Brace yourself for the terrors of the Upside Down from Stranger Things and the clicker-infested post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood. io9 recently took a lights-on tour of both highly antici…
Lees meerFew filmmakers could ever, or would ever, release their new film without any promotion. But few filmmakers are Hayao Miyazaki who released his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, in Japan this summer without so much as a still image, let alone a tra…
Lees meerOn August 17, there was an update on the Gen Con Card Heist. The persons of interest in the case—TJ Dunbar and Pearson Giaume—had been contacted by the police, according to a Tweet posted on X (formerly Twitter). The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police…
Lees meerNew Yorkers kicking back with beers and burgers this Labor Day weekend could have an unexpected guest hovering over their backyards. Starting Friday, the New York Police Department says it will dispatching drones to monitor potential disturbances at…
Lees meerThe threatened Pearl River darter (Percina aurora) has not been recorded in its namesake river for 40 years, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. But now, the service is attempting to reestablish the itsy-bitsy vertebrate in its native wat…
Lees meerAn outbreak of meningococcal disease in Virginia has sickened dozens of people and killed at least five, local health officials reported this week. Though severe cases are typically rare, the state has seen a noticeable increase over the past year. …
Lees meerSony finally has a date for its so-called “Remote Player” that’s definitely not a handheld console. The $200 PlayStation Portal, the company’s new Wi-Fi-only streaming device, is set to hit player’s hands on November 15th, and now prospective player…
Lees meerIn order to contact its interplanetary spacecraft, NASA relies on an array of giant radio antennas spread across different parts of the world. The trusty communications network has been transferring data back and forth for more than 60 years but its…
Lees meerLenovo introduced its first Windows gaming handheld device today, the Legion Go. The Steam Deck-like mobile console runs standard PC games on its compact display and has a pair of Nintendo Switch-like removable controllers. It also joins a few other…
Lees meerLenovo now has its own handheld gaming machine, called the Legion Go. Similar to the Steam Deck and Asus Ally, it plays PC games on the go. This version adds a unique twist in that its side controllers can pop off, much like a Nintendo Switch.Read m…
Lees meerPlaying full-featured PC games in the palm of your hand has long been a dream for PC gamers. Yes, there were expensive specialty machines that could do it, or you could try streaming to a handheld device via a cloud gaming service like GeForce Now, …
Lees meerTwo things are really shaking up Hollywood these days: labor unions and Taylor Swift. Thursday morning Swift announced that she was entering the fall movie season by releasing a nearly three-hour film based on her blockbuster Eras Tour. The news sen…
Lees meerMeta’s Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like entity tasked with reviewing Facebook and Instagram’s most contentious content moderation conundrums, is taking on a case involving a bizarre and unpleasant mashup: a Nazi Squidward meme.Read more...
Lees meerMeta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models. Read more...
Lees meerHow perfect of a match was Harrison Ford’s stunt double on the set of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? The stunt double could literally unlock Ford’s phone with Face ID. This is just one of the fascinating, but not always essential, facts we e…
Lees meerStudents, teachers, and vintage TV screencappers, the Chrome browser has a new feature that makes taking screenshots of scenes easier than before. Google used a blog post about helpful classroom tools to subtly announce the ability to copy a frame f…
Lees meerNASA’s trusty Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured images revealing a fresh crater on the Moon’s surface. This crater is suspected to be the impact site of the ill-fated Luna 25 mission, Russia’s first lunar attempt in nearly five decades…
Lees meerThe Disney Lorcana trading card game arrived with a massive splash at Gen Con this year, with people staying in line overnight to get booster packs. The high demand continued after the convention, and now a Ravensburger spokesperson tells io9 that “…
Lees meerSurgeons at New York University have reportedly reached another milestone in making pig-to-human organ transplants a reality. They now claim to have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney that has survived inside a human body for six weeks…
Lees meerYou can now include the Church of Scientology alongside big tech firms like Apple and tractor makers John Deere for groups that have opposed the right to repair.Read more...
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