Old Is His Most Intense Film Yet Posted: 21 Jul 2021 12:50 PM PDT Twelve hours after watching Old, the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan, I couldn't shake it. It was sitting with me... lingering... haunting. Shyamalan is known for making smart, twisty-turny thrillers, but Old adds a brand new dimension: a punishing, unrelenting intensity. Truly, it borders on sadistic. So when I… |
Tumblr Now Allows Creators to Charge for Content—You Know, Except for Porn, Which Is Still Banned Posted: 21 Jul 2021 12:30 PM PDT Tumblr is following the lead of virtually all its competitors and introducing a new paid subscription tool for artists, writers, bloggers, other creators, the Wall Street Journal first reported on Wednesday. |
Scientists Gave Sober Cows a Drunk Walking Test Posted: 21 Jul 2021 12:20 PM PDT Veterinary researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden made cows walk a straight line, all the while recording their movements through motion sensors. Far from trying to identify the drunkards in the group, the scientists actually hope their research can one day help farmers better identify cows with potential health… |
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