sexta-feira, 8 de julho de 2022


Taika Waititi Considers Directing Star Wars on The Mandalorian a Highlight of His Life

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 05:10 PM PDT

While we wait for Taika Waititi to decide what his Star Wars movie is going to be and he wraps up promotion for his latest Marvel flick, we're just trying to figure out what's really going on with his cryptic humor about his plans to shake things up in a galaxy far, far away. But anyone in doubt that the director…

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Solar Opposites' Mike McMahan Explains How the Hulu Alien Show Is Like The Wire

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 03:30 PM PDT

Solar Opposites returns for its third season next week on Hulu, bringing with it some wild and surreal new adventures for its alien characters—as well as its tiny-human characters and its regular human characters, to boot. Coming from one of the creatives behind Rick and Morty and Star Trek: Lower Decks, you'd expect…

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Trump Reportedly Leaves Board of His Social Media Company Just Weeks Before Federal Subpoenas

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 02:45 PM PDT

The angry Florida man who perpetually has "nothing to hide" is reportedly trying to squirm his way out of yet another potentially dubious business deal.

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LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'Critical Mass' by Peter Watts

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 02:30 PM PDT

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 "Critical Mass" by Peter Watts. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed's website. Enjoy!

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Apple's Version of Virtual Cards Could Be Coming in iOS 16

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 02:20 PM PDT

Just as Google announced it would be adopting virtual cards for shopping through Chrome, Apple is likely also implementing virtual cards in its Safari browser. The news comes from 9to5Mac, which is currently digging through the iOS 16 beta 3, released yesterday afternoon for developers. According to code the site has…

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A Super-Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Just Booted Up

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 02:10 PM PDT

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment team has announced the results from its first scientific run today; the experiment is the world's most sensitive dark matter detector, and though it did not find any dark matter in this first round, the team confirmed that the experiment is working as expected.

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Amazon Cancels Yet Another Hub Meant for the New York Metropolitan Area

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 02:00 PM PDT

Amazon, like many folks still struggling to locate an affordable apartment in and around New York City, can't find anywhere that will let it settle down. First the company tried Queens, but found the neighborhood was too rowdy. Now, the area across the bay is no longer so keen on letting the retail giant set up shop.

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Everything We Know About The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 01:50 PM PDT

  • Inspired by the events detailed in J.R.R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth beyond The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power explores what happened long before the events of those novels, dubbed the Second Age of Middle-earth.

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An Inspiring Step Forward: Theranos' Sunny Balwani Found Guilty on 12 Counts of Fraud

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 01:20 PM PDT

What could've gone wrong when 19-year-old Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes founded blood-testing company Theranos in 2003? Apparently everything, including Theranos ex-president and former COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani being convicted of fraud in a federal court earlier today.

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The Major Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anniversaries of Summer 2022

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 01:15 PM PDT

Birthdays come every year, but since your favorite films only celebrate landmark anniversaries every so often, we like to acknowledge them here at io9. And so, just as we did last year, every few months we're going to let you know which major sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre movies are marking significant…

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Your Cat or Dog Can Now Donate Their Poop to Science

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 12:48 PM PDT

Researchers are looking for a few good pets to donate their time, blood, and feces for science. Mars Incorporated—the makers of several popular candy and pet food brands—recently launched its Pet Biobank project. The study is expected to track the health of 20,000 domestic dogs and cats over a 10-year period. The…

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Samsung's Galaxy Watch 5 Doesn't Seem All That Different from the Galaxy Watch 4

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 12:30 PM PDT

New gadgets are fun to speculate on, especially if it means a distraction from the everyday mess that is society. This summer, we're expecting Samsung to launch the next generation of its foldables. But we're also hoping to see the reprise of the only Android smartwatch worth wearing, the Galaxy Watch 4. According to

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season Finale Struck an Incredible Balance

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 12:19 PM PDT

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a show both in love with, and unable to escape, its place in the Star Trek timeline. From the get-go it's known that inherently—as a series following the captain of the Enterprise we know is going to be replaced by the captain of the EnterpriseStrange New Worlds would as much about…

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You Won't Need a Facebook Account to Use Meta's 'Quest Pro' VR Headset

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 11:40 AM PDT

There's some big news from Meta today. First, Meta is set to release its newest, mysterious, high-end virtual reality headset sometime this year. The company has been referring to the forthcoming VR hardware under the codename "Project Cambria," but the actual headset will probably be called the "Meta Quest Pro,"…

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6 Things We Loved (and 5 We Didn't) About Stranger Things Volume 4 Part 2

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 11:30 AM PDT

We did it, my dudes. We got through Stranger Things season four, which took almost as long to arrive as it did to watch. io9 already had a lively roundtable discussing the ins and outs of season four's second installment, but we also wanted to break down our favorite (and least-favorite) parts of volume two.

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Sony's Plan to Yoink Movies from German Playstation Accounts Again Proves You Don't Own Anything

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 11:15 AM PDT

Want to feel nostalgic for your DVD collection? Well, if you think that buying that movie on your digital platform means you have access to that content in perpetuity, you might need to think again.

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Watch the Star-Studded Trailer for the Ultimate Making-Of Documentary

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 11:00 AM PDT

The trailer that follows will be the most epic, star-studded thing you see today. I don't care if Marvel announces Avengers 5 and dead characters come back from the grave, cross over with Star Wars, and they all fight the DC Universe. This trailer has it beat.

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Utility-Backed Republicans May Have Gerrymandered Against One Democrat

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 10:55 AM PDT

Patty Durand reached her tipping point in 2019, when Georgia's Public Service Commission was considering a rate case that would have huge implications for energy bills for people in Georgia. Durand was president of an energy nonprofit in Atlanta, and the commission had invited her to present research on consumer…

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Fired Employee Claims Facebook Created Secret Tool to Read Users' Deleted Messages

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 10:50 AM PDT

How "forgotten" are your deleted internet posts anyway?

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Twitter Tests a New Feature That Lets You Co-Author Tweets

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 10:30 AM PDT

What's better than one person typing up pretentious hot takes on current events? Two people! Twitter is rolling out a new feature that will allow two users to co-author a tweet together, posting the tweet on both of their accounts simultaneously.

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Taking Out the Trash on the International Space Station Just Got a Lot Easier

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 10:25 AM PDT

Private space company Nanoracks has announced the successful first test of a new technology to get rid of trash from the International Space Station.

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Nope Set to Debut as a Universal Studios Hollywood Tour Attraction

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 10:15 AM PDT

After the success of Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions signed an exclusive deal with Universal Pictures as its home for future film and television projects—so it was only a matter of time before the genre powerhouse took up some real estate on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood.

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Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio Join Marvel Studios' Echo on Disney+

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 09:27 AM PDT

Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio have signed on for Disney+ series Echo. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the two stars of Daredevil will be making their official ensemble debut on the Marvel Studios television series starring Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez.

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This App Aims to Stop Kids From Sharing Naked Photos

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 09:15 AM PDT

A company in Japan is developing a smartphone app that would delete children's nude photos automatically from their phone. The app is being developed as a way to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and minors

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Kazuki Takahashi, Creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh Manga and Game, Dead at 60

Posted: 07 Jul 2022 09:00 AM PDT

Sad news as Kazuki Takahashi, the manga-ka behind the hit series Yu-Gi-Oh and its even more popular CCG, has died in what seems to be a tragic accident at the age of 60.

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