Every holiday season, I sit down and watch the classics. Films that fill me with joy and bring together friends and family. Films like It’s a Wonderful Life, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, Home Alone, A Christmas Story, and Die Har…
Lees meerio9 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 “Carbon Zero” by D. Thomas Minton. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGH…
Lees meerNintendo quashed its first live event of the new year and similarly postponed the tournament finals for two of its mainstay franchises due to a wave of “threats” targeting employees, spectators, and venue staff centered around an upcoming Splatoon 3…
Lees meerAngelina Jolie is setting up a return for Maleficent 3. Natalie Portman says she’d be open to a return to Star Wars. Iman Vellani shares her ideal villain for Ms. Marvel season 2. Plus, more looks at Netflix’s live-action Yu Yu Hakusho. Spoilers, aw…
Lees meerGreat things can come in small, slightly repulsive packages. Scientists in the Philippines have detailed the molecular secrets of Stichopus cf. horrens, a sea cucumber species that bears more than a passing resemblance to something else. Their findi…
Lees meerToday’s big Gemini AI announcement from Google was inevitably going to suck all the air from any other big Pixel product updates. However, amid all the talk of native AI on Pixel 8 Pros, Google is also dropping a big feature-rich Android 14 update f…
Lees meerOregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked Apple and Google to share this information with the U.S.…
Lees meerA woman’s medical exam turned into a literal pain in the butt, thanks to a poorly placed firearm. An adverse event report sent to the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year details an alleged incident where the woman was shot in the right bu…
Lees meerAs expected, HBO just confirmed that season two of The Last of Us won’t arrive until 2025. Which is certainly a long time but was mostly expected, since filming won’t begin until early next year. In the meantime though, fans of similar genre content…
Lees meerGoogle launched Gemini, its new supercharge AI model, on Wednesday, a technology that will touch on nearly every part of the search giant’s business. The company has spent the last year lagging behind OpenAI, its chief artificial intelligence rival.…
Lees meerApple may be done for the year releasing any new hardware, but fans will only have to sit tight for just a few months into 2024 for brand-new tablets and laptops. A new report claims that Apple will share details on new, more powerful iPads and MacB…
Lees meerIn just a few short days, Doctor Who will conclude its trio of 60th anniversary specials in a flurry of spectacle—a climatic battle, the death of its familiarly faced current hero, and their regeneration into a new era starting just a few weeks late…
Lees meerDisney+ subscribers may have already noticed a new addition to the carousel on the app’s home screen: along with Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, there’s now a link to access Hulu content. The two apps won’t officially merge until …
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Lees meerWith the actors’ strike now officially over, filming is once again up and running on Marvel’s next big movie, Deadpool 3. And just as was happening before the strike stopped production, photos from the set have revealed several potential spoilers an…
Lees meer23&Me admitted it lost 6.9 million users’ DNA in a hack, after initially reporting only 14,000 users were affected. If you’ve used 23andMe, there’s basically a coin-flip chance that your data was exposed. The company, however, updated its terms of s…
Lees meerWhen one of the biggest stars of a franchise dies, obviously that franchise is no longer going to be the same. Such is the case for the Fast and Furious franchise which, 10 years ago last week, lost one of its original stars, Paul Walker. Since Walk…
Lees meerThere’s good news for iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 users still holding off on upgrading to an iPhone 15. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 17.2 update will offer Qi2 wireless charging support — like on the iPhone 15 — to iPhones 13 and 14.Read more...
Lees meerFantasy author Holly Black returns to Elfhame, the world of The Stolen Heir, next year with The Prisoner’s Throne—exploring the popular character of Oak in the first novel written from his point of view. In io9's exclusive excerpt, Oak’s stuck behin…
Lees meerSpaceX is actively preparing for the third test of its Starship launch system, a mission that may feature the inaugural attempt at in-flight propellant transfer. This capability is essential for enabling deep space missions and is a crucial componen…
Lees meerGrinding coffee beans with a spritz of water can reduce static electricity, creating less mess and improving the taste of espresso, according to Oregon-based researchers who borrowed from the physics of volcanoes to design the experiment. The team o…
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