China Is Using Rockets to Control the Weather
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December 08, 2021
What do you do when you urgently need to improve a city’s air quality ahead of a major event? If you’re the Chinese government, the answer ...
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Twitter Tests Easier Way to Report Abusive Tweets
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December 08, 2021
Twitter is testing a new way of allowing users to report tweets that potentially break the social media platform’s rules. And it’s frankly ...
Guy Who Claims He Invented Bitcoin Loses $100 Million in Court, Calls It a Win
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December 08, 2021
After a week of deliberation, a Miami jury has cleared Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claimed to have helped invent Bit...
Razer’s New MagSafe Cooling Fan Brings RGB to Your iPhone, Because Why Not
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December 08, 2021
Leave it to Razer to turn your iPhone into a gamer’s dream. The gaming hardware maker’s latest colorful creation is the Razer Phone Cooler ...
Instagram Unveils New Features to Show Everyone It Really Cares About Teens’ Mental Health
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December 08, 2021
Instagram wants you to know it really cares about teens’ mental health and safety, despite everything you may have heard. In fact, it’s rol...
Chinese City Offers $1,500 to Residents Who Report Positive Test for Covid-19
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December 08, 2021
The city of Harbin, China has started offering 10,000 yuan ($1,570 U.S.) to anyone who proactively comes forward to report their own covid-...
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron Movie Is Back In Play
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December 07, 2021
Of course a third Venom movie is on the way. New Spider-Man: No Way Home footage gives a better glimpse at its multiversal menaces. A fo...
The R2-D2 Tamagotchi Is for Serious Star Wars Fans
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December 07, 2021
I’m a huge Tamagotchi fan ( Exhibit A , B , and C ), but after a week with the R2-D2 Tamagotchi, I realize I just spent $20 on something to...
10 Important Google Maps Settings You Probably Don't Know About
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December 07, 2021
Google Maps continues to get new features and updates more often than you’d think, and if you haven’t been paying attention, you might have...
White House Mocks Idea of Mailing Every American Free Covid-19 Tests
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December 07, 2021
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea of mailing out free covid-19 tests to every American household on Monday, in just the...
MyCryptoWallet Collapses and Leaves Bitcoin Traders Stranded: Report
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December 07, 2021
MyCryptoWallet, an Australia-based cryptocurrency exchange that allowed users to buy and sell coins like ether and bitcoin, has collapsed a...
Monday, 6 December 2021
Life360, the Company Buying Tile, Is Purportedly Selling the Location Data of Millions of Families and Kids
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December 06, 2021
Life360, a popular tracking app that bills itself as “the world’s leading family safety service,” is purportedly selling location data on ...
The Batman's Penguin TV Show Will, Unsurprisingly, Bring Back Colin Farrell
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December 06, 2021
Batman’s world is expanding, and its star power is rising. A few months back , news broke that Warner Bros. was developing a show centered ...
Devin Nunes Joins Trump's Shady Tech Venture Just As It's Under Federal Investigation
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December 06, 2021
Donald Trump’s effort to launch a MAGA-centric tech firm to rival the likes of Google and Facebook landed a new CEO on Monday. It also dis...
Star Wars Hunters Looks Way More Fascinatingly Weird Than It Should
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December 06, 2021
Star Wars ’ current canonical era—where the series is bigger and more expansive across film, TV, books, comics, and video games than ever, ...
UK Scientists Are Testing a New, Minimally Invasive Weight Loss Surgery
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December 06, 2021
Researchers in the UK are beginning an important clinical trial of a relatively new type of weight loss, or bariatric, surgery. The minimal...
James Cameron’s Unmade Spider-Man Movie Would Have Been Spectacularly Generic
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December 06, 2021
James Cameron’s Spider-Man . It’s a phrase film fans have heard and thought about for years . The idea of one of the greatest blockbuster f...
Sharks ‘Amassing’ on the East Coast Is Totally Normal, Uprising Not Imminent
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December 06, 2021
If you visited the Ocearch marine animal tracker in the last week, your eyes might have been drawn to the eastern seaboard of North Americ...
Founder of Massive Robo-Text Service Accused of Running Secret Spying Operation: Report
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December 06, 2021
One of the top executives of a gargantuan texting contractor has been accused of running a secret surveillance business, the likes of which...
Google's Pixel Watch Just Leaked, and My Anticipation Is Now Dangerously High
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December 06, 2021
As a longtime Android user, I’ve spent the better part of a decade on the sidelines of an entire product category, awaiting a wearable that...
Cat People's Supernatural Transformations Made Female Desire the Ultimate Transgression
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December 06, 2021
While we sometimes mistakenly think of old Hollywood as being a relatively chaste place (compared to the modern film industry), where the ...
Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic
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December 06, 2021
The world dumps some 17.6 billion pounds (8 billion kilograms) of plastic into the ocean every year —and now, you can check out how all tha...
The Expanse Season 6 Is Almost Here—Where Did Season 5 Leave Off?
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December 06, 2021
In just a few days, the sixth and final season of Amazon’s beloved sci-fi series The Expanse will premiere. This new season is only goin...
Leaked TikTok Doc Reveals Its Obvious Secret to an Addictive Feed
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December 06, 2021
Among the ongoing cavalcade of lawmakers and laypeople concerned about whether social media algorithms might be rotting their user’s brains...
Marvel's Shang-Chi 2 Is a Go From Director Destin Daniel Cretton
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December 06, 2021
Disney is all in with Destin Daniel Cretton . The co-writer and director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has just signed an e...
Controversial Assisted Suicide Pod Cleared for Use in Switzerland
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December 06, 2021
Assisted suicide booths, a longtime fixture of sci-fi, may soon be a thing in Switzerland. Swiss outlets report that the manufacturer of a...
Doctor Who Brought It All Together... For This?
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December 06, 2021
Doctor Who ’s latest season has come to an end with the conclusion of Flux , a storyline that started off weird and found little footing a...
Kevin Feige Says Charlie Cox Is the MCU's Daredevil, But What Does That Mean?
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December 06, 2021
The upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home tells the story of how Peter Parker and Doctor Strange accidentally mess up their reality by breakin...
9 Photos of Indonesia’s Apocalyptic Volcanic Eruption
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December 06, 2021
A massive eruption at Mount Semeru rocked East Java, Indonesia, this weekend. The volcano started erupting Saturday, sending a thick cloud ...
Clearview AI's 'Search Engine for Faces' Set to Receive Patent
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December 06, 2021
Clearview AI, the notorious facial recognition company which has partnered with over 2,400 law enforcement agencies across the U.S, is abo...
300 Giant Cockroaches, Tarantulas, and Scorpions Found in Luggage at Columbian Airport
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December 06, 2021
Airport police in Columbia thwarted a pair’s attempt to leave the country with hundreds of unauthorized critters. Late last week, governmen...
The New Matrix Resurrections Trailer Declares War
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December 06, 2021
We just got a new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections less than a week ago , so getting another new trailer today can only be... déja vu...
Chinese Rover to Investigate ‘Mysterious Hut’ Spotted on Far Side of Moon
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December 06, 2021
An intriguing object that appears cube-shaped has attracted the attention of scientists working on China’s Chang’e 4 mission on the far sid...
The Boys-iverse Expands Yet Again With the Animated Series Diabolical
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December 06, 2021
Amazon Studios has gone boy crazy! Er, Boys crazy! First the streaming giant confirmed a live-action spin-off show set at “America’s only...
Apple's 2022 Lineup Said to Include Rugged Apple Watch and AR/VR Headset
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December 06, 2021
Chip shortages and declining demand are complicating things for Apple, but these won’t stop the company from launching a range of new pro...
A Message From Your New Editor
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December 06, 2021
Hello, readers of io9! As you became aware last week, io9's wonderful managing editor, Jill Pantozzi, ascended to a good place of her o...
Explosive-Powered Nutcracker Obliterates Every Festive Snack
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December 06, 2021
‘Tis the season for treats like candy canes, figgy puddings, and bowls overflowing with nuts ready to be cracked open. As far as Shane Wigh...
Updates From Batgirl, The Last of Us, and More
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December 06, 2021
Jada Pinkett-Smith returns to The Matrix in new Resurrections footage . The latest Scream team look back on Ghostface’s legacy. A famil...
Keychron's Q1 Is the Perfect Introduction to Mechanical Keyboard Modding
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December 06, 2021
As I’ve been using the Keychron Q1 , I keep thinking to myself: Where was this mechanical keyboard when I was first attempting to build my ...
What Will Smartphones Be Like in 10 years?
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December 06, 2021
If you’d asked a panel of experts 10 years ago what smartphones would look like in a decade, you’d have gotten all kinds of wild responses....
Trump's Shady Tech Company Raises $1 Billion, According to Serial Liar
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December 06, 2021
Donald Trump’s new tech company has raised $1 billion from investors, according to a press release from the former president and a report f...
Sunday, 5 December 2021
Thousands of Honeybees Stared Down Spain’s Cumbre Vieja Volcano. They Won
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December 05, 2021
Tens of thousands of honeybees in Spain’s Canary Islands can now add “survived a volcano” to their bucket list. Well, since they’re bees, w...
Spotify Pulls Content of Hundreds of Comedians Fighting to Get Royalties for Their Written Work
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December 05, 2021
Although some of us might forget since we’re too busy laughing, comedians, like songwriters, write content to entertain us. There’s a diffe...
Doctor Who Wants to Ring In the New Year with Some Daleks
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December 05, 2021
Having just brought back those Weeping Angels a few weeks ago, Doctor Who is ringing in 2022 by calling in some old(er) foes in the form ...
Come Talk Your Doctor Who Hopes, Dreams, and Fluxes in the Season Finale Discussion Zone
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December 05, 2021
We’ve only had six weeks in the TARDIS this time around, and at last: Flux is about to come to its final end. Come talk about Doctor Who ’...
Spider-Man: No Way Home's Villainous Trinity on Returning to Their Evil Roles
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December 05, 2021
Since it was first reported nearly a full year ago , one of the big things on everyone’s mind in regard to Spider-Man: No Way Home are its...
Spider-Man and The Rock Join Fortnite, Because Why the Hell Not at This Point
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December 05, 2021
It’s a shame that Nintendo used the tagline “everyone is here!” for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, because it may be more apt for Fortnite . ...
Morbius' First Clip Won't Sate Your Desire for Blood
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December 05, 2021
It’s been a little to figure out just what kind of vibe that Morbius is going for. Is it a tragic tale of a doctor desperate to save his l...
Saturday, 4 December 2021
Facebook Messenger Is Coming After Your Money
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December 04, 2021
Although Facebook Messenger’s entry into personal finance isn’t new, I’ve never quite managed to think about it as a payments platform. It...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Trailer Offers Up a Multiverse of Magnificence
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December 04, 2021
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse arrived in theaters three years ago, it shattered expectations of what superhero movies, both live ...
The Animation Guild's Contract Negotiations Get Delayed to 2022
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December 04, 2021
This past October saw the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) threaten to go on strike for better residuals and p...
Raised by Wolves 2's Trailer is Gorgeous and Just Creepy as Hell, Man
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December 04, 2021
Back when HBO Max was getting its feet off the ground in 2020, one of its big shows at the time was Raised by Wolves . Though some found Aa...
